To help NHS

address. People can only leave home for limited reasons and Britons overseas are told to return to the UK.

MARCH 25, 2020 Prince of Wales tests positive for Covid-19 but is displaying only “mild symptoms”.

MARCH 26, 2020 Millions of people clap on their doorsteps in the first nationwide round of applause for the NHS.

HEROES Public has saluted NHS fighters taking part in anti-government protests. Both his wrists and one leg had been broken.

In 2015 he was given a camera and filmed his journey for the BBC. Footage of the crossing to the Greek island of Lesbos from Turkey showed people clinging to a flimsy inflatable dinghy, terrified of drowning in the Aegean as the raft toppled over.

MARCH 27, 2020

Mr Johnson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock test positive for Covid-19, while Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty says he has symptoms of the disease and is self-isolating. More than 750,000 people sign up to join a “volunteer army” to help with delivering supplies and getting in touch with lonely people. MARCH 28, 2020

The total number of UK deaths from coronavirus passes 1,000. Amged El-Hawrani, left, a 55-year-old consultant, becomes the first frontline NHS hospital worker to die after testing positive for coronavirus.

MARCH 30, 2020 Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, 13, becomes the youngest person in the UK to die after contracting the deadly virus.

APRIL 1, 2020

The Wimbledon Championships , the UK’s Grand Slam tennis tournament, is called off.

APRIL 2, 2020 Chinese authorities ease lockdown measures on Wuhan, enabling many to leave their homes for the first time in months. Premier League football giant Tottenham Hotspur sparks fury after furloughing 550 non-playing staff.

APRIL 3, 2020 Areema Nasreen, 36, from Walsall, West Mids, becomes the first NHS nurse to die from virus. The new NHS Nightingale field hospital opens at the ExCeL centre in East London. The number of registered worldwide cases of coronavirus passes the one million mark.

APRIL 5, 2020

The Queen makes a historic TV broadcast to nation, evoking the Blitz spirit as she tells 24 million viewers: “We will meet again.” Mr Johnson, below, is admitted to St Thomas’s Hospital in London as his symptoms persist.

APRIL 6

It is announced that the PM is being treated in intensive care. Golf’s 149th Open Championship, at Royal St George’s, Sandwich, Kent, is cancelled.