A woman has shared the heartbreaking final messages she shared with her dad before he died alone during the Covid pandemic.
The Twitter user called Sonya, who uses the handle @sonyaphotoart, said her father was "stuck in a care home" and she was not able to visit him due to restrictions.
"My kids couldn't attend his funeral. I have 8 kids, only 15 people allowed," she continued.
"So while they partied and conducted affairs, I didn't get to say a last goodbye," she added.
It comes as WhatsApp messages were leaked last week with ministers and senior officials joking about locking up travellers arriving in the UK in quarantine hotels.
Sonya's dad died on May 19, 2020.
In her tweet, posted on Saturday evening, she included a screen shot of the final conversation she had with her dad a couple of days before he passed.
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They were both looking forward to meeting up again.
He told his daughter he'd been taking painkillers to ease his symptoms.
"I'll have to sleep for a while then get back to you, Sonya," he wrote in his final message, adding: "See you soon."
That was sent at just before 1.45pm on May 17.
The following night, Sonya said: "Goodnight dad xx."
But she never got a response.
The next day she wrote: "I know you won't read this, but I miss you already. I waited so long for you. I wish you had seen my messages last night. Find me again soon please xxx love you."
It comes as a doctor went viral last week after sharing his own heartbreaking WhatsApp messages describing the hospital chaos he was facing during the pandemic.
As of Sunday morning, figures show the official number of fatalities from the virus in the UK stands at 206,952.
The country was put into lockdown in March 2020 as initial cases began arriving - and the world struggled to contain the spread.
What followed was months and then years of rising death tolls, with the first vaccine approved for use in Britain in December 2020 leading to a major jabs drive.
NHS staff were thrust into the centre of the fight, working multiple shifts at a time as beds filled up and scores of patients succumbed to the bug each day.
The unnamed acute medicine doctor based in the north of England - who goes by @seahorse4000 on Twitter - yesterday shared text interactions with loved ones as they treated patients of heaving wards in 2020.
In one exchange they described how the situation was "a full blown disaster" and in another: "Everyone has died."
In one exchange from November 23 that year they said: "Man just ranted at me about how Covid is a hoax. Man in bed next to him literally dying of Covid!"
Later that same day, they said: "Awful news here tonight. Elderly couple both here with Covid found on the floor after two days."
They added: "So much Covid."
They said: "ITU is full, resp HDU is full, there are no beds in the hospital, everyone is waiting 14 hours in ED."
They then added: "I will see one at a time."
In another exchange, they said: "This is terrible. Looking at all the patients I saw over weekend.
"So many dead. Never seen anything like it."
They also told their parter to "hug them so hard" when she said she was in bed with their daughters.
