Husband granted inquest into key worker’s Covid death

The husband of an NHS worker who died from coronavirus has won his battle to get a full inquest into her death after his wife was forced to work with recycled face masks. Hospital healthcare assistant Susan Ward, 61, tended to patients on a Covid ward without personal protective equipment, an inquest heard. Mrs Ward, from Orpington, Kent, continued to care for the sick three weeks after she became unwell, Southwark Coroner’s Court heard. Her husband David Ward claims she…