Coronavirus updates: Boris Johnson in hospital with ‘relentless’ symptoms

Summary

1. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will talk to professionals this afternoon
2. A state of emergency is anticipated to be announced after that meeting
3. Japan has 3,600 cases and 85 deaths
4. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains in hospital after suffering ‘persistent symptoms’
5. The news came quickly after the Queen addressed the nation
6. Cases in New York – the epicentre of the United States break out – are dropping for the first time
7. At his Sunday press rundown, United States President Donald Trump said “we see light at the end of the tunnel”
8. However 1,200 people with the virus in the United States died in the past 24 hours and the Surgeon General warned of a hard week