Priced at £30, which includes next-day or nominated day delivery, the Morrisons family recipe box, which is available across the UK, works out at just £1.50 per meal per head.

Heinz has launched a set of DIY kits for making ice cream with its famous condiments, including ketchup and mayonnaise, with fans on Facebook branding the move ‘sacrilege’.

The new test produced by Abbott has been approved by Public Health England after one produced by Roche Diagnostics was ratified two days ago. The Department of Health is in talks with both firms.

Home coronavirus test kits ran out online again in 80 minutes this morning after the Government said everyone over 65 can now get a test if they suffer Covid-19 symptoms.

Ministers have ordered production of up to 50 million new immunity tests as part of what experts hope will be a ‘game-changing’ development in the battle against Covid-19.

The government is to launch a new study to try and understand the current rate of infection in the UK and how many people have developed antibodies to the coronavirus.

In a major blow to the Government, experts said rapid coronavirus tests had not yet been proven to work and it could be some time until they go on sale in the UK.

The Prime Minister urged members of the public to heed the advice to keep up social distancing and revealed that British scientists will soon start trials for a vaccine.

Dr Martin Marshall, the chair of the Royal College of GPs, said there is a ‘shortage of available testing kits’ in the UK and he is campaigning for NHS staff to be routinely tested so they can keep working.