560,000 volunteers have now signed up to help NHS after coronavirus appeal

Key points

• 560,000 people offer to volunteer for the NHS, the health secretary has announced
• Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to announce a package of support for self-employed workers
• The number of people who have died in the UK after contracting coronavirus has risen by 43 to 465 – the smallest rise for a week
  
• The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the UK has risen by 1,542 to 9,529
• As well as the ExCel centre in London, it is believed that 10 more sites in the UK could be turned into makeshift hospitals
• The global death toll stands at 21,308, according to data from Johns Hopkins University