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The medical director of NHS England has said he can see some “green shoots” in the UK’s recovery from the coronavirus epidemic, as the daily death toll hit a record 381 people. Stephen Powis said there had been a “bit of a plateau” in the number of people testing positive for coronavirus, but he warned … Read more

A Labour councillor in Sheffield has become the first serving politician in the UK known to have died from coronavirus. Pat Midgley’s last political act was to vote for Sir Keir Starmer in the Labour leadership race on Saturday, a day before she died and three days after testing positive for Covid-19. Midgley, 82, who … Read more

The coronavirus has already overwhelmed medical services, grounded flights and halted economic growth, but one of its most enduring effects could be to usher in a political age in which soft authoritarians have turned harder, and the surveillance state becomes a way of life even in some democracies. In Hungary, after a set of measures … Read more

The government has announced a £75m rescue mission to repatriate an estimated 300,000 British stranded abroad because of the coronavirus outbreak. How will this work and who will be selected for a flight home? What is the UK’s plan? The repatriation effort involves a mixture of commercial routes and charter flights. The government is encouraging … Read more