A nurse in Liverpool has died after testing positive for coronavirus.
Liz Glanister, a staff nurse at Aintree University Hospital, passed away on Friday night, according to the Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The Trust's chief nurse Dianne Brown said: “It is with great sadness that I can confirm that Liz Glanister, a long-serving staff nurse at Aintree University Hospital, sadly passed away at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital on Friday after being tested positive for Covid-19.
“All our thoughts are with Liz’s family at this time and we offer them our sincere condolences.
“Liz will be sadly missed by all those who knew and worked with her.”
At least 11 NHS staff - three nurses, five doctors, one midwife and two healthcare assistants - have now died after contracting the virus.
On Sunday, a hospital in Harlow, Essex, announced the death of midwife Lynsay Coventry, 54.
Nurse Areema Nasreen, 36, died just after midnight on April 2 in intensive care at the hospital in Walsall where she had worked for 16 years.
Aimee O’Rourke, 39, also died at the hospital she worked at – the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, Kent, on Thursday.
Healthcare assistant Thomas Harvey, 57, a father of seven who worked at Goodmayes Hospital in east London, died at home on March 29 after feeling unwell for several days.
Another healthcare assistant, Glen Corbin, 59, worked at the Park Royal Centre for Mental Health in Harlesden, north-west London, for more than 25 years.
Amged El-Hawrani, an ear, nose and throat consultant with University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, died at the Glenfield Hospital in Leicester on March 28.
Professor Sami Shousha, 79, an honorary professor of histopathology at Imperial College London who had worked at UK cancer research laboratories at London’s Hammersmith and Charing Cross hospitals since 1978, died on April 2.
Dr Habib Zaidi, 76, a GP in Leigh-on-Sea for more than 47 years, died in intensive care at Southend Hospital, Essex, on March 25.
Dr Alfa Saadu, 68, who had returned to work from retirement, died on Monday while being treated for Covid-19 at the Whittington Hospital in north London.
Adil El Tayar, 63, a renowned transplant surgeon, died at West Middlesex University Hospital in Isleworth, west London, on March 25.
