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Frontline staff FAMILIES who died from the coronavirus will receive payments of £ 60,000 as deaths in the UK reached 21,061.
It occurs when Secretary of Health and Social Care Matt Hancock announced that 82 NHS workers and 16 social care staff are among the deaths in the UK.
“I feel a deep sense of personal duty that we must care for loved ones,” Hancock said at the Downing Street press conference tonight.
“Today, I can announce that the Government is establishing a life insurance scheme for the NHS and front-line colleagues in social assistance.
“Families of staff who die of coronavirus in the course of their essential front-line work will receive a payment of £ 60,000.”
It occurs when Boris Johnson declared that Britain is winning the first battle against the coronavirus, but warned of the danger of a second spike.
The prime minister said there were no immediate plans to lift the blockade as he headed to the nation this morning on his first day back to work since recovering from Covid-19.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has also announced a new small business support scheme, which will be eligible for loans of between £ 2,000 and £ 50,000, backed by a 100% government guarantee.
These include billionaires Peter Hargreaves, Michael Spencer, and Phones4u founder John Caudwell.
Spencer said: “We should start to relax the blockade as soon as reasonably possible and allow the economy to start moving forward.”
Steve Morgan, the former head of homebuilder Redrow, said: “Actually, we are in danger that the medicine, if you want to call the shutdown, is more harmful than the cure.”
The latest figures show that deaths from coronavirus in the UK increased by another 329 as the number exceeds 21,000.
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