LIVE: Police break up gatherings as govt warns of ‘unlimited’ fines if coronavirus rules broken

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BREAKING: India’s Prime Minister has ordered a lockdown of all 1.3 billion people in the country for 21 days due to the coronavirus pandemic. More on this breaking story:

Police shut down BBQ in West MidlandsIn the House of Commons, Health Secretary Matt Hancock highlights how one of his ministers, Nadine Dorries, is back on the government front bench after recovering from coronavirus."So I welcome her back to her place."Testing for coronavirus is being significantly ramped up, Number 10 insisted following criticism of the government's response.

"Home is now the front line, and in this national effort, working together, we can defeat this disease. Everyone has a part to play."A sprawling London exhibition centre is set to become a makeshift hospital with 500 beds within the next few days as part of the government’s response to the coronavirus crisis,A team of military planners is helping the NHS to convert the ExCel Centre in the east of the capital into a hospital facility.

The spokesman added:"We have over 8,000 ventilators on the front line currently with 5,000 more expected to come online in the next few weeks. "It’s essential they can get to work without putting their lives and those of patients and the people they care for at risk. Only Prime Minister Boris Johnson, cabinet secretary Sir Mark Sedwill and England's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty attended the meeting in person.

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