Around 140 police officers have been injured while responding to protests and illegal parties in the past three weeks, according to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner.

Leader of the House of Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg, has come out with another extraordinary explanation for the ever increasing death toll from coronavirus, suggesting that “the weather” is to blame.

Police officers, attempting to break up an illegal street party in the south of London, were injured as a result of violent clashes with the partygoers.

A chicken processing plant that has contracts with KFC, Tesco and Marks & Spencer has suspended production and closed due to a coronavirus outbreak.

Official government guidance for airlines and airports in Britain on how to operate safely and to minimise the risks from coronavirus has raised hopes that the country may soon pen a deal which would facilitate quarantine-free travel.

The head of England’s coronavirus test and trace programme has admitted the system is not yet “gold standard”, as new figures showed that a third of people testing positive failed to provide details of their recent contacts.

While restaurants, cafes, pubs and bars have been ordered to shut, food deliveries and takeaways are still allowed.

It remains unclear why it has taken the government more than two months to make face coverings compulsory on public transport and called for the policy to be extended to all places where social distancing is not possible.

More than a third of the 170,000 coronavirus tests claimed by the government to have been carried out on Wednesday were in fact kits sent out in the post, Downing Street has revealed.

Business secretary Alok Sharma going into self-isolation, having been tested for COVID-19 following a speech in parliament throughout which he was sweating, has revitalised a debate on whether lawmakers were ending virtual sessions prematurely.