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“Today’s disappointing jobs numbers will heighten investor caution and raise concerns around the resilience of the US labour market – and to what extent the pace of the Covid-19 vaccination programme will boost economic activity and employment,” said Richard Flynn, UK managing director at Charles Schwab.

However, he has concerns about the idea of making consumers shop around for Covid tests: “It’s reducing competition in the industry – really, you need to have cheaper tests available to all consumers, not just if they book through a big holiday company.”

Association of Convenience Stores chief executive, James Lowman, said: “We strongly welcome the inclusion of local shops and other small businesses into the successful plastic bag charging scheme, which not only helps the environment, but is also a great way for retailers to raise money for local and national charities.”

GFG has been scrambling to raise new financing since its major financial backer Greensill Capital went bust in early March, which threw the future of Liberty Steel and its 3,000 workers into doubt. A further 2,000 people work at other GFG steel sites in the UK.

“April data illustrates that a surge of pent-up demand has started to flow through the UK economy, following the loosening of pandemic restrictions, which lifted private sector growth to its highest since October 2013,” said Tim Moore, economics director at survey compiler IHS Markit.

“Recently, some Australian Commonwealth Government officials launched a series of measures to disrupt the normal exchanges and cooperation between China and Australia out of Cold War mindset and ideological discrimination,” China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said in a statement.

Drugs companies are adamant that the patents are not the bottleneck here, it is manufacturing capacity. But the Indians and South Africans have disagreed, with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa decrying what he called “vaccine apartheid”, saying his country and some in South America could ramp up production.

“We were in Vietnam, and our original plan was to continue travelling around Asia,” says the freelance writer and travel blogger. “But once it became clear that this wasn’t really a possibility, we booked a flight to Greece for the end of March, with the intention of spending a few months in Greece, Montenegro, Albania […]

One business hoping for a mass return of office workers is Carl Forder, who owns the Pottergate Pantry sandwich shop in Norwich. When workers, including 5,000 at the nearby Aviva office, were told to work from home where possible, he saw an 80% drop in business.