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Some 477,000 claims have been made since Monday last week as vast gaps open up for the self-employed.

It comes after the Government launched a recruitment drive for 250,000 volunteers in good health to help vulnerable people.

Coronavirus has laid bare a system that has no ceiling but also no floor to prop it up in times of extreme difficulty.

All 53 whose deaths were announced on Saturday had underlying health conditions and the eldest was 94, NHS England said.

Some staff had to hear via Twitter that their employment had been terminated.

Government scientists said measures could alternate in their severity in order to keep cases at a number the NHS can cope with.

The PM said people need to keep their distance and stay home if ill.

"This is a national emergency and we need to pool our nation’s expertise to fight the spread.”

It also increased its so-called quantitative easing programme by £200 billion to £645 billion.