Covid-19 update: UK economy set to shrink by 35 per cent in Q2, says OBR

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• The OBR has published its coronavirus analysis, predicting the economy will shrink by 35 per cent in Q2. Kate Andrews has the details on Coffee House, and James Forsyth explains below what this means for the lockdown.
• There have now been outbreaks of Covid-19 at more than 2,000 of Britain’s 11,300 care homes. Around 10 per cent of UK Covid-19 deaths take place outside of hospital, according to data released by the ONS.
• An editorial in the British Medical Journal has called the use of chloroquine to treat coronavirus ‘premature and potentially harmful’.
• A poll shows Brits rank amongst the most supportive of lockdown measures, even at the expense of an economic hit. Some 74 per cent say restrictions should continue despite the growing impact on the economy, vs 61 per cent in US and 54 per cent in Germany and Sweden.
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