The total number of coronavirus cases in the UK has reached 5,683 with the death toll jumping to 281, it has been announced.
As of 9am on Sunday, 78,340 people had been tested for coronavirus in the UK with 5,683 patients confirmed positive, the Department of Health and Social Care and Public Health England said.
A further 47 people have died in the UK in the past 24 hours, with Britain's death count around two weeks behind Italy's. It came as Boris Johnson urged those at the highest risk to stay at home for at least 12 weeks in a desperate bid to flatten the UK's peak.
He also told Britons to stay away from their mums on Mother's Day to protect them from Covid-19 and warned that the UK is just "two or three" weeks behind Italy, where