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

Emotional debate over UK Covid memorial risks dividing bereaved

The National Covid Memorial Wall in London.
The National Covid Memorial Wall in London. Photograph: Niklas Halle’n/AFP/Getty Images

An emotionally charged dispute over how best to memorialise Covid in the UK risks dividing people bereaved over the course of the pandemic.

A split has emerged over whether a red or yellow heart should become the long-term symbol of loss, and over the date of an annual commemoration. The crux of the dispute is a claim from some people who lost loved ones to Covid that their experience “needs to be treated differently” than those bereaved during Covid.

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