The second stage of the coronavirus response "will not be easy" and the UK must adjust to a "new normal" to avoid a second peak , Dominic Raab has said.

A Labour MP working on the NHS frontline has hit back at Health Secretary Matt Hancock after he told her to watch her "tone" during a debate in the House of Commons.

Online supermarket Ocado has revealed retail revenues surged by 40.4 per cent for the past two months as demand soared due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Hundreds of O2 and Vodafone customers have reported problems with the networks.

The Trump administration failed to prepare for the onslaught of coronavirus, then sought a quick fix by trying to rush an unproven drug to patients, a senior government scientist has alleged in a whistleblower complaint.

A 100-year-old Muslim man has raised more than £70,000 for coronavirus victims after being inspired by Colonel Tom Moore.

Brits will be left in the lurch unless ministers set out a clear path for lifting the Covid-19 lockdown, a former prime minister's think tank said.

IKEA has refused to comment on reports its 18 UK stores will be reopening later this month.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said it is still too soon to say when students will be able to return to UK schools, warning it may not be until September.

A key figure of Columbia Road flower market and a campaigning businessman dubbed "Mr Highbury" are among the latest victims whose deaths show how coronavirus is tearing through London's communities.

Angela Merkel faced a test of her authority today as she prepared to thrash out plans with the country's 16 state premiers to further ease Germany's coronavirus lockdown.

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Main roads and town centres across London are to be rapidly transformed to create safe space for a massive increase in pedestrians and cyclists, City Hall announced today.

The National Lottery website is down due to a power failure, leaving users unable to check results or enter Wednesday's draw.

London's iconic Ritz hotel was sold for "half the market price" after conversations were secretly recorded by the nephews of the billionaire co-owner and a Saudi investor offering £1.3bn, the High Court has heard.

Earth's closest black hole has been discovered by astronomers and it is big enough to swallow the whole of Washington DC.

Of the 22,049 confirmed reported deaths so far in hospitals in England, 11,575 (52 per cent) were people aged 80 and over while 8,547 (39 per cent) were 60-79.

A father-of-two who spent 19 days in an induced coma in hospital has made an "incredible" recovery from coronavirus in time to celebrate his son's second birthday.

People worried about becoming seriously ill with Covid-19 are increasingly stressed by talk over easing of the lockdown, according to research.

Singer Cher Lloyd has revealed her father is "seriously unwell" in hospital.​

A 10-year-old double-leg amputee has raised more than £10,000 by walking a marathon distance during coronavirus lockdown.

A plan to overhaul London's streets after the coronavirus lockdown hopes to see cycling increase tenfold and pavements widened to allow for more social distancing to take place.

Rising levels of racist abuse towards people of Chinese heritage is likely to escalate when the coronavirus lockdown lifts, an academic has warned.

Boris Johnson could ditch the Government's "stay at home" slogan ahead of an expected easing of restrictions next week, it has been reported.

Boris Johnson is due to reveal details of the Government's "road map" for easing the UK's coronavirus lockdown, some of which may begin as early as next week.

Boris Johnson today indicated that lockdown restrictions could be lifted on Monday "if we possibly can" as he returned to Parliament for the first time since his recovery from coronavirus .

Donald Trump has described the coronavirus pandemic as the "worst attack" ever on the United States as he continued to point the finger at China.

The coronavirus pandemic is transforming the funeral industry and leading people to seek alternatives to traditions dating back hundreds of years, experts say.

Brits are set to bask in two days of glorious sunshine over the May Bank Holiday weekend, with temperatures creeping up to 26C.

Today's extraordinary projections of the course of the economy over the rest of the year from the Bank of England are, bizarrely, both worse and better than might be feared.

A four-year-old girl battling a rare form of leukaemia has been reunited with her dad after seven weeks apart in lockdown.

France has been warned it faces an inevitable "second wave" of coronavirus as the country prepares to take its first significant steps out of lockdown.

The Royal Hospital Chelsea today revealed that nine of its residents had died from the coronavirus.

Most parents don't want to send their children back to school as soon as the coronavirus lockdown is lifted, a new study has found.

Full-scale tracking and tracing of new coronavirus infections by the end of this month was today made an official Government target.

More than 40 children have been treated in a specialist London hospital for a "hyper inflammatory" new disease after apparently contracting coronavirus, the Standard has been told.

Shadow justice secretary David Lammy responded to the figures by calling for an urgent investigation into the disproportionate number of deaths.

Obese people with coronavirus are more at risk of dying, one of the UK's leading scientists has said.

The number of people who have died after testing positive for coronavirus has jumped by 539.

British people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities are two to three times more likely to die from coronavirus, new research has found.

Up to 15,000 pubs face permanent closure if they cannot reopen before October, an industry boss has warned.

The UK is past the peak of the coronavirus outbreak but the country is still at a "dangerous" stage of the pandemic, Dominic Raab has said.

The first changes to the UK's coronavirus lockdown will be "small" and "very carefully monitored" when the Prime Minister reveals his "roadmap" on Sunday.

Brits across the country have erupted in applause in tribute to healthcare workers during the seventh week of the Clap for our Carers initiative.

Ever since lockdown began on 23 March, hair salons have been closed and people have been forced to come up with alternative methods to keep their locks in check.

The UK was ill-prepared to deal with a health pandemic, according to a secret Whitehall document produced years before the coronavirus outbreak.

Brits have been urged to stick to the coronavirus lockdown rules over the Bank Holiday weekend as temperatures are set to soar.

Wales has taken the first step to easing lockdown by relaxing exercise rules and reopening some libraries, tips and garden centres.

Police have released CCTV footage of a man they want to trace after an NHS doctor was attacked on her way home from work.