Milton Keynes has 29 confirmed coronavirus cases today - but hundreds more untested people think they have it

But hundreds more local people who have not been tested are still convinced they have either had the infection or are suffering from it right now.

Four people have died after testing positive for Covid-19 at Milton Keynes Hospital, but is not known whether there have been any more virus-linked deaths in the MK community.

Throughout the UK 11,658 people have now tested were positive and the death toll has risen from 475 to 578. More than a third of the UK deaths so far have been in London.

The local authority area showing the lowest number of confirmed cases is still Kingston upon Hull, where there has been just one positive test. This is followed Blackburn with Darwen, North East Lincolnshire, Bracknell Forest , Hartlepool and the Isle of Wight, all of which have three.

The highest concentration of infection is in Hampshire, which today has 251 cases, followed by Birmingham and Lambeth.

Today Boris Johnson has called on governments around the world to work together to create a vaccine as soon as possible and make it available to anybody who needs it.

He said the race to find this vaccine would be boosted by £210m of new British aid funding.

"While our brilliant doctors and nurses fight coronavirus at home, this record British funding will help to find a vaccine for the entire world. UK medics and researchers are at the forefront of this pioneering work," he told a G20 summit.

"My call to every G20 country and to governments around the world is to step up and help us defeat this virus," he added.

Meanwhile shadow chancellor John McDonnell has called for all employers forcing people to go to work unnecessarily to be named and shamed.

Other developments today includepPolice have today been granted the power to fine people up to £960 or arrest them if they repeatedly break lockdown rules,

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced government help for the self-employed after figures showed almost one-quarter of them had been living in "relative poverty" even before the coronavirus pandemic.

And the NHS has now asked for 750,000 volunteers to help it tackle the crisis, after more than half a million people signed up overnight.

You can sign up here