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The Year in Review continues with March and April. And so it all started. March and April were the first months of coronavirus restrictions across the UK, and few could have foreseen that they would continue in one form or another for the rest of the year.
Thursday, March 5, ‘Fundraising bid for Olivia’: A huge £60,000 fundraising campaign was launched to help three-year-old Olivia Wright to walk. The St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School pupil had bilateral cerebral palsy and spasticity which meant she was a full-time wheelchair user and required additional care. The target sum would help to fund selective dorsal rhizotomy surgery, a high-risk procedure which reduces muscle spasticity permanently. “Even if the operation isn’t successful, it is that transfer off equipment,” said mum Claire. “It is everything in life.”
The stories of those who died with coronavirus in Wales
The oldest is 96, the youngest just 27 these are some of the faces and human stories behind the devastating numbers of the coronavirus pandemic
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From young to old, families from across Wales have lost loved ones during the coronavirus pandemic
The people who died with coronavirus this year will scar families, friends and colleagues long after the pandemic abates.
Among those who died include health and care workers who risked everything to care for patients in need, public transport workers unwittingly exposed in one of the most dangerous lines of work at the start of the pandemic, elderly people denied their retirements, people in ethnic minority communities most vulnerable to the disease and many more.