UK coronavirus: Boris Johnson announces strict lockdown across country – as it happened

That’s all from us for this evening. Thanks for reading. Here’s a summary of the latest news:

• The most significant set of restrictions on British life in living memory were set in place as the prime minister ordered people to stay in their homes. Boris Johnson announced a nationwide lockdown in a bid to stop the coronavirus outbreak and warned that the police would be called in to enforce it.
• A swathe of businesses were ordered to close as part of the measures. With notable exceptions, retailers followed pubs and restaurants in being told to shut their doors after a weekend during which many people were still out and about, despite government pleas to isolate themselves.
• There was widespread support for the measures – but there were also calls for greater clarity. Both the Labour party, which has been calling for such measures, and trade unions largely united behind Boris Johnson as he took the drastic step in what he termed a time of “national emergency”. But political and trade union opposition also called on No 10 to offer the British people more detail on how, exactly, its plan will work.
• UK death toll increases to 335. The Department of Health and Social Care released its latest figures, showing that 6,650 people have tested positive for Covid-19 and 335 patients have died.
• FCO advises all Britons abroad to return home while they still can.The foreign secretary, Dominic Raab said the million or so British people on holiday or working abroad should return home now – before the option to do so disappears altogether.
• Emergency coronavirus legislation passed the Commons. The bill, which will hand ministers wide-ranging powers as they try to get a grip on the crisis, will pass to the Lords after MPs decided they could wave it through without the need for a vote.
• You can read a summary of the day’s earlier events here.

And my colleague in Australia, Helen Sullivan, is continuing our global coronavirus coverage here: