Health Secretary Matt Hancock has called on 250,000 volunteers to sign up to help the NHS through the coronavirus crisis. Mr Hancock also warned that the Prime Minister's lockdown regulations "are not requests, they are rules". "The more people follow the rules, the faster we will get through this," he stated during the briefing at 10 Downing Street.
Announcing the plans to set up an army of volunteers, he said: "We are seeking a quarter of a million volunteers, people in good health, to help the NHS, for shopping, for delivery of medicines and to support those who are shielded to protect their own health," He announced that a new hospital will be opened at the ExCeL Centre in East London.