Minute's silence for workers who have died in pandemic

A MINUTE’S silence will be held at 11am today in remembrance of workers who have died from Covid-19.

Around the country, NHS leaders will lead the tributes to frontline staff who have lost their lives: around 100 health and care workers have died as a result of the coronavirus.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will join the minute’s silence this morning.

April 28 has been marked by unions as a Workers’ Memorial Day since the 1980s ; it is the anniversary of the date the Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1970 came into effect in the USA. It became an international day of recognition in 1989.

This year, unions will focus on ’workers who have died with suspected or confirmed Covid-19 as a result of inadequate personal protective equipment’, said the TUC.