Coronavirus: Biggest daily rise in UK deaths with further 87

The British army is helping to set up a 4,000-bed field hospital in London’s ExCel convention centre to treat people infected with coronavirus, as the government appealed for 250,000 volunteers to help the National Health Service (NHS). Britain’s death toll from the virus has risen by 87 to 422, after the country recorded its highest number of deaths in a single day. On the first day of a lockdown ordered by prime minister Boris Johnson, workers in some sectors remained uncertain about whether they had to go to work if their employers...