Miss England 2019 Is Giving Up Her Crown to Fight COVID-19 as a Doctor

Miss England 2019, Bhasha Mukherjee, has decided to hang up her crown and return to work as a doctor during the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.

The 24-year-old took a career break as a junior doctor after competing in the Miss World pageant in December 2019.

Miss England 2019, Bhasha Mukherjee, has decided to hang up her crown and return to work as a doctor during the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.

The 24-year-old took a career break as a junior doctor after competing in the Miss World pageant in December 2019.

Mukherjee told CNN she had to return from India from a charity trip when her colleagues at the the Pilgrim Hospital in Boston, England, started messaging her about the difficulties frontline workers had been experiencing amid the health crisis.

“I felt a sense of this is what I’d got this degree for and what better time to be part of this particular sector than now,” she shared. “It was incredible the way the whole world was celebrating all key workers, and I wanted to be one of those, and I knew I could help.”

Mukherjee returned to England on Wednesday and is currently in self-isolation as recommended by health officials before she can return to work.

“There’s no better time for me to be Miss England and helping England at a time of need,” she told the outlet.

As of Monday, there are at least 51,608 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the U.K., with 5,373 deaths.