Selhurst Park is now hosting a vaccination clinic to help protect the community against Covid-19. Image: jeffwarder. Image detail: Croydon NHS Selhurst Park stadium is now hosting a vaccination centre to help with ongoing efforts to roll Covid-19 vaccinations in the community. The Crystal Palace Football Club (CPFC) stadium has now become one of London s biggest coronavirus vaccine centres after opening its doors to people informed of their offer of the Covid vaccine by the NHS. NHS staff and volunteers, who said the new centre will now play a vital role in the fight against the virus, have taken over the Glaziers Lounge in the Main Stand.
At least 222 frontline health and care workers have been identified after dying with coronavirus.
Through tributes from loved ones and confirmation through sources such as local NHS trusts and other authorities, the PA news agency has confirmed the names of health and social care workers who have died after contracting Covid-19 since March 11 2020.
This chronological list contains people who were working in roles shortly before their deaths where they were likely to come into contact with patients.
The figure is likely to be lower than the true number of workers who have died, as the names of some victims will not yet be in the public domain.
27 January 2021
Crystal Palace have joined the wider footballing community in marking Holocaust Memorial Day by calling for the nation to ‘Light the Darkness’ this evening (27th January).
Footballers across the nation are calling on people to light a candle and place it safely in their windows at 20:00 GMT tonight, to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and stand against prejudice around the world.
Crystal Palace Football Club are proud to take part in the #LightTheDarkness national moment today.
On #HolocaustMemorialDay, light a candle and safely place it in your window at 8pm on 27 January. To remember, and to stand against prejudice in the world today. @HMD UKpic.twitter.com/Ir2n94LCRq
My perspective on visiting Auschwitz has actually changed since I ve become a father.
I was still a teenager myself when, having been brought into the squad for EURO 2012 after John Ruddy got injured, we had the opportunity to go there. Before flying out to the tournament, we d actually met two Holocaust survivors: Zigi Shipper and Sir Ben Helfgott.
They re incredible people, not only to have survived, but they have to carry with them everything that they saw and that they witnessed during that period of time. The stories they told us, of being stripped away from their families and things like that. while massively impactful, they felt a little hard to imagine, living as we do now. Meeting them sowed the seed for when we did go out there, to Poland.