Self-employed workers facing financial difficulties as a result of coronavirus are set to be offered a package of support from the government. Chancellor Rishi Sunak will unveil the measures later. He set out plans for 80% wage subsidies for staff kept on by employers last week - and the PM has said he wants similar protection for freelancers. However, Boris Johnson added he could not promise the UK would beat the virus "without any kind of hardship at all". The total number of people in the UK to die with Covid-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, has reached 465. Mr Sunak said last week that the government ... (full story)