Boris Johnson yesterday backed plans for a national Covid memorial at St Paul’s Cathedral, telling the Commons it would be a ‘fitting place of reflection’. The permanent memorial in St Paul’s will feature an oak portico with the words ‘Remember Me’ engraved in several languages. Annette Allen, 60, began her fundraising with the Yellow Hearts To Remember movement after losing her father Ray Maskell, 88. The movement was founded by David Gompertz, who was widowed by the virus, with a simple idea – for the bereaved to display a yellow heart as an act of remembrance to those taken by the virus. His idea was for those who had lost someone to Covid-19 to put a yellow heart in a window of their home as an act of remembrance.

Source: Daily Mail May 13, 2021 00:21 UTC