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Government’s online coronavirus test website shuts within minutes
Matt Hancock said the website had been launched to make testing "easier, faster and simpler".
Cillit Bang trends on Twitter following Donald Trump comments
"Hi I’m Barry Scott, back to tell you about our brand new formula... Cillit bang COVID."
Nightingale hospital has only 30 patients amid staff shortage
The London facility has capacity for 4,000 – but is said to have only one ward open, with claims it was never intended to take the sickest patients.
Postcode next to Cheltenham racecourse has highest number of coronavirus hospital admissions
The GL52 postcode saw more serious cases of Covid-19 than anywhere else in the country as of April 3rd.
Pollution tumbles in UK cities as travel cut by lockdown
Conditions give a ‘window’ into what UK cities could be like as transport shifts from petrol and diesel vehicles.
Millions of masks needed every week in Covid-19 battle
Frontline workers are getting through a ‘staggering’ amount of personal protective equipment.
Doctors express concern over self-isolation rules to Health Secretary
Public health experts have said they are concerned about conflicts with World Health Organisation guidance.
How prepared was the UK for the coronavirus outbreak?
In 2011, the then government set out its approach to a coronavirus-like pandemic in a UK Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy.
Trump tweets he has ordered US Navy to destroy Iranian gunboats
The US president’s tweet came after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard announced the launch of Iran’s first military satellite.