"So green shoots but only green shoots and we must not be complacent and we must not take our foot off the pedal." The day-on-day increase in the number of deaths reported on Monday was 15%, on Sunday 21% and on Saturday 34%. Thousands of new ventilators are also on the way and the first of these will be delivered to the NHS next week, Mr Gove added. "We are increasing the number of tests," Mr Gove said. The minister went on to say that a drug used to fight malaria was being tested for use against Covid-19.

Source: Daily Mirror March 31, 2020 17:30 UTC