CORONA CRISIS Ready for kick-off
SPORTS BOSS’ VICTORY ‘5-A-SIDE RESTART TO AID MENTAL HEALTH’
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UK’s largest package holiday provider will cover the cost of medical care for customers who contract Covid-19 while on a break. TUI will also protect them from paying for tests, repatriation, extended hotel stays and new flights.
A MISS England judge is working to find a cure for Covid-19.
Carina Tyrrell, who won the pageant in 2014 before reaching the final stage at Miss World, has beauty and brains in abundance.
At the end of the month the doctor will take a day off from carrying out vaccine trials to judge the first virtual Miss England competition.
Carina, 30, said: “I work at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and at the University of Cambridge on vaccine trials for Covid-19.”
Watch the Miss England live semi-final on July 31 at missengland.info.
FIVE-A-SIDE chiefs helped persuade the Government to bring back amateur games.
Powerleague CEO Christian Rose penned a letter, backed by rival businesses, asking to let them kick-off as soon as possible.
In it, he argued five a side is as important for its players’ mental health as their physical health.
Christian added: “One of the key things is that we operate in communities where some people haven’t got gardens.
“Blokes in the main don’t talk, don’t phone to have chats. They have a chat when playing sport and perhaps having a beer afterwards.”
He cited research that found players spend just two minutes and 16 seconds within one metre of an opponent in an hour-long game. Following the plea, it was announced on Thursday that sports facilities can reopen from July 25, with five-a-side football to follow suit “shortly after”. Safeguarding measures will include sanitising pitches and enforcing social distancing before and after matches. Meanwhile, swimmers returned to some outdoor pools yesterday after further changes to the Covid rules were made last week.
Keen swimmer Jessica Walker said she was “quite giddy with excitement” to be back at Charlton Lido, inset, in south-east London.