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Jan. 26, 2021
More than 100,000 Britons have died within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test, official data showed on Tuesday, a grim new milestone as the government battles to speed up vaccination delivery and keep variants of the virus at bay.
Britain has the fifth highest toll globally and reported a further 1,631 deaths and 20,089 cases on Tuesday, according to government figures.
For nine months, Gordon Bonner has been in the “hinterlands of despair and desolation” after losing his wife of 63 years to the coronavirus pandemic.
Only recently did Bonner think he might be able to move on after sensing the spirit of his wife, Muriel, near him on what would have been her 84th birthday.
Covid-19 coronavirus: UK s tsunami of grief as deaths pass 100,000
26 Jan, 2021 05:20 PM
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By: Pan Pylas, Associated Press
For nine months, Gordon Bonner has been in the hinterlands of despair and desolation after losing his wife of 63 years to the coronavirus pandemic that has now taken the lives of more than 100,000 people in the United Kingdom.
Only recently did Bonner think he might be able to move on after sensing the spirit of his wife, Muriel, near him on what would have been her 84th birthday. I suddenly understood I had to change my attitude, that memories are not shackles, they are garlands and one should wear them like garlands around your shoulders and use them to communicate between the quick and the dead, the retired Army major said in an interview from his home in the northern city of Leeds. Grief is the price we pay for love.
‘I lost Dad to Covid in the first wave, and this is bringing it all back’
Sue Ayrton’s father died alone in hospital at the start of the pandemic. Now she s volunteering to help other bereaved families cope
Sue Ayrton at home in Lancashire, with a photo of her father Neville
Credit: Lorne Campbell
Some 78,500 lives have now been lost to coronavirus in the UK at the time of writing – and for each one, a family devastated by the particular cruelties of this disease.
Sue Ayrton is still traumatised by the loss of her father, Neville, who died alone in hospital during the tumultuous early days of the pandemic. Now, as we endure another deadly surge in cases, she is reminded of it every time she turns on the television.
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