The Eighteenth Day: 9 April 2020
The Eighteenth Day: 9 April 2020 (65,077 confirmed infected, 7,978 died, in total)
"Let’s not undo the gains we’ve made. Let’s not waste the sacrifices so many people have made... So please stay home this bank holiday weekend. For everyone’s sake." – Dominic Raab
Easter holidays will start tomorrow. Police is worrying that people may flout the lock-down rules to go out for family gatherings or soaking in sunshine. Indeed, these couples of days the weather was sunny and warm. Will the virus be deactivated by the rising temperature as some scientists suggested?
The Prime Minister has been moved out from Intensive Care Unit to normal ward. This is almost the only good news for these days.
For some work reasons, we went to Heathrow Airport in the evening. A small number of flights were still operating, although most have been cancelled. There was no car parking near the entrance of the terminal building, which is a hot place for picking and dropping passengers at normal times. The terminal was empty and silent, too.
Today is the third Thursday since the “Clap for Our Carers” campaign has begun. We were driving by a park when it came to 8pm. Thunder-like clapping echoed above the park and the roads.