Rhys Taylor-Brown

Prime minister Boris Johnson has informed his cabinet colleagues that easing the UK’s lockdown measures too early could bring about a second wave of coronavirus.

Australian prime minister Scott Morrison said this week that a “more extensive surveillance regime” must be introduced if the country is to chart a course out of its Covid-19 lockdown.

The World Health Organization has said that Africa could become the next epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic, amid concerns over the continent’s vulnerability to the virus.

Locate in Kent has reported that London based accountancy firm Kreston Reeves has taken issue with the government’s Covid-19 support measures for charities, warning that they do not go far enough.

US president Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he will stop US funding to the World Health Organization [WHO], accusing it of mismanaging the Covid-19 outbreak and helping cover up the spread of the virus from China.

Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, who ended his campaign to become the Democratic candidate for the US presidential election last week, has now endorsed his former rival Joe Biden for the nomination.

Leadership has rarely come under the microscope as much as in recent times. With the Covid-19 death toll climbing, no end to the UK lockdown yet forthcoming and the prime minister having had to delegate responsibilities after contracting the virus himself, the world needs leaders more than ever. Over the Easter bank holiday, we will be putting leaders under the spotlight to gather their take on challenges they have faced as they have endeavoured to develop the businesses and organisations that have helped keep the UK running.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved from the intensive care unit at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London and back onto the ward, according to a Downing Street statement released on Thursday evening.

Culture secretary Oliver Dowden told the BBC on Thursday morning that there had been no change in prime minister Boris Johnson’s condition after a third night in intensive care at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London.

Speaking at Wednesday’s daily coronavirus briefing from Downing Street, chancellor Rishi Sunak informed the public that prime minister Boris Johnson’s condition is “improving” after two nights in intensive care.

Sir Keir Starmer’s shake-up of the shadow cabinet continued in earnest on Monday, with former Labour leader Ed Miliband returning to the fold as shadow business secretary.

The escalating coronavirus pandemic has forced the Democratic Party in the US to postpone the Democratic National Convention [DNC], where the party nominee to contest the November presidential election is to be announced.

Prime minister Boris Johnson has said that the government must "massively ramp up" coronavirus testing, calling tests the key which will "unlock the puzzle" of Covid-19.

US president Donald Trump has declared that the US is in "a very good shape" ahead of the coronavirus peak, with ten American firms now active in producing medical ventilators for ill patients.

US president Donald Trump has said that the country's social distancing measures intended to curb the spread of coronavirus will continue until April 30 at the earliest.