The Home Secretary Priti Patel chairing 10 Downing Street daily media conference Saturday 11th April 2020. Image: LMMNews screen grab from Downing Street digital video.
Death rate in this country is now horrendous with daily rate of dying more than in Spain and Italy.
Projections suggest at least another 10,000 people will lose their lives with their families, friends and colleagues grieving.
A further 917 coronavirus-related hospital deaths have been reported in the UK
It brings the total number of deaths to 9,875.
A further 917 coronavirus-related hospital deaths have been reported in the UK
It brings the total number of deaths to 9,875https://t.co/B8D3eIeX52 pic.twitter.com/mM4efjW983
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) April 11, 2020
Journalists in all news organisations are being contacted by health workers to complain that Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is not available in enough numbers, of the right kind and where it is needed.
Home Secretary Priti Patel chaired the Downing Street daily media conference and apologised for this situation.
Home Secretary Priti Patel says she is “sorry if people feel that there have been failings” in the government’s delivery of PPE to frontline NHS health workershttps://t.co/kwYJZkGb8J pic.twitter.com/5ikaD6HgtO
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) April 11, 2020
The Home Secretary says while ‘total crime has dropped’ in the UK ‘criminality continues to adapt.’
She highlighted fraud, child abuse and domestic violence as areas of concern during the UK’s lockdown.
With nearly one thousand people dying every day, the media at all levels have a challenge to convey the humanity and suffering of their grieving families and measure in some way the impact of their loss on society.
A midwife originally from Hong Kong. A hospital cleaner who became a nurse. A retired village GP.
The government says 19 NHS workers have died with coronavirus – here are some of their storieshttps://t.co/xKR0wogRiB
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) April 11, 2020
The profession of journalism has been endeavouring all over the world to explain the extent of this global tragedy in terms of individuals and their desperate circumstances:
Liver patient Shahjahan’s family feared the worst when a New Delhi public hospital told her to leave because her bed was needed in a #coronavirus unit
She died next day, one of dozens of seriously ill patients missing out on vital care https://t.co/IBxz1XKKZ4 pic.twitter.com/BtIDQ3gQbB— AFP news agency (@AFP) April 12, 2020
The number of coronavirus deaths in the USA has now reached 20,000 which is the highest in world.
The quarantine and personal protection needed for funerals means they are sparsely attended.
For people with no estate and family the disposal of their bodies means the management of mass grave facilities.
U.S. coronavirus deaths top 20,000, highest in world exceeding Italy: Reuters tally https://t.co/Bx0YcKYNYv pic.twitter.com/8yn40kb1lK
— Reuters UK (@ReutersUK) April 11, 2020
Clutching flowers, candles and photos, New York hospital workers paid tribute to colleagues who have died from the coronavirus since the beginning of the epidemic that has ravaged the city with a modest ceremony in the freezing cold https://t.co/SNpGipcs52
— AFP news agency (@AFP) April 11, 2020
Christians around the world are celebrating Easter Sunday where their prophet, Jesus, is being remembered for overcoming and conquering death despite his crucifixion.
In the UK Church of England churches, and churches and chapels of other denominations have been closed.
Worship has become digitally distanced and is now online.
The Archbishop of Canterbury will be delivering his Easter Sermon today digitally for the first time from his kitchen table:
As most religious services are now online, the doors to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem are closed:
#Coronavirus #COVID19
At the doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in Jerusalem’s Old City.
📷 Gali Tibbon #AFP pic.twitter.com/rxoOOLC6LP— AFP Photo (@AFPphoto) April 12, 2020
The Queen has recorded a special message for Easter, one week after her television broadcast to the nation last weekend.
Her message was recorded at Windsor Castle and she spoke of light overcoming darkness, and the hope that Easter symbolises.
The Queen speaks of light overcoming darkness, and the hope that Easter symbolises, in a special message recorded to mark the Easter weekend. pic.twitter.com/fTFCOSVBtT
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) April 11, 2020
There have been reports in this morning’s Sunday press of how close the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, came to dying from COVID-19.
Members of the cabinet were saying prayers for him.
St Thomas’ hospital had been told to expect him on Thursday before his admission.
They were surprised to see him clapping for them from his doorstep in Downing Street that very evening.
When he eventually did agree to go in, there was a moment when it was ‘touch and go.’
In a matter of hours he was taken into Intensive care and his doctors considered putting him on a ventilator with the prospect that only one out of two coronavirus patients in such a position emerge alive.
Boris Johnson says he ‘owes his life’ to NHS staff after coronavirus treatment https://t.co/QmjeupSFDe
— The Independent (@Independent) April 12, 2020
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