A woman's goodbye letter to her dying grandmother was read to her by a carer just days before she died.
Dementia sufferer Peggy Grainger, who had coronavirus symptoms, died two days after hearing granddaughter Gemma's letter.
Lockdown restrictions meant her family missed her final moments on April 13.
Instead, carer Laura Dunn-Green was filmed at the 86-year-old's bedside at Philia Lodge Care Home in Peterborough, fighting back tears as she read out the note.
In the letter, Gemma apologised for not being able to be with Grandma Peggy and told her "you will always be with us in our hearts".
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She said Peggy had helped make her family's lives "so full of love and happy memories for us to treasure forever".
Referring to Peggy's late husband, Gemma added: "We know he has been waiting for you but don’t let him start ordering you around, its your turn for him to wait on you."
Laura told ITV News she was honoured to do the reading, in which she was covered in PPE, and admitted she was devastated at losing the home's first resident to the virus.
She said since the start of the pandemic, visitors have not been allowed to see residents, but "we’ve been there for them instead, so hopefully that was enough".
Gemma's letter also praised care staff over the three years Peggy had lived there before her death.
Laura said it was "nice to hear" but admitted the care home will "never be the same" after a number of recent deaths of popular residents.
Care homes notified the Care Quality Commission (CQC) of 4,343 deaths of residents in homes between April 10 and 24 in England.
The Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said it is "unreasonable" to be asked to apologise to bereaved families of coronavirus victims over the Government's handling of the pandemic's impact in care homes.
It is thought a third of the UK's deaths have occured in care homes, with the official toll in hospitals at 21,678.
Laura, who has only been at the care home 18 months, went on to say she moved in full-time after their first resident contracted coronavirus, in order to be with residents when they die.
"We weren't expecting some people to survive it but I wanted to be there so that they weren't alone," she said.
