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Generous Mail readers have stepped in to help raise the £2.3million needed for the oak portico, donating an incredible £65,500 in just two days. It takes the total already raised by St Paul’s to more than half a million pounds.
Backing the campaign, Sir Simon said NHS hospitals had treated 400,000 seriously ill patients with Covid-19 – which has claimed the lives of 127,524 across the UK to date.
‘Nurses, doctors, and countless other staff have witnessed first-hand the terrible toll this virus has inflicted,’ he said.
Never met her baby daughter
Salina never found out the name of her daughter, pictured with her father Abdul Bangura
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By Miles Davis
image captionLiam Meyer with his father David, who died with Covid-19
On the evening of his father s funeral Liam Meyer launched a group to help other families whose lives had been ravaged by Covid-19.
His father, David, died with Covid-19 aged 62 on 29 March 2020 leaving Mr Meyer, his mother and four older sisters.
As he came to terms with the difficulty of dealing with grief in isolation in the middle of a pandemic, he resolved to do something to help other people.
His response to personal tragedy was to set up the support group Alone Together which has now grown to about 700 members around the UK and internationally.