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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jonathan McCambridge

Covid victim was ‘double-bagged like toxic waste’, daughter tells inquiry

PA Wire

An elderly victim of Covid-19 from Northern Ireland was “double-bagged like toxic waste” after her death, a public inquiry has heard.

Brenda Doherty, the daughter of Ruth Burke, also told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that, after her mother was initially admitted to hospital, her family were told by staff not to worry because the virus would be a “flash in the pan and gone by summer”.

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