Continues to improve and he has been taking short walks in hospital. In new york, a mass grave as the city tries to deal with the rapidly growing number of dead. Queuing forfood in calais we report on the migrants in camp there searching for supplies. And bringing the outdoors indoors, how charities are trying to connect people with nature using webcams to help Mental Health and in sport on bbc news, the head of the League Managers Association Says professional football should not restart in england until all players have been tested for coronavirus. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Almost 9000 people in the uk have now lost their lives to coronavirus in the past five weeks. The latest daily death toll has risen by a record 980 people thats higher than spain and italys worst daily death tolls. And that number does not include people who have died from coronavirus in care homes or in the community. It brings the total number of deaths in hospital to 8,958 at the end of a
A Good Friday Service in Notre Dame Cathedral almost a year it went up in flames. And bringing the outdoors indoors for lockdown how charities are trying to connect people with nature using webcams to help Mental Health. In bbc news, the head of the Managers Association said football should not restart in england until all players have been tested for coronavirus. Good evening. Almost 9000 people in the uk have now lost their lives to coronavirus in the past five weeks. The latest daily death toll has risen by a record 980 hospital people. Thats higher than spain and italys worst daily death tolls. And that number does not include people who have died from coronavirus in care homes or in the community. It brings the total number of deaths in hospital to 8,958 at the end of another week of tragic news for thousands of families across the country. Today has been the third day in a row in which the government has announced close to 1000 deaths in a single day. Meanwhile, despite fresh cla
The Archbishop of Canterbury has piled the pressure on Boris Johnson to launch a public inquiry into the coronavirus crisis as he said the time for an independent probe must be coming close .
Justin Welby said a formal investigation into the handling of the pandemic should focus on lessons to be learned .
He also stressed the probe should be very independent and very wide-ranging .
He made the comments during a visit to the National Covid Memorial Wall in central London.
Mr Johnson has guaranteed there will be a public inquiry into the coronavirus crisis but he is yet to set a timetable for one to be held.
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THE Archbishop of Canterbury has said he saw “reasons to be hopeful for the year ahead” despite the grief of the pandemic in his New Year’s message. The Most Reverend Justin Welby reflected on his experience volunteering as an assistant chaplain at St Thomas’ hospital. The former Bishop of Durham said while 2020 had seen “tremendous pain and sadness”, he said there was hope in how people had cared for each other, from giving comfort in hospitals to wearing masks. In his message, which will be broadcast on BBC One at 12.35pm on January 1, he said: “This chapel is at the heart of Guys and St Thomas’ in central London – one of Britain’s largest and busiest hospitals.