Isolated but united in grief they came to mourn the loss of a beloved friend, colleague and doctor. Unable to attend the funeral due to social distancing rules, hundreds of people lined the streets of Bury to pay their respects to Dr Saad Al-Dubbaisi, who died fighting coronavirus on the frontline.
The 59-year-old dad-of-two died on Sunday at Salford Royal Hospital after being ill for five weeks. He's thought to be the eighth GP in Britain to die from Covid-19.
On Tuesday afternoon a funeral cortege followed by a procession of doctors' cars, lights flashing, made its way through his home town of Bury.
Outside Garden City Medical Centre in Holcombe Brook, where Dr Al-Dubbaisi worked as a GP for almost 20 years caring for generations of the
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