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Heartwarming moment hospital staff sing to intensive care staff to lift spirits

Maasstad Ziekenhuis/Twitter
Maasstad Ziekenhuis/Twitter

A hospital has shared a heartwarming video of doctors and nurses singing "you'll never walk alone" to their intensive care unit colleagues battling the coronavirus outbreak.

The video, posted on Twitter by Maasstad Hospital in Rotterdam, shows hospital staff and ambulance workers walking to a set of doors which divide them from the intensive care unit where patients with Covid-19 are treated in quarantine.

The group of medics start sway their arms to the famous song 'You'll Never Walk Alone' by Gerry & The Pacemakers, before their colleagues in intensive care join in on the other side of the doors and sing it back to them, finishing with a round of applause.

Piers Morgan, who has been championing UK healthcare workers in their battle against the virus, posted the video on Thursday night, saying: "Love this!"

"This just goes to show: we are here together and we are doing this together," Carla van Zuijlen, spokeswoman for Maasstad Hospital told Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad.

Hospital staff said the idea to sing to each other came about when they heard about a plan for 183 radio stations across the world to play the song at the same time.

As of Thursday, the Netherlands had more than 7,437 cases of Covid-19, with the death toll standing at 434.

It comes as thousands of people in the UK took part in a mass round of applause for NHS staff and key workers on the frontline of the coronavirus crisis on Thursday.

The Clap For Carers initiative saw residents from all corners of the country applauding workers and carers from doorsteps, windows and balconies at 8pm.