Blueprint to be agreed for thousands for ventilators

A final design of ventilator that can be rushed into mass production is ­expected to be…

24 hours to avoid complete lockdown as Boris Johnson says stay at home advice is being ignored

Boris Johnson warned Britain faced a total lockdown within 24 hours amid growing concern at the…

Experts say we are 14 days behind Italy, as rules for UK bed rationing are released

The official guidance to intensive care doctors detailing the process for deciding who should receive critical…

Now we are in unprecedented territory, our old fads seem very decadent indeed

The advance of coronavirus leaves many contemporary obsessions looking extraordinarily decadent. Identity politics now feels like…

I’m writing my own plague diary. It may be history one day

I’ve started keeping a coronavirus diary to while away the hours under lockdown. Samuel Pepys it…

How Babylon plans to take on the coronavirus crisis

It’s Wednesday afternoon and instead of committing to the usual rush around his office in London’s…