Published 16:33 IST, March 31st 2020

Lord's parking lot to turn into COVID-19 battleground for medical staff support: Report

The Marylebone Cricket Club-owned Lords Cricket Ground will be providing its parking spaces to the medical staff workers in a fight against the coronavirus.

Reported by: Aakash Saini
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In a fight against coronavirus pandemic, England cricket’s Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) recently decided to show support by lending parking of Lord’s Cricket Ground for National Health Service (NHS) workers. Apart from lending Lord’s parking lot, MCC will also be providing stor areas of Lord's to United Kingdom’s (UK) Wellington Hospital amidst UK lockdown situation. A senior MCC official recently released a statement that club is intending to utilise as many elements of Lord’s CricketGround to fight against highly contagious coronavirus disease.

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In statement, MCC official also said that club has provided 75 parking s of Lord’s to staff of Wellington Hospital, St John's Hospital and several ors. club will also be providing food to City Harvest London in order to feed hungry as UK lockdown continues. According to medical reports from March 30, UK has reported with 1,411 deaths due to coronavirus and over 21,000 cases of coronavirus affected patients so far.

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With widespre impact of coronavirus, UK lockdown continues to be in effect. threat of disease has alrey impact cricketing activities across country as entire English home summer was recently postponed until furr tice. home summer also included much-anticipated franchise-based tournament Hundred, which w looks uncertain to go ahe as per its original schedule.

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16:33 IST, March 31st 2020