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A kind stranger has paid a parking ticket for an Adelaide nurse after she was hit with a fine during a night shift while treating patients in the coronavirus chaos.

Mother-of-two Jess Mullan took to Instagram to share her frustrations after completing her shift as a paediatric nurse and discovering she had been slapped with a $69 ticket.

But the exhausted healthcare professional’s luck soon turned when a stranger heard about her situation and paid the fine in full.

Ms Mullan shared a photo of the ticket with popular Instagram page, S**t Adelaide, writing: “With everything that is going on.. finished my night shift to come to a parking ticket. You have got to be f***ing kidding me.”

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The popular satire Instagram page then called out the City of Adelaide for handing out fines at 10.27pm on Monday night to hospital staff, calling them “true heroes”.

Response to the fine was unanimous, with many blasting the move as “disgraceful”.

“Lost for words. Proof that all they care about is money,” one said.

“What an absolute joke @cityofadelaide. Shame on you for cashing in on revenue in a time like this, and to the people who are helping us nonetheless,” another wrote.

“Surely this is a good time to let hospital staff park for free,” someone else chipped in.

However, within hours Ms Mullan’s plight caught the eye of a good Samaritan who paid the bill – and he was later publicly thanked by S**t Adelaide.

“This is why SA is so great. She didn’t ask, we didn’t ask... but @sohaibirshad a local photographer has paid the parking fine issued to a nurse with no strings attached – not all heroes wear a cape.”

Attached to the post was a photo of the receipt – which drew huge applause online.

“This is more what I’d like to see from Australians rather than brawling in supermarkets well done,” one remarked.

“WHAT A LEGEND,” another said.

While one wrote: “Just the kindness we need during these shi**y times.”

Australia now has more than 2300 coronavirus cases after NSW reported another record increase of 211, Victoria another 55 and Queensland another 46.

Total confirmed cases, based on a tally of numbers provided by each state and territory, now stand at 2369.

As of Wednesday morning there were 1029 in NSW, 466 in Victoria, 443 in Queensland, 170 in South Australia, 175 in Western Australia, 36 in Tasmania, 44 in the Australian Capital Territory and six in the Northern Territory.

Eight people have died — one in Western Australia and seven in NSW.

In Victoria, two people are currently in intensive care – one in their 30s and one in their 60s.

HERO MEDICS SHARE PHOTOS OF BRUISED FACES

Yesterday, British doctors and hospital staff began sharing photos of their injuries from working on the front line.

It follows a snap recently shared to social media by an Italian nurse working on a coronavirus ward which showed her face bruised from constantly wearing a face mask.

Taking to Instagram two weeks ago, Alessia Bonari posted a snap showing bruising around her eyes, nose and forehead that she claimed was caused by having to wear ill-fitting protective gear

In the caption, Ms Bonari said while she was often “afraid”, constantly tired and under enormous pressure, looking after people infected with the virus remained her top priority.

“I’m afraid to go to work. I’m afraid because the mask may not adhere to my face, or I may have accidentally touched myself with dirty gloves,” she said in her message.

“I am physically tired because the protective devices are bad, the lab coat makes me sweat and once dressed I can no longer go to the bathroom or drink for six hours.

“I am psychologically tired, as are my colleagues, who have been in the same condition for weeks.

“But this won’t prevent us from doing our job as we’ve always done. I will continue to take care of my patients because I am proud and I love my job.”

Ms Bonari continued her missive by asking anyone who may read the post to make an effort to stay inside as a way of containing the spread of the virus.

“What I ask anyone who is reading this post is not to frustrate the efforts we are making, to be selfless, to stay at home and thus protect those who are most fragile.

“We young people are not immune to coronavirus, we too can get sick … I can’t afford the luxury of going back to my quarantined house. I have to go to work and do my part. You do yours, I ask you please.”

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