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Leaders at St Paul’s Cathedral last night praised the ‘overwhelming support’ shown by Daily Mail readers for the drive to create a new national memorial to Britain’s Covid victims.
Readers have given more than £115,000 towards the memorial since the Mail launched the Remember Me campaign to help build it at the weekend, smashing the £100,000 milestone in less than 72 hours.
The cathedral is planning a magnificent new entrance and chapel with screens showing a virtual book of remembrance immortalising the names and pictures of those lost to the coronavirus pandemic.
It is hoped the memorial – which will be open to those of any faith or none and will feature a grand oak portico engraved with the words ‘Remember Me’ – will become an important place of pilgrimage for generations to come.
Boris Johnson last night ‘wholeheartedly’ backed the Daily Mail’s campaign to help create a national memorial for Britain’s Covid victims.
As generous donations from readers continued to flood in, the Prime Minister led a chorus of cross-party approval for the drive to build a moving tribute at St Paul’s Cathedral.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he was ‘honoured’ to support the plan, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said it was a ‘fantastic idea’ and the SNP’s Ian Blackford and the Green Party’s Jonathan Bartley also pledged their support.
The idea is for a magnificent new entrance at the cathedral featuring a grand oak portico engraved with the words ‘Remember Me’, leading through to a chapel housing screens showing a virtual book of remembrance for those lost to the pandemic.
The morning after an ambulance had rushed me into Derriford Hospital in Plymouth with a dangerously low oxygen level, I was visited by a consultant and his entourage.
He looked at my notes and said: ‘Yes, you definitely have it and you now have two choices – you can stay here in this nice admission ward where you will almost certainly die; or you can be taken down to intensive care (ICU) where we will do all sorts of nasty things to you and you will have a 20 per cent chance of survival.’
This was in mid-March last year and I was one of the first people in the country to develop severe Covid-19 – and certainly one of the first of my age (then 83) to survive.
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