LOCKDOWN PLAN ON HOLD AS PM REMAINS IN ICU

Ministers in the U.K. are expected to delay making an announcement on how and when to lift the lockdown, concerned about arriving at a decision while Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains in intensive care.

The government is understood to be working on a plan to extend the measures until next month as the rising death toll means scientific advisers are still unsure when the peak will be.

On Wednesday, the daily death toll was 938, the highest so far, bringing the total to 7,097.

Johnson is spending his third night in intensive care in a London hospital, and No. 10 said he “continues to make steady progress”.