'I'm allowed to see Anthony!': Pregnant Sydney nurse reveals heartwarming COVID news

A pregnant Sydney nurse said she's "ecstatic" that she will now be able to visit her severely brain-injured husband in hospital, after being informed a week ago she could not visit him due to the current lockdown.

Maddie Morris, who cares for patients at Westmead Hospital in Sydney's west, was originally denied an exemption to visit her partner Anthony, who was hospitalised in February.

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Morris had been by her husband's side, caring for him since his injury, but was turned away from the ward once covid restrictions came into place around greater NSW.

Appearing on Ben Fordham Live on 2GB this morning, the nurse — who is pregnant with the couple's first child — revealed the good news.

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"I'm allowed to see Anthony!" she exclaimed, saying she was permitted to see her husband from Tuesday evening, but opted for a "precautionary COVID" test before.

"I'm going to head in at 10am today," she added.

Morris said she was "ecstatic" that NSW Health accepted her exemption application, after initially being denied one on the grounds that her situation did not qualify as an "extenuating circumstance."

The Sydney nurse told Fordham on Tuesday morning she had been a central figure to her husband's recovery, helping him "every step of the way."

She was told to stop visiting him a week ago.

"I've heard from nursing staff that he's refusing to eat food and not participating as well in recovery," she told Fordham last night.

In the heartwarming update, Morris called the news "well deserving" for Anthony.

"I can't wait to get to him," she told Fordham, adding her husband "probably won't realise" anything changed over the period due to the severity of his brain injury.

"But somewhere within him, he'll feel a sense of normality," she shared.

Morris shared her gratitude to NSW Health and the Westmead hospital.

"It was a big day, but we got the results at the end," she said.

"I've got the hospital to thank or Anthony's life."

NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant was asked about Morris' situation in a press conference on Tuesday.

"These decisions around access are made through the local health district and so I think it is most appropriate that those issues should be resolved given the specifics of each case," Dr Chant said.

"To reassure the community that there are risk assessment processes put in place and some protections to facilitate access to your loved ones in those sort of very special circumstances. I would be happy to look into that case."

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