The adjustment we’re having to make to our new normality isn’t just about the physical – the self-isolation and the social distancing – it is also having a significant impact on our emotional wellbeing.

Among the places people turn for solace and support are organisations such as the Samaritans and the Church.

The Samaritans in Hereford continues to provide their service, but have had to stop face-to-fact contact, meaning volunteers are taking calls from around the country.

“Coronavirus is the main topic,” says Samaritans Hereford director Liz Dolloway, “and we are getting calls from NHS workers, who have nowhere else to go with it, because at work everyone is in the same position with what they are seeing and how it is for them, and they find we are an outlet.

“Our volunteers are managing to come in and they are amazing, but if they start getting ill, who knows what will happen.” The Samaritans helpline (116123) remains open. The Church, too, no longer has a physical presence, but technology is being used here too to ensure that congregations still feel part of the Church community with access to worship.

The Dean of Hereford, the Very Rev Michael Tavinor, says the cathedral has a network of telephone and email to keep in touch with its congregation of 300 “many of them elderly and isolated”.

“It’s important we keep up that contact,” he says. “And there are daily prayers on the cathedral website. We are concerned about those without internet access, and we are trying to do our best with that too.

“I think isolation is going to increasingly concern people, and the current situation is also worrying for people not used to being together, especially if you don’t get on. There are two opposite struggles here.

“We are doing what we can in faith and hope what we are doing helps someone somewhere.”

The cathedral can be visited, virtually, in BBC1’s Sunday Worship at 11am, a pre-recorded service for Palm Sunday, led by the Dean.