A South African nurse working for the UK’s national health service (NHS) who died after contracting the new coronavirus was planning to return to her home country next year.
Josephine Peter had worked as an NHS nurse for 18 years, including on the frontline on wards treating those infected with the new virus, at Southport Hospital, in Merseyside, in the north of England.
Her family in South Africa, who had been eagerly awaiting her return to Dunnottar, near Johannesberg, when they got news that she had become seriously ill after becoming infected with the new virus.
Peter had worked for the NHS for years, and had volunteered to work on COVID-19 wards when Britain’s outbreak first began.
Despite losing her when they were anticipating her return to South Africa, her daughter says she doesn’t regret her working for the NHS in the UK during the new virus pandemic.
