Boris Johnson is expected to tell an emergency Cobra meeting on coronavirus that tackling the outbreak requires a “national and international effort”, following the UK’s third death linked to the illness.
Year: 2020
Boris Johnson has been greeted with heckles of “traitor” as he visited a flood-hit area of Worcestershire.
The total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK is now 273, a rise of 67, the biggest in a 24-hour period.
Major supermarkets in the UK have started to ration certain products after some shoppers began stockpiling over coronavirus fears.
Millions of volunteers could be given four weeks off work to help take the strain off the health service in the event the coronavirus outbreak becomes a pandemic, the government has announced.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have received a standing ovation and long applause at the Royal Albert Hall as they embarked on their final engagements as senior royals.
One school pupil thought she was going to faint as the Duchess of Sussex paid a surprise visit to a school in east London to celebrate International Women’s Day.
Eggheads star Dave Rainford has died, the game show’s host Jeremy Vine has confirmed.
A 25-year-old woman has been arrested after a 20-month-old baby died at a hospital in Mansfield.
The chief medical officer has confirmed the second person to die after contracting coronavirus is a man in his early 80s.