Nurse given free flat after leaving home to protect parents from coronavirus

A nurse has been allowed to stay in a flat for free as he helps with the coronavirus pandemic.

Callum Philips, 27, was looking for a new home after he was forced to leave his parents house last week because they’re in an at-risk group.

Philips, who works as a staff nurse in the Accident and Emergency department at Peterborough City Hospital, admitted he was very lucky to be given a newly renovated flat by property company Activ Group.

‘One of my friends saw this post on Facebook about a flat going to NHS staff, so I applied and got messaged back the next day,’ he said.

‘I thought I might have left it too late as the post had been up a few days when I saw it.’

Philips is now able to work knowing he will not pass Covid-19 to his parents.

He added: ‘It’s a bit difficult [at work] at the moment.

‘Some days are better, then some are quite hectic. 

‘This sort of thing has never happened before to our department, but we have a good to and we are all pulling together.

‘When I say that, I don’t just mean the doctors and nurses, I mean the porters, the radiographers and the cleaners as well.’

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Meanwhile, another 596 people have died in hospitals after contracting coronavirus, taking the UK death toll to at least 16,060, the Department of Health (DoH) has confirmed.

Today’s jump in deaths is significantly lower than yesterday’s increase of 888, but death figures tend to drop at the weekend due to delays in fatalities being registered.

The toll was updated after England recorded another 482 deaths. 

Scotland reported ten deaths, while 41 were recorded in Wales and Northern Ireland recorded one more death.

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