With just 13 days to go until Health Secretary Matt Hancock has promised the UK will test 100,000 people a day, but figures showed there has been no progress for a week.

A handful of Premier League clubs have re-opened their training grounds this week to allow players to come and complete fitness work while observing strict social distancing rules.

EXCLUSIVE: Etihad has a large cargo operation, but has been forced to repurpose 22 of its passenger planes as freighters during the coronavirus pandemic, including the Man City jet.

It's likely that the remaining 92 Premier League matches will be played at 'neutral' venues if the season can resume. But which of the top-flight stadiums is best equipped to stage the games?

West Ham attacking midfielder Lanzini has become the latest top-flight star to publicly voice concerns about resuming playing, joining the likes of Aguero and Rudiger.

The worrying projection comes with leagues across Europe grappling with how to restart their campaigns, with France's Ligue 1 having already been forced to cancel.

Wayne Rooney has criticised the government and the football authorities for treating players as 'guinea pigs' in their confused message over the coronavirus outbreak.

With the suspension of the Premier League and EFL, Orient have taken it upon themselves to start a 128-team FIFA 20 tournament, with clubs including Man City, Brentford and Derby set to take part.

Derby owner Mel Morris admits the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is likely to complicate his attempts to secure outside investment in the Championship club this summer.

EXCLUSIVE BY MATT HUGHES: Derby are close to agreeing a £30 million loan from MSD Capital, the investment company owned by American billionaire Michael Dell.

Everything around football is up in the air. The season has been suspended for weeks and it is unclear when - and if - it might return. As time goes on, there are more voices calling it to be called off.

Derby County's first-team players and management have reached the end of their dramatic stand-off with the club by agreeing 'substantial' deferrals to their wages to help the Championship side.

Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up the views

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Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

The coronavirus means that taking your Mum out for an afternoon tea this Mother's Day may no longer be possible - but we reveal how to celebrate at home.

Rishi Sunak today announced any homeowner who is adversely affected by coronavirus will be eligible for a three month mortgage payment 'holiday'.

The Government paying rents may be the only way to keep some tenants in their homes amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Craig Aynsley, 46 from Northumberland, has been unable to work for five years after two separate battles with cancer - but thought his life had turned a corner last year after finding his dream home.

A private garden has become a highly desirable feature during the coronavirus breakdown, with homes in Barnsley, Doncaster and Burnley most likely to have a one, according to research.

Five thousand lets have claimed £10,000 each from the fund in Cornwall (pictured, St Ives), which was set up to help minor firms survive the coronavirus lockdown.

It's been a sobering week for investors. As someone who has been investing for more than 30 years, I have drawn on all my experience to sit on my hands and do very little.

For my husband's 50th birthday I booked an apartment in Liverpool via Booking.com. He wanted to see all The Beatles memorabilia and we had tickets to see the tribute band.

Around half a dozen Chinese venture capital firms with active presence in India have postponed their trips to the subcontinent

BlinkIN, a Bengaluru-based intelligent visual-assistance firm helped service engineers from Germany remotely install air ventilation systems in two hospitals in Wuhan

Healthcare company Portea has developed a chatbot called Cobot-19 which will disseminate information related to coronavirus

They were riding on the promise of steady double-digit growth, but with travel restrictions and cancellations, their problems are mounting

After Kumar and Govil were tested positive, the government's first response was to downplay the news

The opposition party also demanded that the Centre pays all pending dues to states to enable them to fight the outbreak, besides giving each of them special packages.

Addressing a press conference via video conference, Gandhi also said the entire country has to fight the crisis "unitedly"

Nikhil, son of former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, tied the nuptial knot with Revathi, the grand-niece of former Karnataka housing minister M Krishnappa

Banerjees allegation drew a sharp reaction from Dhankhar, who said, a state cannot be governed as a personal fiefdom and a constitutional functionary cannot be allowed to turn into a law unto oneself

The election commission also stayed the poll-related process

As a $484 billion aid package for small businesses moves to the House, the administration weighs helping oil companies; Wisconsin’s Republicans sue over the stay-at-home order; Netflix posts breakneck subscriber growth. WSJ’s Jason Bellini has the latest on the pandemic. Photo: Mark Felix/AFP

Regulators weigh greenlighting the emergency use of a Gilead drug, Boeing and Airbus plan to cut thousands of jobs, and Elon Musk rails against lockdown measures. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday has the latest on the pandemic. Photo: Associated Press

Industrial businesses in one Nebraska city implement safety procedures and adapt to social distancing guidelines in order to keep the doors open during the coronavirus pandemic. WSJ’s Erin Ailworth reports from Grand Island, Neb. Photo: Erin Ailworth

In an effort to halt the spread of the coronavirus, New York City has begun suspending service to its entire subway system nightly between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. so cleaning crews can disinfect its thousands of trains. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Main Street: Ordinary Americans protesting to reopen the economy face only contempt from elites. Images: AFP/Getty Composite: Mark Kelly

Potomac Watch: Congress has found its own neat and plausible answer to the Covid-19 pandemic: spend, spend some more. Thankfully, a few elected leaders are starting to realize it’s wrong. Image: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Watch the 1975 trailer for "Jaws," in which a deadly threat forces reluctant politicians to order a shutdown of the economy. Image: Universal Pictures via Everett Collection

The coronavirus outbreak has killed more than 24,000 people in the United States, the highest number of fatalities in any country, data from the Johns Hopkins University showed on Tuesday.As of 1.20 pm EDT (5.20 pm GMT), fatalities in the US reached 24,485, according to the university's Coronavirus Resource Center.At least 584,073 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the US, the largest number of infections among all countries.

The number of people infected with the new coronavirus worldwide has surpassed 1.8 million with 71,779 cases verified over the past 24 hours, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.According to the update, the global count of confirmed COVID-19 cases has reached 1,844,863, with the majority of them concentrated in Europe (943,272) and the Americas (644,986).The death toll has grown by 5,369 cases over the past day to a total of 117,021 fatalities, the report read.

Wilson Witzel, the governor of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, has been tested positive for coronavirus."On Friday, I began feeling ill and asked for a coronavirus test. Today the result came and it turned out to be positive," Witzel said in a video message posted on his Twitter page on Tuesday evening.The governor said that he had several symptoms of the disease, including fever, sore throat, and fatigue, Sputnik reported."Right now, I feel better and I will continue to work while in self-isolation, following the recommendations of doctors," Witzel further said.Brazil has reported 24,000 cases of coronavirus since the outbreak of the disease.Several political figures, including presidential communications secretary Fabio Wajngarten, have tested positive for the disease during the ongoing outbreak.

The number of coronavirus cases in the United States has topped 600,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The death toll has surpassed 25,000.While the number of cases stands at 602,989, a total of 25,575 people have died from the deadly virus in the country, reported Sputnik citing Johns Hopkins University.A total of 46,515 people have recovered as per the university's data.

Wearing masks and gloves, South Korean voters cast their ballots on Wednesday to elect 300 parliamentary lawmakers amid the coronavirus outbreak.Voting kicked off at 6 am (local time) and was to run until 6 pm (local time) at 14,330 polling stations across the country, according to the National Election Commission (NEC). The number of eligible voters is 44 million, according to Yonhap news agency.The once-in-four-years legislative election is widely seen as a referendum on President Moon Jae-in, whose five-year term will end in mid-2022, as well as a test of the country's fight against COVID-19 under the leadership of Moon, The Strait Times reported.South Korea has received international praise for its massive testing capability and other innovative measures, such as drive-through testing and high-tech contact tracing.Experts, therefore, expect the ruling Democratic Party (DP) to extend its lead in Parliament, given that the government's handling of the virus outbreak is viewed ...