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Health Secretary Matt Hancock was joined by Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam and England's Chief Nursing Officer Ruth May.

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The government reveals 19,116 tests were carried out in the UK yesterday - 5,706 tested positive. 19,304 people are in hospital with coronavirus symptoms, of which 8,958 coronavirus patients have sadly died.

Key points to take away from today's speech are:

• Matt Hancock states the condition of Prime Minister Boris Johnson has improved greatly, adding " the NHS has provided the very best care possible".
  
  

• Matt Hancock on the subject of PPE within the NHS "everyone working in a critical role must get the kit the need to protect themselves" before saying "There is a huge international demand for PPE and a global squeeze on supply," he says, with many countries placing an export ban on such equipment to meet their own needs.
  
  

• Mr Hancock insists that "there's enough PPE to go round", but that this should be treated as a "precious resource" and only used when there's a clinical need.
  
  

• Over 742 million pieces of PPE have been delivered to the frontline since the outbreak began states Hancock. Every NHS hospital has received a delivery every 72 hours and it will become daily over the next few days.
  
  

• Health Secretary admits "Going into the crisis we did not have a major PPE manufacturing industry".
  
  

• Sunderland and Exeter will soon get their own NHS Nightingale field hospitals, the chief nursing officer announces.

Professor Van-Tam says we are still in a "dangerous phase" as the number of new coronavirus cases in the UK remains at a high level. He adds it's "impossible" to say that we have peaked in terms of the number of people in hospital with the disease.

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The UK "continues to be broadly in line with what is happening in other countries" in terms of deaths, says Professor Van-Tam.

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The overall amount of cases in the UK has now risen to 70,272, with that being 5,195 new cases since yesterday. Total number of deaths is now at 8,958.

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To read a brief summary of last night's points and important measures click here.