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As Wales coronavirus death toll passes 5,000 people, we are sharing some of your tributes to those who have died with Covid-19 during the pandemic.
Cheryl Saunders
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Cheryl Saunders, from Abercarn in Caerphilly county, spent her whole 40-year career working in the NHS as a medical secretary in respiratory medicine, first of all in Caerphilly Miners Hospital and later at Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr in nearby Ystrad Mynach.
media captionAs the Covid death toll passed 5,000 in Wales, families have been sharing stories of the people behind the numbers
She still worked in respiratory medicine at the start of the pandemic, but was forced to stop working in the summer after being diagnosed with advanced metastatic renal - or kidney - cancer.
The stories of those who died with coronavirus in Wales
The oldest is 96, the youngest just 27 these are some of the faces and human stories behind the devastating numbers of the coronavirus pandemic
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From young to old, families from across Wales have lost loved ones during the coronavirus pandemic
The people who died with coronavirus this year will scar families, friends and colleagues long after the pandemic abates.
Among those who died include health and care workers who risked everything to care for patients in need, public transport workers unwittingly exposed in one of the most dangerous lines of work at the start of the pandemic, elderly people denied their retirements, people in ethnic minority communities most vulnerable to the disease and many more.