• The first NHS worker has died from coronavirus. It was reported that Dr El-Hawrani who worked at Queen's Hospital in Burton, Leicester, had died from the virus.
  • UK coronavirus-related deaths jumped from 1,019 as of Saturday to 1,228 yesterday - an increase of 209.
  • A breakdown of which hospital trusts where people had died from the virus were as follows: Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust: 1, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust: 1, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust: 4, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust: 1 and The Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust: 1.
  • A further six people with coronavirus died in Northern Ireland, bringing the death toll in the region to 21.
  • Michael Gove, Minister for the Cabinet Office, said the coronavirus lockdown will be in place for a "significant period" and could last longer if people do not stick to the rules.
  • Health Secretary Matt Hancock wrote an open letter of thanks to social care workers for everything they have done in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
  • Three quarters of a million people have signed up as volunteers to help others through the coronavirus crisis, three times the initial target, less than a week after the appeal was announced.
  • The mortality rate of patients admitted to intensive care with a confirmed case of coronavirus is close to 50 per cent, according to an early study of critical care outcomes.
  • Boris Johnson is writing to every household in the UK to urge the public to obey the lockdown and stay home during the coronavirus "national emergency".
  • More than 750 St John Ambulance volunteers have offered to help at the new hospital set up to meet demand for intensive care beds as the coronavirus crisis escalates.
  • The Royal College of Midwives yesterday made a plea to NHS leaders to protect the safety of pregnant women by ringfencing maternity services in the current crisis.
  • Millions of face masks, gloves and aprons are being delivered to frontline healthcare workers in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government announced in the daily briefing yesterday.