Coronavirus: Italy death toll overtakes China

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Theatres, cinemas, gyms, and leisure centres must close as soon as they reasonably can UK PM says.

Government to pay 80 per cent of wages for employees not working up to £2, 500 a month Chancellor Rishi Sunak.

65.000 retired ex-doctors and nurses are asked to help tackle the greatest global health threat in history. Senior officials say the ex-employees are needed to boost frontline services. The government also pledged to ensure that all hospitals have enough protective gear and ventilators. It also published a list of key workers whose children will still be able to go to school after they shut later.

Critical incident declared at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow, London after running out of intensive care beds, due to the increasing number of patients with Covid-19.

A spokesperson for the London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust said: “ Critical care capacity for patients with coronavirus is being organised on a cross-London basis so that hospitals and organisations work together to deliver the best possible care for patients and that is what has happened in this case”.

Six people have died of coronavirus at Northwick Park Hospital which is run by London North West University Healthcare Trust.