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Here are five things to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday morning. We will have another update on Sunday.
1. The three-tier system will be announced
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will make a statement to MPs on Monday giving details of the new restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus in England. A three-tier system is expected to see that areas face different rules depending on how quickly the cases spread. A letter from Johnson’s top strategic adviser to MPs in North West England tells them that “certain local areas are likely to face further restrictions.” Pubs and restaurants could be closed in parts of the North of England and the Midlands, and a ban on overnight stays would also be considered. The most severe measures would be agreed with local leaders beforehand before they are implemented.
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2. Covid Heroes Recognized on Queen’s Honor Roll
The Queen’s Birthday Honors Roll has been released and is dominated by frontline workers and volunteers who have assisted in the response to the pandemic. It is usually published in June, when the Queen celebrates her official birthday, but it was postponed to allow recognition of those who played crucial roles in the early months of the outbreak. Out of 1,495 recipients, 414 honors are for contributions to the coronavirus. They include Felicia Kwaku, pictured below, who received an OBE for her nursing services after championing the cause of BAME home nurses during the pandemic. Footballer Marcus Rashford, who helped secure the extension of a free school meal plan for kids, becomes an MBE, as does fitness trainer Joe Wicks, who led daily free exercise sessions while schools were closed.
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3. What is the cost of mental health for youth?
A growing number of psychologists, psychiatrists and child health experts believe that the needs of young people are being ignored in this pandemic. They say that children have suffered enough already and that they should be allowed to live normally. And they point out that what young people have been asked to sacrifice for others far outweighs their own health risk from the virus. It occurs when thousands of students are in forced self-isolation at universities, and thousands more children are missing school due to positive Covid tests in their midst. This follows nearly four months of interrupted education and canceled exams during the shutdown, leading to a stressful scramble for college places when grades were recalculated. They face an economy in recession and a future in which jobs are scarce.
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4. Grieving father donates plasma
A father who contracted the coronavirus from his daughter before she died from Covid-19 is donating plasma to help other people with the virus. Alan Mack, whose daughter Rebecca died in April, is part of a clinical trial of so-called “convalescent” plasma. The antibodies accumulated by people who have had the virus are expected to help others to recover. “I don’t want anybody, if possible, to go through what we had to go through,” Mack said. “There are so many people, I think, who just think it won’t happen to them, and it can be.” Rebecca, 29, who worked in the childhood cancer unit at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle and for NHS 111, had been isolating herself at home. He called an ambulance but died before he arrived.
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5. Quarantined portraits
A photographer has captured the lives of quarantined people as part of an online collaboration. He invited people to draw on the pictures he took of them and to write notes that revealed their thoughts. Doma Dovgialo said of her project, Portraits of the Quarantined Mind: “I often feel like a photograph just isn’t enough … I find the best way to visualize what someone else has been through is to allow them to become the main storyteller. “
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