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The coronavirus pandemic has caused many of us to feel concerned and worried about what is happening.

It's hard to stay positive at such a time, however, staff at Basildon Hospital are playing their part in making people smile.

A video of nurses, support workers, doctors and other medical staff dancing on a ward at the Essex hospital has gone viral.

The idea came from Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, where they have asked people to film themselves dancing to be part of the end of their show this week.

When operating department practitioner Sandra Roberts heard that they were asking people to dance, she thought her team would be perfect.

Her colleague Lyn Roberts was up for the challenge, and even after a night shift, they grabbed the day team as soon as they came into work this morning, (Friday, March 20).

The team got together and filmed themselves dancing to Olly Murs' 'Dance with me tonight'.

Lyn uploaded the video to Facebook but was not expecting such a huge response.

She said: "I can't believe it.

"We were just goofing about and said lets do it. We are quite a fun crew really."

Lyn explained how her team are always up for having fun and like to make people's experience in hospital as positive as posible.

She said: "We are always doing stuff like that to try and cheer people up.

"We probably get a bit sillier when we are tired."

When they made the video, Lyn said they just wanted to make people smile - and that's exactly what they achieved.

She said: "We just wanted to make people smile.

"Everyone was smiling even the people who are really stressed at the moment.

"It was awesome, we were all smiling. We got something out of it as well.

"I would like to do something like this at every shift handover."

Lyn said that in a time where people are feeling sad, and there is a lot of negativity going aground, it felt nice to create some joy.

She said: "I was nice to see something positive out of all this.

"I just wanted to brighten people's days and make people smile.

"We can't keep up with the negative, if we do then it will just get everyone down."

Since Lyn posted the video on Facebook it has been shared thousands of times, including Olly Murs himself.

They have even been contacted by Ant and Dec's team.

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