The BCC warned many sole traders were seeing their livelihoods ‘vanish in the blink of an eye’.

NHS workers have appealed to the Prime Minister to provide them with adequate protective equipment to deal with the coronavirus crisis.

Doctors, nurses and 111 callers, working around the clock and unable to get basic supplies, faced 600 metre queues at a Tesco this morning (Sun), with no social distancing measures.

PC Rachel Story, of West Yorkshire Police, also claimed that motorbike riders then threw eggs at officers dealing with the incident

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The force is asking special constables to volunteer for additional hours – and for their employers to give them paid leave to do so.

The Government has also advised those in the high-risk category to avoid face-to-face contact for 12 weeks.

Italy has now had 4,825 deaths, more than all of China, where the virus first emerged late last year.

It is defined as ‘someone who ignores the warnings regarding public health or safety’ or ‘a person who hoards goods, denying them from neighbours’.