Tributes have been paid to three more NHS workers who have lost their lives with coronavirus.
Nurse Ruben Munoz, 49, had worked at the East Surrey Hospital for a decade.
He developed Covid-19 symptoms last month and went into self-isolation before being admitted to St George’s Hospital in Tooting, where his wife, Ester, is a finance officer.
She said: “He was such a tough man, he didn’t want to go to hospital but I knew that it was very serious. His condition rapidly declined. We last saw him in a FaceTime call in hospital.
“It’s heartbreaking. He was a doting father and loving husband. He was my hero. He loved the NHS and working as a nurse, it was his life. His colleagues and patients loved him, everybody did.”
Mrs Munoz said that she and her husband had been planning to celebrate his 50th birthday with a trip to Amsterdam and added: “Now he is dead and we cannot believe it. Please everybody listen and keep social distancing.”
There was also praise today for Amrik Bamotra, a radiology support worker at the King George Hospital in Ilford, who has also died with coronavirus.
Known to colleagues as “Bob”, he treated everyone “like his own family”, and leaves a wife, son and daughter, Jagjit Mehta, 37, who today told how she was allowed to pay him a final visit.
She said he had been “so proud to work for the NHS”, and died two days before his 64th birthday.
Ms Mehta told the Standard: “I went into hospital to see him, I had to put on PPE. He was in a bad way. He was deteriorating and it was important to see him.
"I showed him pictures and videos of my son. It felt like it was a goodbye when he said goodnight to me.
“It wasn’t long after I had left that I got a call from the hospital saying could I come back, I knew then he was already gone. I was lucky I got to see him for a last time.”
The father-of-two had gone into hospital after feeling unwell at home as he recovered from a heart operation. He had been struggling to breathe but had not been in intensive care when he died.
Meanwhile, Dr Krishan Arora, 57, who had worked at the Violet Lane Medical Practice in Croydon for 27 years, has also died after becoming ill with coronavirus symptoms. Dr Arora graduated from Cambridge in 1988.
Dr Agnelo Fernandes, GP borough lead for Croydon, said: “Krish was extremely well-liked and worked tirelessly to care for his patients and improve services for everyone in Croydon.”
Tributes were also paid today to bus driver Win Tin Soe, 61, who died with coronavirus in St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington.
He drove a No46 out of the Holloway garage and had moved to Britain from Burma many years ago.
His daughter Theai San, an NHS dental nurse, said: “He loved his job. He was a very dedicated family man as well as a hard-working fellow. People adored him.”
