London wall illuminates Covid's enduring pain at Christmas

As the fifth anniversary of the global pandemic approaches, emotions still run raw across the UK amid lingering accusations that the then government responded too slowly to the crisis. Some 240,000 hearts have been painted by hand on the wall, nestled on the banks of the Thames, opposite the British parliament. Each heart on the 500-metre-long (540-yard) wall represents one of the UK victims of the disease, which shattered and disrupted lives around the globe after being first detected in China in December 2019.