An NHS contact tracing app is set to be released today for council and healthcare workers in a trial exclusive to the Isle of Wight.
On Thursday, it will be made available to the general public, but the trial will stay within the island. If it proves to be successful, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said the app will be rolled out across the rest of the country.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for "national consensus" on any kind of pandemic exit plan, ahead of his tabled meetings with the Prime Minister this week.
Boris Johnson is believed to be working on a "road map" this week, with a view to announcing it on Sunday.
And a French doctor has revealed that the virus arrived in France approximately a month earlier than previously thought, with a swab taken on December 27 only now coming back as positive.
Across the Atlantic, the US has announced it will look at borrowing a record $3 trillion in the second quarter of 2020, which is five times its previous quarterly record, set in 2008.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been the first world leader to openly come out and say that the country will not be opening its borders for a "long time" with the exception of a possible "trans-Tasman bubble" to allow people to travel between Australia and New Zealand.
And in a BBC feature piece, science correspondent Victoria Gill said some scientists believe that it "might never be known how the first person was infected".
The next Leaders Council update will follow tomorrow.
