Figures released today have confirmed that more than 150,000 people have died from coronavirus in the UK. (See 11.21am.) Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, has said that the ‘stay at home’ rule in Scotland will be replaced with a ‘stay local’ one from Friday. (See 12.34pm.) Northern Ireland’s chief police officer, Simon Byrne, has rejected a call to resign from the first minister, Arlene Foster. (See 4.49pm.) He also said he did not accept Foster’s suggestion (see 2.52pm) that the Police Service of Northern Ireland should have intervened to stop hundreds of republicans attending an IRA funeral, at a time when only 30 people were supposed to attend such events because of Covid. The row erupted after the the Public Prosecution Service in Northern Ireland said that 24 people, including Michelle O’Neill, the Sinn Féin deputy first minister, would not be prosecuted in relation to what happened. (See 1.50pm.) Low-paid key workers on the frontline of the Covid-19 pandemic would not be able to afford to buy the average priced home in 98% of Great Britain, an exclusive Guardian analysis has found. The world needs a global treaty for pandemics to protect states in the wake of Covid-19, akin to the settlement forged after the second world war, Boris Johnson and other world leaders have urged. More than one in four children in the north-east of England are eligible for free school meals, after new figures published by the government showed that the numbers have been rising since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Keir Starmer has stressed Labour’s pro-business credentials as he revealed that the shadow tourism minister, Alex Sobel, had apologised for saying he once saw business as “the enemy”. A report on the Metropolitan police’s handling of a vigil for Sarah Everard has concluded that officers acted appropriately. Sexual violence is endemic in schools and the government must launch an inquiry to establish how widespread it is, Jess Phillips, the shadow minister for domestic violence, has said. Thousands of British citizens in France have been left without a valid driving licence, or face losing theirs within months, because of bureaucratic overload and the failure of the two countries’ governments to sign a post-Brexit reciprocal agreement. That’s all from me for today. But our coverage continues on our global coronavirus live blog. It’s here.