From Friday schools will be shut across the UK - with some exemptions for the children of key workers such as NHS staff. And today the UK death toll from the coronavirus outbreak reached 104.
That number is expected to increase in the coming days and weeks with more stringent lockdown measures expected before the end of the week.
Due to the school closures exams such as GCSEs and A-Levels have been scrapped and emergency legislation has been pledged to suspend new evictions from social or rented accommodation for the duration of the pandemic.
Yesterday Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rushi Sunak unveiled new measures from mortgage repayment holidays to business loans in £330billion package.
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