A minute’s silence will be held across the UK later to commemorate the key workers who have died with coronavirus.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who returned to work on Monday, will join the tribute, which starts at 11:00 BST.

More than 100 NHS and care staff have died with the virus, as have many transport and other key workers.

It comes as the son of a doctor who died called on the government to issue a public apology for issues with personal protective equipment (PPE).

Intisar Chowdhury told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme he wanted ministers “to accept their mistakes and let their mistakes become improvement rather than just ignore them and completely move on”.

“I think we can forgive that as a country because it is such an unprecedented thing it is hard to know what to do,” he said.

“But they need to hold themselves accountable for that, learn from that and move on so that we can trust them more.”

The 18-year-old also asked the government to make private apologies to the families of health and care workers affected.

Intisar’s father, Dr Abdul Mabud Chowdhury, 53, who died earlier this month, had warned Prime Minister Boris Johnson about a lack of PPE before being hospitalised.

A BBC Panorama investigation has found the government failed to buy enough PPE to cope with a pandemic.

There were no gowns, visors, swabs or body bags in the government’s pandemic stockpile when Covid-19 reached the UK, the programme reported.

Government minister Victoria Atkins told BBC Breakfast she was “very, very sorry to hear” of the Panorama report.

“Like every other country in the world, [the virus] is unprecedented and the requirements for PPE have risen exponentially and we’re doing our absolute best to address those needs and will continue to do so,” she said.

She added that, since the outbreak began, “a billion pieces of PPE” have been distributed across the UK.