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A “dedicated and loving” nurse who contracted coronavirus has died five weeks after first being placed on a ventilator.
Onyenachi Obasi, 51, had been working as a health visitor and nurse, and her family said she “gave her life doing what she loved”.
Her niece Ijeoma Uzoukwu told PA Media:
We are just heartbroken. She was really loving, really sweet and a really cute person.
She was a good example of unconditional love and just loved everyone. She was so giving and always had an ear – she took people as they were.
She loved her job, but that is what caused her to fall ill in the first place.
Obasi, who had been living in Barking and Dagenham, had no underlying health conditions and told her family that she felt she had a duty to work, and help, during the pandemic.
However, a few days after caring for a Covid-positive patient, she fell ill herself before eventually being admitted to hospital.
Her niece said:
Any normal situation I would go and see her, and be by her side. But because of the lockdown, we weren’t able to do that, and that was really hard for our family.
Obasi was placed on a ventilator for five weeks and was slowly recovering before she caught an infection. She died in the early hours of 6 May at Queen’s hospital, in Romford.
Uzoukwu has organized an online fundraiser to help provide for her 19-year-old son, who is vulnerable and was dependent on her.
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Anti-racism campaigners have staged a physically-distanced demonstration outside a Manchester petrol station where police used a Taser on a man in front of his distressed young son.
A group of about 15 people gathered at a petrol station forecourt in Stretford, Manchester, where the incident took place on Wednesday night.
Mobile phone footage widely shared on social media showed an altercation between a black man and two white police officers.
The man is seen standing next to a marked police car and puts down his crying son before moments later he falls to the ground as a Taser is fired by one of the officers.
Among the protesters at the event staged by Stand Up to Racism on Saturday was Paul Davidson, a minister at the Church of God of Prophecy.
I have told PA Media:
I am here because this news has outraged black people nationally. We are obviously keen to find out what the details are and whether there are other circumstances we haven’t learned from the immediate clip.
But if the immediate clip is anything to go by then people have questions to answer and we should expect answers as a community.
This sort of behavior should not be expected by anyone in a civilized society.
Greater Manchester police has voluntarily referred the matter to the Independence Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).
Read more about the incident here:
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More potential migrants have been spotted at Dover as the huge increase in crossings since lockdown was imposed continues.
Pictures taken at the busy trade port show people wearing face masks being processed by officials, following reports of large numbers of people seeking to migrate to enter Britain on Friday.
A humanitarian charity said it was little wonder that so many people were risking their lives to cross the dangerous Dover straits because of “awful conditions” in French refugee camps. The pandemic “has made a bad situation life-threateningly worse”, Care4Calais said.
The Home Office has yet to confirm how many migrants have arrived in the past two days. The department has only confirmed that, “Border Force is currently dealing with a number of ongoing small boat incidents off the Kent coast,” on Saturday.
Earlier this week, the home secretary, Priti Patel, acknowledged that a recent increase in the number of migrant boats making the dangerous crossing of the channel ws linked to the lockdown.
Since lockdown was announced in Britain on 23 March, at least 609 migrants have been intercepted by UK authorities and brought ashore, according to data gathered by the PA Media news agency.
This is more than half of the entire total for 2020, which stands at at least 987. And these figures do not include crossings on Friday or Saturday, which the Home Office has so far refused to disclose.
Clare Moseley, founder of Care4Calais, said:
It’s little wonder people living in France’s refugee camps are desperate to make this dangerous crossing, given the awful conditions they face there.
Coronavirus has made a bad situation life-threateningly worse. People are squeezed into tiny areas, they can’t social distance, and the support they relied on for survival is drastically reduced.
These people are fleeing terrifying situations in some of the most dangerous parts of the world. They aim for the UK because they want to be safe.
Many have family or other connections, and others know our language and want to integrate and contribute. Now more than ever, we need to give them a safe and humane way to have their requests for asylum fairly heard, that’s the way to end chaotic and dangerous channel crossings once and for all.
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Good morning and welcome to the UK coronavirus live blog. The next steps in Britain’s lockdown plan are becoming clearer after the government indicated it would reopen garden centers, encourage commuters to use bikes, allow outdoor exercise more than once a day, and potentially quarantine foreign visitors.
Ahead of Boris Johnson‘s “roadmap” speech at 7pm tomorrow, the Times (paywall) reports that he is likely to announce a mandatory 14-day quarantine for all travelers into Britain’s ports and airports, including Britons returning from abroad, as part of measures aimed at avoiding a second peak. People arriving in the UK would have to self-isolate at a private residence, potentially having to provide an address at the border. The new restriction is expected to take effect at the end of this month.
The shadow foreign secretary, Lisa Nandy, said:
It’s something that we’ve been asking ministers to clarify for weeks now. I raised it with the minister for the fifth time on Thursday because it’s caused real confusion.
[Britons who were abroad] have been brought back in relatively large numbers and many of them are telling us that they have no information or advice given out about what they should be doing when they get home.They travel back from the airport on public transport, they go back to their families and they’re worried that they’re putting their families and other members of the public at risk, and some of them are coming from parts of the country where we are seeing an increase in infection rates, and so they’re really worried about it, the wider public are really worried about it, and for weeks we’ve had mixed messages being briefed out of government.
The trade body Airlines uk said the government needed “a credible exit plan with weekly reviews to ensure the restrictions are working and still required”. However, the Airport Operators Association’S chief executive, Karen Dee, added the move would be“ devastating ”for the aviation industry and the wider economy:
If quarantine is a necessary tool for fighting Covid-19, then the government should act decisively to protect the hundreds of thousands of airport-related and travel-related jobs across the UK.
Throughout the day I’ll be bringing you all the latest developments on the pandemic. If you would like to get in touch with a story or suggestions, please feel free to do so – your comments are always welcome and apologies in advance if I can’t reply to all of you.
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