{"id":5322,"date":"2020-05-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=5322"},"modified":"2020-06-12T14:50:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:50:24","slug":"norman-austria-healthcare-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=5322","title":{"rendered":"Norman Austria, Healthcare Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":" <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Norman_Austria.jpg?w=810\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-750\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n <p><p>Norman Austria &ndash; a Healthcare Assistant at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB), Derby, England &#8211; passed away on 13 May 2020, due to COVID-19. Norman was 61 years old.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>A healthcare assistant at the Royal Derby Hospital is the latest NHS worker to have died after contracting coronavirus.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Norman Austria, 61, was described as a &quot;loved and respected&quot; colleague who brought a &quot;sense of calm&quot; with him to work.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>His death comes on a day when Boris Johnson told MPs that 275 healthcare workers had died in the UK from Covid-19 in what he called a &quot;deeply horrifying&quot; toll.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Originally from the Philippines, Mr Austria died on May 13, 2020, after several weeks of battling the disease in hospital.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Although he had only just joined the team on Ward 405, colleagues said Mr Austria was already &quot;a highly thought of&quot; member of staff.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>According to his colleagues, Mr Austria could often be found singing to his patients who always responded well to his presence.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Tributes to Mr Austria describe him as a &quot;gentle soul and a dedicated professional&quot; who will be remembered fondly by those who knew him.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.derbytelegraph.co.uk\/news\/derby-news\/norman-austria-royal-derby-coronavirus-4131529\">Derby Shire Live<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?page_id=303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Please help us in adding details.<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/p><p><\/p>\n \n \n<p><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norman Austria &ndash; a Healthcare Assistant at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB), Derby, England &#8211; passed away on 13 May 2020, due to COVID-19. Norman was 61 years old. A healthcare assistant at the Royal Derby Hospital is the latest NHS worker to have died after contracting coronavirus. Norman Austria, 61, was described [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[48,20,7019,13],"tags":[6601,6837,1051,114,5746,113,792,6710,6558,6709,1089,6224,6434,6435],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Norman_Austria.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9527,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=9527","url_meta":{"origin":5322,"position":0},"title":"Norman Jones, Cardiologist","date":"March 28, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Norman Jones \u2013 a Cardiologist, Former Cardiology Chief of the Trabattoni-Ronzoni Rehabilitation Center in Seregno, Como, Italy \u2013 passed away on 27 March, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. 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