Page 48 - Unity Candle News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

It could well reach 20,000 today and because that does not include deaths in care homes or the community, the realfigure is likely to be much higher. let's talk to our political correspondent nick eardley in our london newsroom. nick, a number of newspapers are carrying stories about the easing of lockdown restrictions, including when and how premier league football might return. how might that work? watch the official line on these stories? the government isn't really going into detail at the moment about what lifting lockdown would look like for the simple message that they want to keep the ...

From the 0aklands nursing home in hove to castletroy in milton keynes, and onto st ives lodge, on the outskirts of london, where six residents have died. five of them died from covid—19. 0fficialfigures have lagged behind the sad realities of those losses, but today's announcement suggesting a doubling of deaths in england in five days underlines the pace of what's been happening. at st ives, they hope they have now managed to fight off the virus. we have no patients, no residents with it and all of our staff have been tested since last week. and we still have a couple who are going to be te...

Bring a tissue because it was so upsetting to me to talk about this. >> reporter: anna's son, igor also managed to speak -- but it wasn't easy for him, or for anyone. they shared their grief that day, their memories -- but on another level they were also sharing a few suspicions. donna knew the odds. anna was probably killed by someone close to her. and that someone could have been at that very service, putting on a show. >> you know, the fact that somebody cries on the stand or at a funeral or so on and so forth, well, of course. i mean, if they've just committed a crime and-- and-- yes, they...

>> reporter: it was time to say goodbye, except for many of her friends, who were saying hello because many were meeting each other, even learning about each other, for the first time. >> there were all kinds of things in anna's life that she didn't tell anybody about. >> she did not. >> there were relationships that were not known by her closest friends. >> uh-huh. >> reporter: jerry says he didn't even know who anna's ex-husband was, until well after the service. >> he got up and talked about meeting her for the first time in -- i think in st. petersburg. and he started crying, and it wasn't...

We support our staff for whom the pressure is really extremely intense? there was uplifting news when connie, aged 106, left hospital in birmingham. she said she felt very lucky to have shaken off the virus. as we've been reporting, all residents and workers with symptoms will now be tested, along with anyone returning to a home from hospital. although care home providers welcome these plans, many say their calls for greater support in terms of staffing, training and specialist kit continue to be ignored, and this comes as one care home in staffordshire reported that 2a of its residents have d...