NHS workers are taking to the streets across the UK to demand higher wages.
Health service staff were excluded from the wage increase for around 900,000 public sector workers announced a couple of weeks ago because they are in the final year of a three-year pay deal.
Instead they are due a pay rise next April, but unions want the Government to show its appreciation for NHS staff by bringing it forward to this year.
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More than 500 health workers have died so far following exposure to coronavirus.
The NHS staff are staging socially-distanced protests to demand the Government recognises their role in the Covid-19 fight through higher wages.
Protesters gathered in St James’s Park and on Horse Guards Parade in central London ahead of their demonstration in the capital.
A samba band could be heard leading people in chants of “One, two, three, four, five, keep our NHS alive”.
The protesters observed a two-minute silence for colleagues who have died from Covid-19, before making their way along Whitehall towards Downing Street.
Meanwhile, NHS workers also gathered for a demonstration on Glasgow Green.
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