A front line nurse fighting the coronavirus has to make the heartbreaking decision to leave her three young children to help save lives.
Emma Murphy, 35, said there is a high chance she will leave her family home for fear of passing Covid-19 to her children, Molly, seven, Jack, five, and Lucy, who turns three at Easter.
The brave mum, who works in A&E, and her husband Joe, a social care worker, must decide who will move out of the family home in the coming days.
Emma, a clinical nurse manager at the Emergency Department of Mercy University Hospital in Cork, Republic of Ireland, said it is the calm before the storm and fears the worst is yet to come.
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