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What is the latest guidance from the government on how to reduce the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak? Via: Coronavirus: The official UK government advice

Boris Johnson’s address to the nation was easy to understand at the level of individual sentences, and only hard to understand as a whole because no one has ever done anything like this before outside the pages of fiction Via: The moment a British prime minister put the whole nation Read more

PM stops all social events and gatherings apart from funerals in bid to stem virus outbreak Via: Coronavirus: UK bans gatherings of more than two people, Boris Johnson announces

James Abbott-Thompson, 28, was working as a diplomat for the Foreign Office after graduating from Cambridge University. He admits biting a colleague and spitting at police. Via: Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott's son, 28, admits spitting at police outside Foreign Office

Wendy Jacobs was headteacher at Roose Primary School in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. Via: Primary school headteacher Wendy Jacobs Barrow-in-Furness dies after testing positive coronavirus

The scenes were reportedly recorded at the Infanta Leonor Hospital and the Severo Ochoa de Leganes Hospital in the Spanish capital Madrid. Via: Coronavirus Spain: Patients lie on floor at full Madrid hospital

London has begun to shut its public parks after thousands of people flaunted coronavirus social distancing rules at the weekend. Via: Coronavirus UK: London parks shut as social distancing ignored

As UK school shut their doors to all students aside from the children of key wokers, FEMAIL speaks to education experts to find out how parents should go about home-schooling their children. Via: How parents can keep up with their children's education while home-schooling during the pandemic

Rolling coverage of all the UK developments in the coronavirus crisisCoronavirus – global live updatesMatt Hancock: those still socialising slowing down anti-virus effortsMidlands: ‘fit and healthy’ nurse, 36, in coronavirus intensive careGovernment suspends all rail franchise agreementsSee all our coronavirus coverage 2.01pm GMT The Methodist church is closing all its Read more

The Sherlock star joined Robin Ince and Josie Long’s daily online broadcast to self-isolated comedy fans – and the results were rallying‘Stay apart – and keep connecting,” is the mantra of Robin Ince’s new Stay at Home festival, a daily online broadcast to self-isolated comedy fans everywhere. Produced by the Read more