More than 140,000 firms have applied for the government’s job retention scheme since it launched on Monday morning, the chancellor has said.
A military transport jet has left the UK for Turkey to pick up a delayed cargo of urgently needed personal protective shipment, Sky News understands.
Thousands of vulnerable children who should be returning to school have not turned up for the first day of summer term.
Another 449 patients have died in hospitals in the UK after contracting coronavirus.
The government’s furlough scheme has opened for applications, with business groups warning that delays in payments could be catastrophic for British companies.
The government has published a lengthy rebuttal to a damning newspaper article that claimed the UK “lost a crucial five weeks” to tackle the threat posed by the coronavirus.
Another 596 people have died with coronavirus in UK hospitals – the smallest increase in nearly two weeks.
No date has been set for when schools in England will reopen, the education secretary has confirmed.
Doctors and nurses clapped as two men became the first patients to be discharged from London’s Nightingale Hospital after being treated for coronavirus.
The government missed a series of opportunities to lessen the impact of the coronavirus in February and March, it is being claimed.