The Queen has delivered an unprecedented address praising health workers and evoking the spirit of the Blitz as the UK grabbles with the coronavirus crisis.
It comes as two frontline health workers became the latest NHS staff to die after testing positive for coronavirus.
Today it emerged that midwife Essex Lynsay Coventry, 54, and "long-serving" Liverpool nurse Liz Glanister were among the killer bug's casualties.
It comes as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he has lost two people he was fond of as he empathised with how difficult the coronavirus pandemic is for the nation.
The Health Secretary addressed Brits in today's press briefing after it was confirmed a further 621 people have died of Covid-19 in the UK, taking the death toll to 4,934.
Mr Hancock said the Government is not imminently looking to tighten the rules on exercising outdoors - but further measures could follow if people do not follow them.
Earlier today it emerged NHS nurse John Alagos, just 23 years old and believed to be the youngest health worker in the UK to succumb to the illness, had died.
This morning Professor Neil Ferguson predicted that between 7,000 and 20,000 people in the UK may die from Covid-19.
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