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A handful of Londoners have turned some casual conversations into a grassroots effort supplying thousands of gloves and masks to local medical clinics.

And they want more people stuck at home, especially business leaders, to step up and help.

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“We all need to get out of this mindset of hurt. It’s really easy to focus on that, but I think the key right now is to band together and be a village,” said Diana House, a London real estate investor and developer.

“Business people are sitting at home right now because their companies are closed. They are the people who need to rise up and say, ‘How can we help?’ “

Help is needed to keep medical clinics and doctors’ offices in London operating, said Dr. Mario Elia, a family doctor and professor of family medicine at Western University.

“If we do end up seeing big numbers over the next few weeks, we want to make sure that family docs can keep seeing patients, safely and timely, and that requires us to have adequate equipment,” he said.