Medics fighting COVID-19 in a hospital in Cheshire seem to have cut mortality rates and improved the chances of a quick recovery from the virus by adapting breathing machines normally used for a sleeping disorder. 

Coronavirus lockdown measures are being tightened in Wales from Saturday.

Essential workers and their households will be able to book coronavirus tests online from today, the health secretary says.

There have been a further 616 coronavirus-related deaths in UK hospitals, the Department of Health has said.

The first court hearing in the Duchess of Sussex’s legal action against The Mail On Sunday will take place remotely later.

Coastal and ex-industrial towns are most economically at risk from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research.

Tens of thousands of households in England are being asked to take part in a new study to track the spread of COVID-19.

The UK is “at the peak” of the coronavirus outbreak, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has told MPs – on the same day the number of UK hospital deaths rose above 18,000.

Ministers have been too slow to respond to the coronavirus crisis as they failed to take up dozens of offers to help produce medical equipment, Labour has said.

Frontline healthcare workers are at no greater risk of catching COVID-19 than other NHS workers, according to research published in The Lancet.