Among members of the Filipino community to have died is Virgilio “Larry” Castro, 63, who survived the Grenfell Tower fire less than three years ago, the Guardian has learned. In evidence to the inquiry into the fire in which 72 people died, Castro told how he had lost many people he knew. Other Filipinos who have died include John Alagos, 23, who become the third UK nurse to die after caring for coronavirus patients and is believed to have become the youngest British medic to succumb to the virus. Other victims included Oscar King Jr and Elbert Rico, two porters at Oxford’s John Radcliffe hospital who died last weekend weekend. Leilani Dayrit, a clinical nurse sister at the hospital of St Cross in Rugby, died of suspected Covid-19 on 7 April.

Source: The Guardian April 17, 2020 19:00 UTC