Lockdown Looms: Reggie's Birthday Party

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Only five people would be allowed inside a mosque at a time. For Juma prayers, no more than 10 people should be allowed, it added. Mr Alexander, a teacher at an inner-city South London school, said: “I didn’t have a book that I could use to walk my learners through the Covid-19 pandemic and the strange new world around us: masks, social distancing, homeschooling, vaccinations, bereavements etc. Perhaps to Step 3, in May 2021, with a limit of six people meeting indoors, and the hospitality industry restricted to table service inside. Alexander recounts, “I had my own issues. I had issues in my family. I lost my uncle during the pandemic. This book was like therapy to me because some of the themes in the story are hope, determination, adapting to change, kindness, and these were skills and qualities that I wanted my pupils to gain, but they were also qualities I had to remind myself that I was capable of tuning into during that very difficult time for myself and my family.”

I RUV RINE!” My friend was concerned that he might be asking for medical assistance, until he realised that he was in fact passionately declaring: “I love wine.” He told The Daily Star yesterday that the success would depend on how effectively the measures were implemented. "In the past, we have seen such measures exist only on papers."

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I’m normally in bed by 10pm. This descent into madness started at 7.30 and was still going strong at midnight – I hazily recall a salmon being placed in front of me – when I informed the president of the society that if he didn’t let me speak, I might fall asleep. The mayor has clashed with regional authorities over the failure to reinforce the health system over the past six months. He said there are around 500 intensive care beds available across Campania, a region of 5.8 million people. Mr Thompson issued a rallying cry for fellow pub landlords to support each other during these “difficult times”. And in Wales nightclubs will close after Christmas, and social distancing and outdoor mixing is being strongly encouraged.

Many businesses are already in a very precarious position and forward financial support for employers and employees needs commensurate with the scale of restrictions imposed. Public and private offices would remain open on a limited scale, but the employees would not be allowed to leave the city where they work. Rally, mass gathering, and social programmes should be banned, it said.But the shutdown was not properly implemented, especially during the Eid festivals when tens of thousands people left Dhaka for their village homes. Besides, the garment factories were allowed to operate. These announcements have been made in a haphazard way and whilst we have seen some relief with the extension of the furlough scheme until December, this is only a short-term solution.

The important messages in the book are of kindness and resilience, patience, gratitude and adapting to change.This time needs to be used to enable mass test and trace systems and the development of a long-term strategy to dealing with this pandemic.

Although Banji had started writing other children’s books before, he felt compelled to finish Reggie’s story for his year 3 class – to whom the book is dedicated. There are six or seven people living in a space of around 30 sq metres,” said Father Salvatore Melluso, a priest at Caritas Diocesana di Napoli, a church-run charity. “It’s impossible for them to stay inside, let alone maintain a distance. These families are desperate and abandoned.” In Scotland, businesses are already having to take extra measures and the public is being told to limit gatherings to three households at a time.That may come after Christmas when the UKHSA predicts 250 cases will be in hospital – enough for a meaningful statistical comparison with the Delta variant. Alexander says, “I think more personally to me for what I've taken away from writing the book is that anything is possible because writing this book has changed my life completely. One minute I was teaching, the next minute, I was on the biggest news stations here: BBC News, ITV News, Sky News, Guardian Newspaper. It literally changed my life overnight.” Fertiliser, insecticide, food, essential goods, medical equipment, daily essentials, kitchen markets, restaurants, drug stores, hospitals and the media would also remain out of the purview of the shutdown.