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The tragic last WhatsApps sent by the teacher who was scared of being at school I’m fighting all I can. I just need some help.
Updated Don t you dare give up , Steph Coleman WhatsApped her sister.
On the other end of the phone, Donna Coleman was lying in an intensive care bed at Blackburn Royal Hospital, having begun to show symptoms of Covid-19 a few weeks earlier.
When the 42-year-old first tested positive for the virus her family were worried but they expected her to pull through. She was young, in good health and she had always been a fighter.
‘She’d achieved so much’ . Donna Coleman. Illustration: Paul Ryding/The Guardian
Donna, 42, was a devoted and popular member of the teaching staff. Yet at the height of the second wave, working conditions left her terrified of doing the job she loved
Tue 27 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT
The joke went: it was impossible to get Covid at Burnley College. The virus didn’t exist there. All through September, October, November and December 2020, as more and more people came down with Covid yet the further education (FE) college stayed open, Donna Coleman
would make this gag to her sisters, Steph Coleman, 38, and Vicki Coleman, 45. She spoke to them on the phone every day. “It was a running joke,” Steph says. “‘Who’s come down with Covid now?’”
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