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Nurse died of Covid 48 hours after negative swab test

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Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing A vulnerable nurse died of Covid 19 just 48 hours after a swab test falsely indicated she did not have the disease, an inquest has heard.

Sixty-two-year-old auxiliary nurse Karen Wilkes, passed away on April 21, 2020, and a post mortem examination conducted the following day revealed she did in fact have the coronavirus.

Area coroner for Manchester West Prof Alan Walsh had ordered a full investigation into concerns raised by the family that Karen, of Endfield Street, Pemberton, may have caught virus from a patient she had been caring for on the clinical decisions ward, adjoining the A&E department at the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan.

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