Coroner Graeme Hughes concludes Gareth Roberts and Dominga David died of industrial disease.
"On the balance of probabilities, exposure more likely happened at work and infection happened as a result of that exposure," Mr Hughes told the inquest at Pontypridd Coroner's Court.Retired nurse Mr Roberts, who worked casual ward shifts, told colleagues he did not want to work on a Covid ward at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.
This was because the 65-year-old, from Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, cared for his grandson and had diabetes. The inquest was told when Mr Roberts and Ms David, 63, caught Covid, ward nurses in the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board only used PPE while directly treating patients.The court also heard also shift handovers took place in small cubicles where people did not wear masks.Mr Hughes concluded Mr Roberts and Ms David, who lived in hospital accommodation, concluded that they both died as a result of industrial disease.
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