A doctor who died after contracting Covid-19 “touched so many lives” helping people, his brother said. Dr Irfan Halim, 45, who works at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital, fell ill on September 10 after collapsing on a coronavirus ward where he was working. The father of four died nine weeks later, unaware that his father had also died in September. Amir Halim told the BBC he would make sure his brother’s children knew “what a wonderful person he is”. To pay tribute to him, he said: “He was always so happy, so full of energy. Up until the day he passed a week ago, he was the same.”
