A top New York City emergency room doctor who had been working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic has died by suicide, authorities said.

Dr Lorna Breen, who served as the medical director of the emergency department at New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in Manhattan, died Sunday in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she was staying with family, her father told The New York Times .

She tried to do her job, and it killed her, her father, Dr Philip C. Breen, told the Times.