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The coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on all healthcare workers, but perhaps none more so than those in the Filipino community. Almost one-third of all American nurses who have died of COVID-19 since January are Filipino – including men and women who immigrated from the Philippines or were born in the US. This is … Read more
A hipster Filipino restaurant which provided almost £50,000 of taxpayer-funded food to Matt Hancock’s civil servants has been driven out of business by the government’s Covid lockdown. Despite fulfilling ten orders worth thousands each from the Department of Health in the early weeks of the pandemic, Bong Bongs Manila Kanteen in Hackney, east London, was crippled … Read more
Myleene Klass has hit out at wealthy middle class families for the way they talk about their Filipino members of staff. The star, who has a Filipino mother and Austrian father, admitted she is ‘shocked’ when she hears acquaintances talking in ‘derogatory’ terms about their South East Asian nannies. The 42-year-old said she has confronted friends in … Read more
Two more frontline workers from the Philippines have died after contracting Covid-19. Rizal Manalo, a nurse at a Welsh hospital, and Remigio Cabansag, a housekeeper at a London care home, both died after contracting the deadly virus. They are understood to be the 32nd and 33rd Filipino workers to have died during the pandemic. Of … Read more
Here are the verified the names of 23 Filipino workers within the UK health and care services who have died with coronavirus. John Alagos, nurse The 27-year-old nurse treated coronavirus patients at Watford General Hospital. His mother, Gina Gustilo, told the Mail on Sunday he fell ill during a 12-hour shift, but did not leave … Read more
Twenty nine people of Filipino heritage are believed to have died from covid-19 in the UK, including a Grenfell tower survivor. With the UK death toll now standing at 15,464 one community particularly hit by the devastating virus appears to be those from the Philippines, many of whom were working within the health service. Eighteen … Read more
‘I begged the paramedic, but they left’: Husband of Filipino nurse, 50, who worked for NHS for 18 years tells how ambulance crew refused to take her to hospital… nine days before she died of coronavirus after he drove her himself Amor Padilla Gatinao was a nurse at St Charles Hospital in west London Her … Read more
A doctor who lost a friend and fellow healthcare professional to coronavirus has called for the UK to recognise the contribution of migrant workers after the pandemic. This comes after Filipino NHS workers have died after contracting coronavirus, including Sister Leilani Dayrit. Mr Salah Hammouche is a former colleague of Ms Dayrit and suggested that … Read more
Tributes have poured in for a Filipino nurse described as a ‘ray of sunshine’ by her friends, family and colleagues after she died of coronavirus. Leilani Dayrit, 47, worked as a nurse at St Cross Hospital in Rugby, Warwickshire, and died on April 7. She leaves behind her husband a daughter, who described her as … Read more