A former Linwood High School pupil has become the first paramedic to die in Scotland of Covid-19.Robert Black passed away at a Glasgow hospital on Saturday after battling the deadly virus for two weeks.The 51-year-old medic grew up in Elderslie and attended Linwood High before moving to Campbeltown in Kintyre with his wife Catherine.He leaves behind children Lorna and Andrew.Described as a “giant among men”, Robert’s death has devastated his friends at the Scottish Ambulance Service.He is the first ambulance crew member to have died of the virus and his death adds to the six NHS staff and five members of the social care workforce who have died of Covid-19 in Scotland.Robert Pollock, secretary of GMB Scotland’s ambulance branch, said: “It is
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