Today we lost a colleague, a saviour of lives, a hero. Today I lost a friend.

Friends in healthcare, doctors and nurses, and friends on the frontlines, please, look after yourselves and look after one another, as you would look after your patients. Give each other kindness, generosity, loyalty, openness, courage, and most importantly, friendship. Because, as I found out today, we simply cannot know how much time we may have left with one another.

Friends everywhere, please, please stay at home, please practice social distancing, please stay safe, especially this Easter. In doing so you will keep our friends fighting on the frontlines safe. If your efforts can help ensure this battle does not claim even one life more, then you would have won the war.