Boris Johnson is putting British industry on a war footing to help deliver the equipment that the NHS needs to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

In an unprecedented peacetime call to arms, the Prime Minister is asking manufacturers including Rolls Royce and JCB to transform their current production lines to help produce ventilators as part of a "national effort" to tackle the virus.

As ten more patients in the UK died from Covid-19, doubling the current death toll, Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, declares in an article for The Sunday Telegraph that "our generation has never been tested like this".

He urges the country to pull together like it did during the Second World War, and says firms "cannot make too many" ventilators - which the Government will commit to purchasing.

Of the latest 10 deaths in the UK, eight were men aged over 80. All but one had known underlying health conditions. A mother and her newborn baby also tested positive for the virus. The number of cases continue to rise, as shown below.