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 went to a family funeral in lockdown - and it was the most uplifting thing I ve done for months
Funerals are very different thanks to Covid, but as our writer found, that doesn t make them any less meaningful
18 January 2021 • 12:00pm
Funerals remain one of the only occasions during which people from different households or support bubbles can come together
Credit: Karwai Tang/WireImage
Chances are, if you happen to see someone making a long trip across the country these days, they’re going to a funeral. As it stands, funerals and events related to a death remain one of the few occasions we’re allowed to travel long distances, stay overnight, or spend any time in close proximity with anyone outside of our households and support bubbles.
Victoria Young
CONCORD â More than 40 people spoke at Thursday s Concord City Council meeting in favor of the proposed racial equity committee.
The meeting, which had in total 108 attendees watching, was scheduled to hear a vote on creating the Concord United Committee. But due to council concerns that the petition to create the committee needed further vetting, the vote was postponed to February s meeting.Â
Council member Andy Langford, who wrote the Concord United Committee petition, said the city manager and city attorney had already given 10 suggested edits that will allow the committee to be effective.Â
While the committee s petition is being edited, all Concord residents signed up to speak about the committee were heard Jan. 14.
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