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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

Bereaved families withdraw support for UK Covid tapestry

Ekow Eshun, who is steering the Covid tapestry project
Ekow Eshun, who is steering the Covid tapestry project, hopes it will be a ‘lasting tribute’. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian

Britain’s Covid experience is to be woven into an official tapestry, following a tradition running from the Norman conquest to the D-day landings. But some bereaved families have already withdrawn their participation.

Stories from the pandemic will be captured in warp and weft by artists in a work commissioned by the chair of the UK-wide public inquiry into the pandemic, Heather Hallett.

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