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Around 7,000 members of staff at Transport for London [TfL] will be furloughed under the government’s Job Retention Scheme.

The Department for Health has announced that the key worker coronavirus testing website has had to temporarily close after "significant demand".

Prime minister Boris Johnson is planning to officially return to work on Monday next week after beating coronavirus, according to The Telegraph.

Health secretary Matt Hancock is set to take the government briefing today, where it is expected he will ask households in England to participate in a "trial", according to the BBC.

Phil Neville will leave his role as manager of the England women’s national team upon the expiry of his contract in the summer of 2021.

The UK chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty has indicated that social distancing measures may have to be in place for at least the rest of the year in order to prevent a second peak of coronavirus.

Chief medical officer Chris Whitty has said that some kind of social distancing measures will have to remain until the end of the year.

US president Donald Trump has signed an executive order suspending the approval of some green card applications for a period of 60-days.

In the profession of being ahead of the curve, the contemporary art world’s delay in responding to the Covid-19 pandemic has been something of a surprise.

Health secretary Matt Hancock has told MPs that the government is working hard to make personal protective equipment [PPE] more readily available to front-line workers.

Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has sought answers from the government over its response to the Covid-19 pandemic concerning issues such as testing and the shortage of personal protective equipment [PPE] available to front-line workers.

Foreign secretary Dominic Raab has pledged that the UK will be testing 100,000 people a day within the next eight days.

The largest umbrella organisation for Muslims in the UK, The Muslim Council of Britain, has published an online guide to help millions observe Ramadan amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The House of Commons will operate as a ‘virtual’ Parliament for the first time on Wednesday, with Prime Minister’s Questions scheduled for midday.