Nurse uses Ebola experience to help in the fight against coronavirus

A nurse who helped tackle the Ebola outbreak in Africa is using the skills he learnt there to fight coronavirus in the UK.

David Anderson from Braunston-in-Rutland was deployed to Sierra Leone in 2014 to assist with the world's worst Ebola outbreak.

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He's now using his expertise at the new Nightingale hospital in Manchester.

Our correspondent Peter Bearne has been talking to him.

Mr Anderson returned from preparing South Africa for its' Covid-19 response to take on a role as Director of Quality at IPC at NHS Nightingale Hospital, North West.

The 51-year-old nurse works with a charity called UK-Med which responds to humanitarian emergencies. He believes that the lessons medics have learnt will play a crucial part in helping the NHS deal with COVID-19.

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