Ministers are studying proposals to begin easing the lockdown and re-start parts of the economy.

It comes as Boris Johnson reveals how close he came to dying from the coronavirus infection. In a newspaper interview with the Sun on Sunday, the Prime Minister said his doctors had made preparations to announce his death.

Meanwhile thousands of people have volunteered to take part in a medical trial, to establish whether blood plasma from people who’ve had coronavirus infection could help treat sick patients. ,

Kate Silverton presents BBC News reports from Political Correspondent Chris Mason and Health Correspondent Catherine Burns.

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