British designer Thomas Heatherwick has met with the UK government to discuss commemorating those who have died during the coronavirus pandemic.
Records of the UK government's recent ministerial meetings show that the designer met Cabinet Office minister Chloe Smith in March this year at a meeting described as: "To discuss COVID-19 commemoration".
The meeting was an "informal discussion" on how best to commemorate the victims of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Cabinet Office.
"Whilst the Government's immediate focus is on protecting the lives and livelihoods of the nation, there is nonetheless the need to mourn those who have died during the Covid pandemic, and to mark and remember this period as one of immense struggle," the Cabinet Office told Dezeen. "The meeting was an informal discussion of general ideas around how the nation could remember those who have lost their lives and recognise those involved in the unprecedented pandemic response."
"No decisions have been made"
However, the Cabinet Office made it clear that Heatherwick, who is the head of London-based Heatherwick Studio, had not been selected to design any memorial that may be built.
"It was not specifically about a memorial and no decisions have been made," it continued.

On May 12, British prime minister Boris Johnson told the House of Commons that he would "establish a UK Commission on Covid Commemoration".
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