It wasn’t all bad

The chief executive of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, has donated $1bn – more than a quarter of his $3.8bn total wealth – to fund global Covid-19 relief. Announcing the move on Twitter, the 43-year-old said: “Life is too short, so let’s do everything we can today to help people now.” Dorsey says he will transfer 19.8 million of his shares in Square, the payments company he co-founded, to a charitable fund called Start Small, which will then distribute the money.

A 99-year-old war veteran who aimed to raise £1,000 for the NHS by walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday, on 30 April, has raised more than £8m in a week. Tom Moore, known as Captain Tom, is walking around his garden in Bedfordshire in ten-lap chunks, using a frame. “Every penny that we get, they [the NHS] deserve,” he said. Meanwhile, Scrub Hubs – community groups made up of people who love to sew – are popping up all over the country to coordinate the making of scrubs and gowns for NHS staff. Volunteers range from amateurs to laid-off theatre costume designers.

Since schools closed, about 150 Ofsted staff have offered to act as “emergency foster carers” for children unable to stay in their foster homes due to a risk of contracting the coronavirus. The schools watchdog has been working with councils to match qualified personnel with vulnerable children. An assistant headteacher in Grimsby, meanwhile, has been walking five miles a day with an 18kg rucksack of free food to deliver to disadvantaged pupils. Zane Powles is delivering to 78 children each day, and bringing them homework.