Millions more people in the UK now have access to coronavirus testing after it was announced the rules would be loosened last week.
Among those eligible are care home residents and staff, who can apply for a test irrespective of whether or not they are experiencing symptoms.
In business, Barclays has warned that the pandemic could affect it to the tune of more than £2 billion, as many customers are simply unable to repay loans.
Across the channel, masks are now compulsory in French secondary schools and on public transport, following an announcement by PM Edouard Phillipe.
And Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, has said that his country will be looking to return to a state of "new normality" around the end of June.
While Europe slowly looks to ease lockdown measures and return to something resembling public life, President Donald Trump has committed to a rather stringent measure by designating meatpacking plants as "critical infrastructure" and ordering that they stay open.
This power -- last invoked during the Korean War in the 1950s -- has been deployed to stop closures which "threaten the continued function of the national meat and poultry supply chain".
Prior to the presidential mandate, around 22 plants had closed following the announcement that the lives of more than 3,000 workers in the industry had been lost during the pandemic.
The next Leaders Council update will follow tomorrow morning.
