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During the first few minutes of the show, viewers could hear Piers coughing

This week marks 100 days since the beginning of coronavirus with more than one million cases globally reported

The Prime Minister was taken into intensive care at 7pm last night

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab spoke out about the lockdown exit strategy

Hundreds of rainbows have been appearing across Southport as defiant symbols of hope against the deadly Coronavirus pandemic. A huge rainbow arch made from balloons has appeared outside a hotel in Southport town centre; balloon pictures decorate the walls at Southport Hospital; balloon pictures drawn by children of emergency workers who are still going to school are now proudly displayed […] The post These stunning rainbows in Southport give us all hope we can beat coronavirus appeared first on Stand Up For Southport.

Police have been dropping off emergency food parcels to homes in Southport.  The initiative is thanks to Southport-based charity Light For Life, as it continues with its Care Not Covid campaign.  A police spokesman said: “Along with many of the volunteer groups that are providing support during the Covid-19 emergency, our North Sefton Local Policing hub at Southport have a […] The post Police deliver emergency food parcels to homes in Southport appeared first on Stand Up For Southport.

Children’s A&E at Ormskirk Hospital will be closed from 10pm until 8am, starting from tonight, and until further notice. Ambulance patients from the Southport and West Lancashire areas will be taken directly to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool. The measure is being taken to help staff at Southport Hospital and Ormskirk Hospital cope during the current coronavirus pandemic.   […] The post Ormskirk Children’s A&E nightly closure starts to help staff battle Covid-19 appeared first on Stand Up For Southport.

People are calling for phone charges at hospitals to be reduced after a woman was charged £11 for phoning her elderly Mum in Southport Hospital. Irene Simpkin said she called her  87-year-old mother Odile, who has been in Southport and Formby District General Hospital for almost a fortnight after suffering multiple pelvis and hip fractures in a fall. Visitors are […] The post £11 for phoning elderly Mum in hospital as calls made to cut charges appeared first on Stand Up For Southport.

China said it has recorded no deaths from the coronavirus in the last 24 hours. The country gave rise to the global pandemic and has suffered 3,331 deaths and 81,740 cases of Covid-19..

Dominic Raab will take charge of the Governments response to the coronavirus crisis after the Prime Minister was transferred to intensive care. Boris Johnson was admitted to intensive care on Monday after his Covid-19 symptoms worsened during the afternoon..

A recovered coronavirus patient has paid tribute to the medical staff who cared for him and said he wants people to know "they can survive this". Andrew Hodge, a father-of-two, spent six days in intensive care in an induced coma..

Cineworld bosses have deferred their pay packets for the past year after the company was forced to shut its entire portfolio of 787 cinemas..