Remembering Essex NHS staff who died after catching coronavirus | Clacton and Frinton Gazette
At least 246 frontline health and care workers have been identified after dying with coronavirus. But this figure is likely to be lower than the true number of workers who have died, as the names of some victims will not yet be in the public domain. In Essex we have seen doctors, nurses and paramedics lose their lives after battling the virus. Here we remember them. Dr Habib Zaidi Leigh GP Dr Zaidi was the first doctor in the UK to die after contracting Covid-19. He died on March 25, aged 76. Dr Zaidi, a GP at Eastwood Group Practice in Leigh, was described as a "hugely respec...