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Unemployment increased by 22,000 to 1.36 million in the three months to February, before the coronavirus pandemic gripped the UK, official figures showed.

More than 140,000 firms have applied to the Government's employee furlough scheme, with grants to help cover the wages of more than one million people, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.

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Japanese authorities have cut down thousands of flowers to stop people from gathering in crowds during the coronavirus pandemic.

The death toll among Covid-19 hospital patients in the UK has passed 18,000, official figures show.

The UK's coronavirus death toll may have already hit 41,000 – twice as high as official figures suggest, new analysis has found.

Millions of key workers and their households are now eligible for coronavirus tests as the Government races to meet its 100,000 daily target by the end of next week.

The Government have said it is working on the infrastructure for "large-scale" contact tracing as a key strategy for lifting the coronavirus lockdown.

An Olympic-style plan to prevent buses and Tube trains getting overcrowded is being drawn up to help London come out of lockdown, it can be revealed today.

Burberry said it has donated more than 100,000 pieces of PPE in line with its commitments to support relief efforts during the global health emergency.

The true number of deaths linked to coronavirus in the UK is at least 5,000 higher than those reported from hospitals, new figures show.

Police have been alerted to more than 1,000 potential child sexual abuse cases during the coronavirus pandemic, the Home Secretary has said.

Donald Trump signed in a major aid bill worth $484 billion to support hospitals and employers in the US as his country's coronavirus death toll surpassed 50,000.

The coronavirus death toll in UK hospitals has passed the grim milestone of 20,000.

Home Secretary Priti Patel described the coronavirus death toll in UK hospitals passing 20,000 as a "deeply tragic and moving moment" and warned that "we are not out of the woods yet".

Boris Johnson will return to work in Downing Street on Monday after recovering from the virus.

The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has surpassed 200,000, researchers have said.

The UK death toll could jump past 100,000 by the end of the year if lockdown is lifted too early, a top professor has warned.

Officials 'massively ramping up efforts' to meet target as army is deployed to help establish mobile testing facilities

Loans to be available from next week as Government ramps up efforts to save small businesses from collapsing under financial fallout of Covid-19 crisis

A school in Bedfordshire has been flooded with thousands of cards from well wishers across the globe for Captain Tom Moore's upcoming 100th birthday.

More than 24,000 coronavirus patients have died, new figures show, as the nation paid tribute to frontline workers who lost their lives during the pandemic.

Nearly 18,000 more people could die from cancer over the next year in England due to the impact of coronavirus, experts have warned.

Families of NHS and social care staff who die from coronavirus in the course of "essential frontline work" will receive a £60,000 payment, Matt Hancock has said.

Nasa plans to test potentially lifesaving technology by crashing a spacecraft into a smaller asteroid in 2021

The Government's testing tsar has said he is "confident" that the 100,000 daily target for coronavirus tests will be met on Thursday.

Around 2,000 people died with coronavirus in care homes in England by mid-April and many more are believed to have passed away since then, health chiefs revealed today.

Of these, around 70 per cent were outside hospital settings and around 30 per cent were in hospital.

A cuckoo named Carlton II has smashed the record books by flying more than 4,000 miles in just seven days on his annual migration to the UK from Africa.

Greta Thunberg has donated $100,000 in prize money to the United Nations children's fund to help its coronavirus support campaign.

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Design and technology teachers have made more than 200,000 pieces of protective equipment for frontline NHS workers, new figures reveal.

British Airways is set to make up to 12,000 workers redundant, its parent company has said.

Police have issued more than 9,000 fines to people in England and Wales for allegedly breaching coronavirus lockdown laws, according to new figures.​

The 100-year-old war veteran received a total of 140,000 birthday cards

More than 1,000 British Airways pilots are set to lose their jobs as part of major redundancy plans announced by the airline, it is reported.

Boris Johnson will announce a "comprehensive" lockdown escape plan next week as deaths rose to 26,771.

Ryanair has said it expects up to 3,000 jobs to be lost as part of a restructuring of the airline.

Questions have been raised over how coronavirus tests were counted after Health Secretary Matt Hancock hailed the "incredible achievement" of the Government in hitting its 100,000-a-day target.

The family of a four-year-old boy with a rare form of cancer is raising money to take him to New York for a potentially life-saving vaccine.

The number of people who have died in UK hospitals after testing positive for coronavirus has jumped by 621, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has said.

Pub visits should be avoided even after coronavirus restrictions are lifted, England's deputy chief medical officer has indicated.

The number of daily coronavirus tests being carried has fallen to below 80,000 despite the Government saying that it hit the 100,000 a day target by the end of April.

Thousands of firms today rushed to get "bounce back" loans of up to £50,000 to avoid going bust within weeks as the coronavirus crisis wreaked havoc in the economy.

The Government has missed its 100,000 daily coronavirus test target for the second day running.

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.

The coronavirus death toll in the UK has risen to more than 32,000 - and may now be the highest in Europe.

The number of people who have died across the UK after testing positive for coronavirus has increased by 693 to nearly 30,000.