These are the lockdown rules as the UK Government extends restriction measures for at least three more weeks

The lockdown rules have been extended for at least the next three weeks as the Government continues to push the message to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.

Speaking to the nation at today’s press conference (Thursday, April 16), foreign secretary Dominic Raab said: "There is light at the end of the tunnel but we are now at both a delicate and a dangerous stage in this pandemic.

"If we rush to relax the measures that we have in place we would risk wasting all the sacrifices and all the progress that has been made.

"That would risk a quick return to another lockdown with all the threat to life that a second peak to the virus would bring and all the economic damage that a second lockdown would carry."

These are the rules members of the public need to follow during lockdown:

Only go outside for food, health reasons or work (but only if you cannot work from home)

If you go out, stay two metres (6ft) away from other people at all times

Wash your hands as soon as you get home

Do not meet others, even friends or family.

Remember anyone can spread the virus even if they don’t have symptoms.

Mr Raab said the Government needed to be satisfied of five things before it would consider it safe to adjust any of the measures currently in place.

They are:

- Protect the NHS's ability to cope and be confident that the NHS is able to provide sufficient critical care

- See a sustained and consistent fall in daily death rates to be confident the UK has moved past the peak

- Confident that testing capacity and PPE are in hand with supply able to meet future demand

- Data from Sage showing rate of infection is decreasing to manageable levels across the board

- Confident any adjustments to the measures would not risk a second peak in cases which would overwhelm the NHS