Here is a summary of the main points from the press conference (at the top), as well as our main stories from the day (lower down). Boris Johnson said it was “inevitable” that there would be “many, many job losses” this year because of the impact of coronavirus on the economy. Technically the UK has not yet reached the official benchmark for a recession - two successive quarters of negative growth - but in practice the economy is already shrinking considerably, with some forecasts saying the country is facing the deepest recession for 300 years. Johnson seemed to acknowledge this when he said: I am afraid tragically there will be many, many job losses. That is just inevitable. But he also said the government would be as “as activist and interventionist” in helping people in the next phase of the crisis as it has been up to now. (See 5.41pm.) Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief scientific adviser, refused to explicitly back the government’s decision to impose quarantine on new arrivals to the UK from next week. He also implied that scientists are sceptical about the policy generally. Asked if Sage, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, had endorsed this timetable, he said dates and policy were a matter for ministers. He also said quarantine works best when the infection rate is low in the country receiving visitors and high in those countries sending them in. This is not the case with the UK at the moment vis-à-vis arrivals from most EU countries. Prof Chris Whitty, the government’s chief medical adviser, said it would take “quite some time” before the new test and trace system was working at full capacity. He said: The new thing that has been brought in - and it is definitely, as you imply, in the early stages of its development, but it is definitely there, and definitely working, but it will work a lot better over time - is the new element of test and trace ... We are not yet at cruising altitude for this. The number of tests is going to keep on going up and our ability to use the tests we have got is going to carry on going up. This is going to carry on for quite some time before we get to the point where we are all satisfied we have got to the point we need. Johnson ducked a question about whether Britons would be able to take a foreign holiday this summer. Asked if it was safe to book one, he replied: I’m not going to give advice on individuals’ travel arrangements, but you know what the Foreign Office guidance is... everybody at the moment should avoid non-essential travel. He claimed he was a Sinophile. Asked about Huawei and whether he would now exclude it from the 5G network, he said he wanted solutions that worked for UK security. But he went on: I want to stress one thing. I am a Sinophile. I think China is an incredible country and an extraordinary civilisation. And I deeply disapprove of anti-Chinese xenophobia - attacks on people of Chinese appearance that we have seen in recent months. We must stamp out such xenophobia. I see absolutely no contradiction with what I’ve said earlier about Hong Kong and high-risk vendors in critical national infrastructure and wanting a good, friendly, clear-eyed, working relationship with China and that’s what this country will have. He said the UK was talking to other European countries about setting up “air corridors” that could allow them to bypass the quarantine rules. Priti Patel, the home secretary, is facing mounting calls to publish the scientific advice behind the decision to enforce a 14-day quarantine period on all arrivals into the UK months after the pandemic began. The Metropolitan police are facing claims of bias after figures showed that officers enforcing the coronavirus lockdown were more than twice as likely to issue fines to black people as to white people Health and social care workers could be asked to volunteer to look after people with Covid-19 without wearing protective equipment in the event of extreme shortages, according to proposals seen by the Guardian. Theresa May has launched a double attack on Johnson’s government, speaking in the Commons to first warn about the security implications of a final no-deal Brexit, and then against the coronavirus quarantine plans. Johnson has announced a government U-turn to allow MPs who are shielding to vote by proxy following an outcry over the treatment of parliamentarians with medical conditions or those who are looking after vulnerable loved ones during the coronavirus pandemic. That’s all from us for today. Thanks for the comments.