Two million people in the UK with respiratory conditions such as asthma have experienced reduced symptoms during the coronavirus lockdown.

The API has written to Boris Johnson urging him to set out when and how public playgrounds will be brought back into use.

Many of Wales’ local authorities are now embarking on the first phase of resuming library services – with a Click and Collect service.

There has been an 89 per cent increase in need for emergency food parcels during April 2020 compared to the same month last year.

Two in every five office staff are now working in an ‘inappropriate’ home-working environment as a result of the coronavirus crisis.

Southampton CC is to deliver a package of transformative transport measures to help people travel healthily in an era of social distancing.

Clive Betts has written to the Prime Minister requesting greater detail on the government’s approach to implementing contact test and tracing.

Local government leaders in the north-east of England have urged residents to disregard the government’s ‘reckless’ relaxation of the lockdown.

Community projects supporting people with their mental health during the coronavirus pandemic will benefit from their share of £5 million.

Ten NGOs have called on councils to make walking and cycling safer for children when they travel to and from school.

Sustained cuts to local emergency support schemes are leaving families with nowhere to turn in a financial crisis.

Councils need further clarity about when they will receive more government funding to help communities through this crisis and beyond.

Edinburgh is to use £5 million to support the creation of safe, accessible routes for walking, cycling and wheeling as lockdown restrictions are lifted.

BSI has published new safe working guidelines to help businesses manage a safe return to work and reoccupation of their facilities.

The new NHS Test and Trace service has now launched across England, seeking to help identify, contain and control coronavirus.

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