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Rebekah Vardy donates £10,000 to buy 2,000 sets of scrubs for medics battling the coronavirus pandemic

By Rebecca Davison for MailOnline

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Rebekah Vardy has donated £10,000 to buy 2,000 sets of scrubs for medics battling the coronavirus epidemic.

The wife of Leicester and former England star Jamie made the pledge anonymously.

But the 37-year-old has been applauded for her generosity after her name came to light. 

A wonderful gesture: Rebekah Vardy has donated £10,000 to buy 2000 sets of scrubs for medics battling the coronavirus pandemic

Kindness: She had made his donation anonymously to do her bit for the NHS, simply signing it off as ‘RV’

She donated the money to the Scrubs For Leicester campaign launched by junior doctor Nicki Lygo and nutrition doctor Jim Stewart.  

Nicki then tweeted Rebekah and wrote: ‘Thank you doesn’t go far enough. Amazing generosity. Thank you so so much.’ 

According to Leicestershire Live, the campaign was launched on April 1 and raised £1,000 on the first day. 

Lovely: Rebekah had donated the money to the Scrubs For Leicester campaign launched by junior doctor Nicki Lygo and nutrition doctor Jim Stewart

On April 2, Jim had tweeted Rebekah asking for a retweet to raise the campaign’s profile, and the number shot up all of a sudden.

They received a £10,000 donation from a supporter who simply called themselves  ‘RV’, later revealed to be Rebekah Vardy.

Dr Lygo had said: ‘It is an incredible amount of generosity, we were aiming for £10,000 and now we’re above that and growing.

Dr Nicki Lygo had said: ‘It is an incredible amount of generosity, we were aiming for £10,000 and now we’re above that and growing’

Giving back: She had taken to Twitter to thank Rebekah publicly for her support 

‘But we would love to have continued support.’

The site reports that Dr Lygo had wanted to do something to help after being self-isolated due to an underlying health condition. 

She said: ‘[She was] ‘frustrated and felt absolutely terrible that [she] was not on the frontline with [her] colleagues.’ 

She continued: ‘We knew that it is a difficult climate to be asking for money, which is why our biggest plea is for fabric donations.’ 

On Tuesday morning, it was reported that there were 51,608 confirmed cases of people suffering from the coronavirus in the UK alone. 

There have so far been 5,373 deaths recorded, with a worldwide death toll of 74,806.  

Her love: Rebekah is married to footballer Jamie Vardy (pictured in March)

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