ON TWITTER

#ANTONIOFINELLI

Antonio Finelli, 95, a UK state pension recipient for 32 years, was asked for proof when he applied to stay post-brexit.

@Davidlammy angrily tweeted: “Antonio Finelli arrived in the UK from Italy in 1952 after answering an ad for immigrant labour. Now, aged 95, the British government is telling him he must give more proof of his right to live here.”

@changed_gear felt: “The Home Office need to urgently get a grip. I can’t imagine how stressful it must be to have to justify staying in a country you’ve lived and worked in for decades. ” And from @sturdyalex: “EU27 citizens were given multiple cast-iron guarantees of a system of registration which would ‘automatically’ enshrine our rights. Now asking 95-yearolds, who’ve lived here for seven decades, to ‘prove it’.”

@Wales4europe pointed out: “Second case like this in a week. Last week 101-yearold Giovanni Palmiero was told to get his longdeceased parents to apply on his behalf. All EU and EEA citizens in UK need to apply for ‘settled status’ in order to be able to stay after June next year.”

But @Davekeating thought:

“I’m as dismayed by this as anyone, but I do not understand these ‘OMG this guy has lived here forever but has to prove it’ articles. Yes, everyone has to prove it because the UK has had, incredibly, no register of who is and isn’t in the country.”

#CORONAVIRUS

China’s central bank has implemented a new strategy to contain the coronavirus – deep-cleaning and destroying potentially infected cash.

@AFP tweeted: “Banks in China are using ultraviolet light or high temperatures to disinfect banknotes, then locking them away for seven to 14 days before recirculating them as part of efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus.”

@webtheplanet queried: “Most transactions are done by Wechat or Alipay in China. Little cash transactions occur.”

@Cherrycolazing joined in: “You can deep clean notes?”

@Halafish2 replied: “Studies show the virus may live up to a week on surfaces such as wood and paper.”

@jonprideaux added: “Notes and coins are not only fiddly to use, but can also be a vector for disease. In the Great Plague of London in 1665 shoppers dropped coins into jars of vinegar.”