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Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson announced that his brother died in hospital after suffering a severe Covid-19.
Posting on Twitter this morning, Mayor Anderson said his brother succumbed to illness at Royal Liverpool Hospital last night despite the best efforts of staff.
He said: “Despite the best efforts of the entire @LivHospitals ICU staff, my brother sadly died at 10:45 PM last night.
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“We want to thank the dedicated staff who risk their lives for us. Thank you all for your messages of love and support.
“Let’s come together and support each other and win this battle.”
The tragedy comes just five weeks after Mayor Anderson lost his other brother, Henry, to cancer.
Yesterday he announced that his brother was seriously ill and urged people to watch a video taken from inside the hospital’s intensive care unit and follow the rules on social distancing.
The heartbreaking video, shared by Liverpool City Council on Friday, uncovers the severity of the coronavirus crisis in Liverpool hospitals.
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It is displayed within a ‘red zone’ at the Royal Liverpool Hospital where nurses must wear hazmat suits and Covid-19 patients are hooked up to ventilators.
Mayor Anderson said: “Ten minutes ago, my sister-in-law, a nurse sister told me that my older brother, her husband, has Covid-19.
“He is at the Royal @LivHospitals in the ICU in very serious condition.
“Please watch the video, follow the rules and understand why we all have to fight the enemy #Covid.”
Today, a BBC Breakfast report also showed footage from inside a Covid intensive care room at the Royal, where staff warned that the hospital will face overwhelms if new coronavirus admission rates continue.
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Dr Tristan Cope, Medical Director of the Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “We are still very stretched, right now we are just about to get through it, but if admissions continue at current rates we will have to take more action and that could include stopping the cancer and also urgent surgery. “
Michael Jowitt, a patient recovering from Covid-19 after a three-day stay in intensive care, also told the BBC: “It’s not fun, it’s not fun at all. This is serious stuff. I thought on Sunday that I was going to see my creator.
“We just have to take a step back and see, yes, some of you are fine, but by God, if you get it and you’re one of the unlucky, then you’re talking about death, you’re talking about death.”
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