Coronavirus live news: UK to send 20m vaccine doses to developing countries; China reports six-week high in cases

UK will send doses by end of year, Boris Johnson to tell G20 leaders in Rome; China records 59 locally transmitted infections

Inspired by the AIDS Memorial Quilt, which her mother worked on in the 1980s, a teenager in California has been stitching a quilt over the last 18 months to honour and remember people lost to Covid-19.

Madeleine Fugate started the memorial quilt in May 2020, then 13, as a seventh grade class project. She encouraged families in Los Angeles, where she lives, to send her fabric squares representing their lost loved ones, the Associated Press reports.

“I really want to get everyone remembered so that families can heal and represent these people as real people who lived,” she said.

“It would be amazing to see that happen, but we’re still technically fighting the war against this virus,” she said. “We’re not there yet, so we just have to keep doing what we’re doing. We are the triage. We’re helping stop the bleeding.”

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