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| UK coronavirus live news: minute's silence to commemorate key workers who have died | UK coronavirus live news: minute's silence to commemorate key workers who have died |
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| Tribute to take place at 11am as the reported death toll for frontline workers rose to 134 | Tribute to take place at 11am as the reported death toll for frontline workers rose to 134 |
| Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said the Government has distributed more than a billion items of PPE. | |
| Speaking to Nick Ferrari on LBC, the Health Secretary said: | |
| When asked if he would wear reused PPE that was originally designed as single-use on future visits to hospitals, Hancock said: | |
| Online grocery sales are expected to grow by around a third during 2020, due to the “seismic impact” that Covid-19 is having on people’s shopping habits, PA Media reports. | |
| The online grocery market is forecast to grow by 33% in 2020 to reach an estimated value of 16.8 billion, up from 12.7 billion in 2019, market research agency Mintel said. | The online grocery market is forecast to grow by 33% in 2020 to reach an estimated value of 16.8 billion, up from 12.7 billion in 2019, market research agency Mintel said. |
| The big jump follows four years in a row of slowing growth. In 2019, growth fell to a historic low of just 2.9%. Mintel estimates the market will be worth 17.9 billion by 2024, growing by 41% over the five-year period. | |
| Nick Carroll, associate director of retail research at Mintel, said: | Nick Carroll, associate director of retail research at Mintel, said: |
| The son of a doctor who died of coronavirus after warning Boris Johnson about a lack of protective equipment has spoken powerfully on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning. | The son of a doctor who died of coronavirus after warning Boris Johnson about a lack of protective equipment has spoken powerfully on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning. |
| Intisar Chowdhury, the 18-year-old son of Abdul Mabud Chowdhury, a consultant urologist at Homerton hospital in east London who died after contracting Covid-19, called on the government to apologise to all the families of healthcare workers who had died during the pandemic. He said: | |
| The 18-year-old’s father urged the prime minister to ensure every NHS worker was protected in a direct plea on Facebook last month shortly after being taken ill with Covid-19. Following the 53-year-old’s death on 8 April, his son said he was glad that the issue was now getting the attention it needed. | |
| But asked about the government announcement of £60,000 for every family of a healthcare worker who has died as a result of the disease, he said: | But asked about the government announcement of £60,000 for every family of a healthcare worker who has died as a result of the disease, he said: |
| He added: | He added: |
| Good morning if you are joining us in the UK, I’m Alexandra Topping and I’ll be starting the uk coronavirus liveblog this morning. | Good morning if you are joining us in the UK, I’m Alexandra Topping and I’ll be starting the uk coronavirus liveblog this morning. |
| Here are a roundup of today’s key stories | Here are a roundup of today’s key stories |
| The UK’s coronavirus frontline has switched from hospitals to care homes, according to sector leaders who have dismissed Boris Johnson’s claim that the virus has been “wrestled to the floor” as premature. | The UK’s coronavirus frontline has switched from hospitals to care homes, according to sector leaders who have dismissed Boris Johnson’s claim that the virus has been “wrestled to the floor” as premature. |
| A minute’s silence will be held across the UK later to commemorate the key workers who have died with coronavirus. Prime minister Boris Johnson, who returned to work on Monday, will join the tribute, which starts at 11am. | |
| Grieving families of NHS and social care workers who died after contracting coronavirus in the course of their duties will be entitled to a £60,000 payment, ministers announced on Monday as the reported death toll for frontline workers rose to 134. | Grieving families of NHS and social care workers who died after contracting coronavirus in the course of their duties will be entitled to a £60,000 payment, ministers announced on Monday as the reported death toll for frontline workers rose to 134. |
| Ministers have held a series of high-level meetings with trades unions and business leaders amid fears that millions of people will be too fearful to return to work as pressure intensifies on the government to publish a path out of the national lockdown. | Ministers have held a series of high-level meetings with trades unions and business leaders amid fears that millions of people will be too fearful to return to work as pressure intensifies on the government to publish a path out of the national lockdown. |
| The first minister of Wales has said he is ready to move the country out of lockdown earlier than the rest of the UK as he demands more contact from ministers at Westminster. | The first minister of Wales has said he is ready to move the country out of lockdown earlier than the rest of the UK as he demands more contact from ministers at Westminster. |