The UK will now ensure daily deliveries of personal protective equipment to frontline workers, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said. He told the daily coronavirus briefing it had been a "Herculean effort", after criticism the government was not doing enough to protect critical NHS staff.
Officials told the briefing the lockdown was "beginning to pay off" but it was still a "dangerous situation".
The UK recorded another 980 hospital deaths, bringing the total to 8,958.
But England's deputy chief medical officer, Jonathan Van-Tam, warned it was "impossible to say we have peaked," adding that the measures the country was taking with social distancing needed to continue.
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