THEY SAID WHAT?

“Eight months of total support is a considerable amount of time and now that we have a plan from the PM, with a path to reopening those parts of our economy that are closed, I believe we can get the country back on track, get people back into work, and this scheme will help them do it in a measured way, in a phased way, and protect as many jobs as possible”

- Chancellor Rishi Sunak.

“Employers have a duty to keep employees safe in the workplace that is absolutely enshrined in law”

- Business Secretary Alok Sharma.

“It will, when we relax regulations, probably move upwards a little bit, but then it’s about pushing it back down again through the testing and tracing and isolating. So it’s all part of an integrated programme. And that’s why we need to have all of these ducks in a row to move forward”

- Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster, above, on what needs to be in place before the region’s lockdown exit plan can progress.

“We did a WhatsApp video in hospital, but then I didn’t hear from her again. I thought she might be asleep, but the doctor phoned me to tell me she had died”

- Lusamba Gode Katalay whose wife Belly Mujinga died after a man who said he had Covid-19 spat and coughed at her while she was working at Victoria railway station in London.

“We are shocked and devastated at Belly’s death. She is one of far too many frontline workers who have lost their lives to coronavirus”

- Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) general secretary Manuel Cortes.