THEY SAID WHAT?

“We need to have a broader message because we want to slowly and cautiously restart the economy and the country”

- Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick explains the Government’s new slogan ‘stay alert, control the virus and save lives’.

“#StayHomeSaveLives remains my clear message to Scotland at this stage”

- First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

“The fewer contacts you have with other people, the more you suppress your own risk and the risk to others. So being alert is important but staying at home has not gone away”

- Wales’ First Minister Mark

Drakeford.

“It is important that we give hope to people but it is also important that we protect people”

- Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster, above.

“We should be testing every healthcare worker, for example, whether symptomatic or asymptomatic. We should be testing everybody in a care home”

- Shadow Health Secretary

Jonathan Ashworth.

“We have to be clear that this is not like a storm where we batten down the hatches and then it passes by and we walk out into the sunshine and it’s gone. It’s still out there”

- Professor Peter Horby, chairman of the UK Government’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group.

“The weather has helped – the fact that trees are greening and flowers are opening in front of our eyes is helpful and has pointed towards a future”

- Poet Laureate Simon Armitage says it is important to have hope.