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Dame Ruth May, Chief Nursing Officer for NHS England lays a wreath during a live-broadcast memorial event hosted by NHS Charities Together at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire to mark the third anniversary of the World Health Organisation (WHO) declaring a global Covid-19 pandemic
A VIGIL was staged in memory of workers killed by Covid-19 on Saturday — the anniversary of the declaration of a pandemic by the World Health Organisation on March 11 2020.
The vigil, outside the People’s History Museum in Manchester, was organised by Manchester Hazards, the workplace health and safety research and campaign group.
Edward Garner, of Manchester Hazards, said: “The weather was very miserable and against us, but this did not dampen the enthusiasm and desire of families to speak up about their family members who had died of Covid during this awful pandemic.
How can we claim to be human while our countries still support and defend the massacres in Palestine, asks HUGH LANNING
LYNNE WALSH tells the story of the extraordinary race against time to ensure London’s memorial to the International Brigades got built – as activists gather next week to celebrate the monument’s 40th anniversary