Scotland and Wales are relaxing some of their restrictions around gatherings and mixing with others.

Experts are calling on the public to practise ‘information hygiene’ to help stop the spread of falsehoods online.

That's the end of our live updates for today and for this week. We'll be back on Monday from 09:00 to bring you the latest on the coronavirus and its impact on our region.

In the meantime, you can find further information and updates about the crisis here.

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The Manchester Central Conference Centre (formerly the GMEX Centre) will be set up as a temporary hospital able to deal with a thousand patients during the coronoavirus pandemic.

It will be run by the armed forces and will open in mid April.

Image source, @mcr_central

The supermarket shop suddenly looks a little different. So how are people managing under the new restrictions?

Social media has been full of people sharing their experience of shopping while keeping 2m (6ft 6in) apart.

Adrian Barrowdale said he had felt nervous before a shopping trip in Manchester but was relieved by how well the supermarket managed shoppers.

He said:

You'll Never Walk Alone is among tracks enjoying renewed popularity amid the coronavirus crisis.

Vice chairman of Tranmere Rovers Nicola Palios has tweeted a suggestion for local people who are stuck at home at the moment.

She's asked anyone who can sew to create a 4x4 inch square to be part of a larger piece of work to go on display when the coronavirus pandemic is over "as a reminder of dark times and of hope".

The actual Aintree Grand National horse race may be off, but next weekend will still feature a televised Virtual Grand National.

Image source, Inspired Entertainment

Forty runners who would have been most likely to line up will take part, using CGI technology and special algorithms.

Tiger Roll had been due to seek an unprecedented third consecutive win in the big race on Saturday, 4 April before it was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The virtual race will be broadcast by ITV at 17:00 the same day.

"There was going to be pink balloons, unicorns - and her Girl Guide group were going to perform her favourite song in sign language."

Hayley Smallman, from Liverpool, wanted the funeral for her 18-year-old daughter, Holly, to be a massive celebration of her life - in a venue big enough for the hundreds of people she expected to turn up.

Image source, Hayley Smallman

Instead, because of social distancing due to coronavirus, it's going to be held in a nearly-empty building.

Holly was born with a series of serious medical problems that left her unable to see or speak. She spent her life under the care of a children's hospice, and died on 13 March 2020, aged 18.

"I am so scared of going into an empty crematorium. My son and daughter are petrified," Hayley told Radio 1 Newsbeat.

"Then we have to come home to an empty house without anyone there to, you know, hold us up".

A food company in Preston is donating up to 150 freshly-made ready meals each day to NHS staff working at Royal Preston and Chorley and South Ribble hospitals during the coronavirus crisis.

Image source, LTHC

Chicken supplier Gafoor Limited, which is owned by the Vaza family, has also donated £100,000 to Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to help it during the coronavirus pandemic.

The family also co-own the Imperial Banqueting Suite in St Marys Street North and have offered to make the building available free of charge to the NHS if needed.

Tahir Vaza said:

Paula Wilson, head of fundraising for the hospital trust, said thanked the company for its "generosity and kindness".

She said:

Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service has tweeted some pictures for families to print off and have a go at colouring-in during the stay-at-home coronavirus lockdown.

Manchester's Parklife festival has been cancelled amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The two-day event was due to take place in June in Heaton Park.

Organisers said they were "really disappointed" but had to make the "unavoidable decision".

Image source, Parklife

In a tweet, external, organiser Sacha Lord said: "The safety of our customers, staff and artists come first."

People who have already bought tickets will be contacted about a refund or the option of keeping their tickets for the 2021 festival.

Police on patrol in Liverpool have tweeted a reminder for people not to gather in groups during the coronavirus lockdown.

It may have got everyone chatting but some are talking about whether it is actually safe.

Ashton-under-Lyne MP Angela Rayner has said she has coronavirus symptoms.

Writing in a tweet, she said she was in self-isolation after her symptoms worsened, and she expected to be "a bit quieter than usual".

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus.

Mr Johnson said he developed mild symptoms over the past 24 hours, including a temperature and cough.

He said he will now self-isolate in No 10 but will "continue to lead the government's response via video-conference as we fight this virus".

Mr Johnson was last seen on Thursday night, as he clapped outside No 10 as part of a nationwide gesture to thank NHS staff.

A further 21 people have died from the virus in the North West in the last seven days, bringing the total number of deaths in the region to 68, including Cumbria.

The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the region currently stands at 930.

The region's NHS trusts released the following lists of deaths at their hospitals:

• Countess of Chester of Chester: 1
• Lancashire Teaching Hospitals: 2
• Manchester University Hospitals Trust: 2
• Pennine Acute Hospitals: 1
• Salford Royal: 3
• Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care: 4
• University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay: 7
• Wirral University Teaching Hospital: 1

Police in Liverpool have shared photos of the city's empty streets, including this one of the Three Graces lit up in blue as part of a nationwide campaign to show support for the NHS.

Image source, @MerPolCityCen

Royal Manchester Children's Hospital is appealing for businesses to donate food, drink and toiletries to support their staff.

But the hospital is asking that donations are not taken directly to the hospital.

Here is a full list of items the hospital needs, external.

Image source, Google

To enable deliveries to be made safely and in line with current social distancing rules, businesses are asked to contact the charity team on 0161 276 4522 or email charity.office@mft.nhs.uk

Bins will be collected once a week in Oldham from Monday, replacing the usual three weekly collections.

Residents are asked to only put out grey bins by 07:00 on the usual collection day.

No other bins will be collected for the time being.

For now all waste materials - including food and recycling - can be placed in the grey bins, the council said.

Councillor Sean Fielding, Leader of Oldham Council, said:

Arkwright Street Household Waste Recycling Centre, and the other sites across the area, have been closed by Recycle for Greater Manchester following the government announcement that people should stay at home.

Further more information visit the Oldham Council website, external.