Anti-lockdown protests on the rise in the US
The growing wave of dissent comes despite America’s spiralling death toll from Covid-19.
Hancock facing grilling by MPs over coronavirus crisis
Questioning by Commons Health Committee comes amid calls for a clear exit strategy from lockdown.
UK government rules out delay to Brexit despite plea from IMF managing director
David Frost said that a delay would “keep us bound by evolving EU laws at a time when we need to control our own affairs".
Positive signs in Europe over coronavirus ‘tempered by UK’, WHO says
Dr Hans Kluge described how ‘the storm cloud’ of Covid-19 ‘still hangs heavily over the European region’.
Government structure the ‘real source of loan scheme problems’
It is a "classic example of trying to be too clever and forgetting what you are meant to achieve".
Call me a pessimist, but I think it’s sad that we have to fundraise for the NHS
A national treasure has been reduced to a charitable organisation reliant on the goodwill of the people it serves.
EasyJet to keep middle seats empty when flights resume
The airline has grounded its entire fleet due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Last month was the first March in two decades without any school shootings in US
There hasn't been a March without a school shooting since 2002.
Matt Hancock says lack of testing is down to “not enough demand”
Fewer than 15,000 coronavirus tests were carried out on Easter Monday and 16,000 on Tuesday - thousands below full capacity.