A few positives

All we seem to hear at the moment are depressing figures and forecasts in the media but there are some reasons at least to be positive.

Millions of people in the UK impeccably observing the stay at home rule and social distancing.

Millions of people have not got and will never get the coronavirus.

Thousands and thousands of people who have had coronavirus (many who have had a severe form of the virus) have made a full recovery.

Thousands maybe millions of people may have had the virus, recovered and never even known that that the mild symptoms they had were linked to the virus.

I do not wish to downplay the seriousness of the situation and any additional deaths are an absolute tragedy but maybe it's not all doom and gloom although you'd never know that by the way the media are approaching the situation.

IF 35 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE HAD IT AND DIDN'T NOW THEY HAD IT AND GOT OVER IT THAT JUST LEAVES ANOTHER 35 MILLION TO HAVE IT WITH A 1% DEATH RATE, THAT IS HORRENDOUS AND WOULD CRASH THE NHS.

Doesn’t quite work like that, when it gets to about 60% immunity virus transmission drops dramatically and cases are much fewer.

IF 35 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE HAD IT AND DIDN'T NOW THEY HAD IT AND GOT OVER IT THAT JUST LEAVES ANOTHER 35 MILLION TO HAVE IT WITH A 1% DEATH RATE, THAT IS HORRENDOUS AND WOULD CRASH THE NHS.

come off it... IF half the population have had it...you think it sensible to think the half that have not had it would ALL have it worse ?
btw almost 1% of our population die every year...550,000 people

The food delivery service Deliveroo says it will make half a million meals available to NHS staff for free during the coronavirus crisis.

The London-based company has already received pledges of 350,000 free meals from partner restaurants to provide to frontline workers.

Pizza Hut is offering 300,000 meals, while Itsu and Lewis Hamilton’s plant-based Neat Burger restaurant have also made donations.

Meanwhile, a campaign to provide hospital staff with hot meals backed by actors Matt Lucas, Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory has received over £400,000 ($497,000).

A similar campaign called Meals for the NHS has raised more than £250,000.