By The Visual and Data Journalism Team
BBC News
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There have been more than three million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and nearly 90,000 people have died, government figures show.
However, these figures include only people who have died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus.
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Blackburn Cathedral and St Helens Rugby Ground are among the venues chosen to join the
As she cleaned the hospital in April, Karen was scared not for herself, but for her family. She and her husband, Mal, had moved into a caravan in Mal’s parents’ garden, while his mother was ill with cancer – and they stayed on after she died, to support Mal’s 80-year-old father, Malcolm. Mal, a hospital porter, was shielding because he has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and Malcolm senior was clearly vulnerable because of his age.
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Coronavirus has changed many people’s working lives for the worse. Many of us have been isolated from our colleagues; others have been made redundant by employers citing the costs of the pandemic.
In the NHS and in care homes, though, the pressures have perhaps been the most intolerable. Ten months of Covid-19 has left many healthcare professionals’ mental health at breaking point, according to Claire Goodwin-Fee.
The Frontline19 organisation she runs with fellow therapist Ellen Waldren has received more inquiries in the past week than it did in the whole of December.
The free service, which is funded by donations, is currently helping about 1,800 healthcare workers a week.
Here, in her own words, Claire explains the scale of the mental health problem she is witnessing.
image copyrightGetty ImagesI’m waiting for the headline that says: ‘Doctor takes own life because of the pandemic’. It is going to happen. If not today, it’ll be soon because they are on their knees – and they want people to
Six chemists have been chosen initially, with 200 more offering vaccinations in the next fortnight.
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