Tributes paid to healthcare assistant who passed away on Christmas eve

Healthcare assistant Mariter Tarugo was given a socially distanced guard of honour by her colleagues. Picture: GoFundMe

Warm tributes have been paid to a 60-year-old healthcare assistant at St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin who passed away from Covid-19 on Christmas Eve.

Filipino native Mariter Tarugo, who lived in Dalkey, Co Dublin, worked on St Andrew's Ward in the hospital.