Megan McKenna pens powerful anthem FightCovid19 amid global pandemic… as she urges fans to ‘be brave, wash hands and follow her lead’ in battle against killer virus
- Taking to Instagram, the TOWIE star, 27, reworded the lyrics to her song ‘This’ to create new track FightCovid19, which she performed in an acapella style
- Her release of the track coincided with the UK’s coronavirus death toll jumping by a third to 759 after officials announced 181 more victims of the killer infection
- Joining a legion of stars backing the fight against the deadly virus and those supporting the NHS, Megan chose to show gratitude through her music
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Megan McKenna has written a song about the fight against coronavirus.
Taking to Instagram, the former TOWIE star and X Factor winner, 27, reworded the lyrics to her song ‘This’ to create new track FightCovid19, which she performed in an acapella style to her 2.4million followers in a video posted on Friday.
Her release of the track coincided with the UK’s coronavirus death toll jumping by a third to 759 after officials announced 181 more victims of the killer infection, while health chiefs also confirmed almost 15,000 Britons have now caught the virus.
Powerful: Megan McKenna has written a song about the fight against coronavirus
Joining a legion of stars backing the fight against the deadly virus and those supporting the NHS, Megan chose to show gratitude through her music.
The lyrics to the song are: ‘All you need to do is be brave, please stay at home and make sure you’re safe. Protect the NHS and have faith…
‘Whatever it is, don’t take the risk. And wash your hands we can beat this. Follow my lead and then you will see friends and family. Let’s be a team and fight Covid-19.’
In a caption alongside the video, she wrote: ‘FightCovid19 Changing the lyrics to my song ‘This’ felt right…. Please listen to every word, stay safe, stay home and share this message to as many people as you can. Love you guys so much’.
Belting out: Taking to Instagram, the former TOWIE star, 27, reworded the lyrics to her song ‘This’ to create new track FightCovid19, which she performed in an acapella style to her 2.4million followers in a video posted on Friday
That was then: Earlier this month, Megan returned from a trip to the US to record music and was spotted wearing a protective face mask in the fight against corona
Earlier this month, Megan returned from a trip to the US to record music and was spotted wearing a protective face mask in the fight against corona.
Just hours after Megan shared her powerful track, the virus arrived at the heart of power as Boris Johnson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock dramatically announced they had tested positive for COVID-19.
The bombshell news threatened to send the government’s response into chaos, with speculation rampant over which other senior figures could be infected.
Powerful: ‘Whatever it is, don’t take the risk. And wash your hands we can beat this. Follow my lead and then you will see friends and family. Let’s be a team and fight Covid-19’
Shock: Just hours after Megan shared her powerful track, the virus arrived at the heart of power as Boris Johnson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock dramatically announced they had tested positive for COVID-19
Government scientists have admitted there is likely to be 1,000 infected patients for every death recorded in Britain – suggesting the true toll is in the region of 600,000.
Number 10 has faced fierce criticism for its controversial policy to only test patients in hospital, meaning only a fraction of cases are being spotted and leaving the true scale of the UK’s outbreak a mystery.
Statistics show the UK is still testing less than 10,000 people every day. In the last 24 hours just 8,911 were checked for the bug, and on Thursday it was 7,847.
