A nurse and a domestic services assistant have become the latest healthcare workers to die after contracting coronavirus.

Boris Johnson has said doctors prepared to announce his death as he battled coronavirus in intensive care.

The Duchess of Cambridge has made a virtual bedside visit to new parents during a video call to midwives she worked alongside last year.

Fewer people would have died from coronavirus in the UK if the country had greater testing capacity sooner, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said.

A passenger plane has returned to the UK with ten million pairs of surgical gloves for NHS staff on the coronavirus frontline.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has claimed that the US has "a significant amount of evidence" that the new coronavirus emerged from a Chinese laboratory.

Boris Johnson is set to urge countries to "pull together" in the fight against the global coronavirus pandemic.

UK scientists have started testing an experimental Covid-19 drug which they hope will significantly improve the health of coronavirus patients.

The closure of cafes and restaurants in Rome due to the coronavirus outbreak means seagulls have had to change their habits and start eating rats, zoologists claim.

Cancer patients are being kept awake during operations to protect them from coronavirus, the Evening Standard can reveal.

New Zealand has recorded no new coronavirus cases for the first day since a national lockdown came into force more than a month ago.

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Police have launched an investigation after 23 cows and calves were reported missing from a farm in Cornwall.

Care home workers say employers are playing "Russian roulette" with their lives as personal protective equipment (PPE) is withheld or rationed amid unclear guidance, according to a union.

A huge underground car park in the heart of the West End is to be converted into a £150 million subterranean healthcare and entertainment complex.

Headteachers are planning for life after the lockdown to ensure the return to school will be safe for all children and staff.

London's Nightingale hospital will be put "on standby" within days as a result of the capital passing the peak of coronavirus cases.

The Mayor of London warned against a 'big bang' of lifting lockdown measures

Trials are beginning on a new coronavirus contact-tracing app which ministers have said will save lives and help lift Britain out of lockdown.

Powerful winds and heavy rain continue to batter the UK with gales of up to 60mph sweeping across the southwest, sparking a weather warning.

New car sales were almost wiped out last month as the the number of registrations collapsed to their lowest level for 74 years.

The number of new Covid-19 cases "needs to come down further", an expert has warned, as the UK death toll recorded its lowest daily rise since the end of March.

Just 50,000 commuters could board every 15 minutes if they had to keep two metres apart - when rush-hour usually sees 320,000 on board

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An international basketball player who moved to London to escape Somalia's looming civil war has become one of the capital's latest victims of Covid-19.

Nike has donated tens of thousands of trainers to frontline healthcare workers fighting the pandemic around the world.

There were 5,890 coronavirus-related care home deaths involving Covid-19 registered up to April 24 in England and Wales, the Office for National Statistics said.

California's governor has announced that the six-week lockdown of America's most populous state will be relaxed within days as the daily coronavirus death toll across the United States fell to its lowest level in a month.

Union bosses have written to Sadiq Khan to demand a reversal of Transport for London's "disgraceful" decision to deny free travel to London Underground's cleaners.

Boris Johnson's top scientist has defended the Government's battleplan against Covid-19 and said "you can't stop it".

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A hospital worker described as a "true gentleman" by colleagues has died after contracting coronavirus.

A French hospital which has retested old samples from pneumonia patients discovered that it treated a man who had Covid-19 as early as December 27.

Coronavirus warning messages from celebrities including Jamie Redknapp are being broadcast from cars driving around the streets of east London to get people to respect the lockdown.

The ONS total is 34% higher than the Department of Health total.

Reopening all schools in the UK at once would lead to a "very real risk" of the coronavirus infection rate rising and could cause a second peak, the Foreign Secretary has said.

Zoo otters juggle stones when they are hungry because they may be excited about food, scientists believe.

Blue Peter has honoured Captain Tom Moore with a gold badge for his fundraising efforts.

Online supermarket Ocado has revealed retail revenues surged by 40.4 per cent for the past two months as demand soared due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A man and a woman tricked their way into a 100-year-old woman's home and stole more than £100 in what police branded a "despicable" crime.

Hundreds of O2 and Vodafone customers have reported problems with the networks.

Britons will enjoy another mini heatwave as temperatures soar to an unseasonably high 25C just in time for the Bank Holiday weekend.

Europeans will see the worst economic shock since the Great Depression due to coronavirus, the European Union predicted.

A key figure of Columbia Road flower market and a campaigning businessman dubbed "Mr Highbury" are among the latest victims whose deaths show how coronavirus is tearing through London's communities.

Border officials in Sweden found a huge stash of weapons when they stopped a "zombie hunter" vehicle trying to enter to country from Germany.

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Detectives believe an unidentified second man known to the victim, found dead in his car, killed the academic before taking his own life.

A father-of-two who spent 19 days in an induced coma in hospital has made an "incredible" recovery from coronavirus in time to celebrate his son's second birthday.

The Duchess of Cambridge has launched a landmark photographic project to capture the "spirit of the nation" during the coronavirus outbreak.