'I want to be with my wife': Heartbreaking photo shows doctor comforting elderly Covid-19 patient

'So I get close to him and I (ask) him, 'Why are you crying?'

Dr. Joseph Varon hugs and comforts a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit (Photo by Go Nakamura/Getty Images)

A photograph of a US doctor comforting an elderly Covid-19 patient whilst cladded in PEE has gone viral around the world.

Joseph Varon, a doctor treating coronavirus patients at a Texas hospital, was working his 252nd day in a row when a distraught elderly man in the Covid-19 intensive care unit stopped him in his tracks.