Lockdown could go on for weeks as ministers 'weigh up UK's health versus wealth'

Government sources warn as long as the UK's coronavirus deaths keep increasing a conversation about lifting lockdown is still squarely in the distant future

Government sources admit that ministers are debating how to balance tackling the coronavirus against the economic effect of the lockdown.

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