Ross Hindle

While quarantine is being lifted - or eased - country-by-country in places like Europe, Asia and North America, in the Southern Hemisphere, Covid-19 appears only to be getting started.

New data released by the ONS on Friday shows that government borrowing soared to hit £62 billion in April 2020

Rishi Sunak has warned that it is "very likely" that the UK is in a "significant recession", following the release of ONS figures that show the economy took a two per cent hit in Q1 2020.

The government's divisive new "stay alert" messaging has replaced the previous mandatory "stay at home" instruction, as the government looks to very slowly ease the UK's lockdown.

The death toll in the UK has passed Italy's, previously the worst-affected country in Europe.

Boris Johnson is set to announce the government's "steps to defeat" Covid-19 later today, in his first press conference since returning to No. 10.

Millions more people in the UK now have access to coronavirus testing after it was announced the rules would be loosened last week.

There will be a minute's silence at 11am today to commemorate those key workers who have died with Covid-19.

In an article from columnist and cinematographer Benedict Spence, The Telegraph said the prime minister's "absence at the top of government left a void that needs to be filled".

At yesterday's White House Covid-19 briefing, US President Donald Trump discussed a number of prevention measures for Covid-19 in a presentation on infection "best practices" for American citizens.

Following French research that revealed the number of smokers who caught Covid-19 was four times less than non-smokers, frontline health workers in the country may be given nicotine patches.

The Department for Health has announced that the key worker coronavirus testing website has had to temporarily close after "significant demand".

Health secretary Matt Hancock is set to take the government briefing today, where it is expected he will ask households in England to participate in a "trial", according to the BBC.

Chief medical officer Chris Whitty has said that some kind of social distancing measures will have to remain until the end of the year.

Foreign secretary Dominic Raab has pledged that the UK will be testing 100,000 people a day within the next eight days.