40m ago
16:29
Daily coronavirus cases up by a quarter from yesterday
to 17,540
The government has updated its daily coronavirus
dashboard. And the key figure is startling.
The UK has
recorded 17,540 more coronavirus cases. That’s a new daily record (excluding
the Sunday figure inflated by the addition of cases that went missing) and an
increase of more than 3,000 - or around 25% - on yesterday’s total (14,162).
These figures are far higher than any recorded positive case figures at the
peak of the epidemic in the spring. That does not mean that overall case
numbers are comparable, because much more testing is taking place now, and the
overwhelming majority of positive cases in March and April were never picked up
by the figures. But the speed of the increase shows why ministers and health
officials are so worried about what will happen if the virus is not contained.
4m ago
16:15
Pubs and
restaurants linked to more than 30% of Covid infections amongst under-30s, MPs
told
At a
briefing for MPs from the north of England and the Midlands earlier, Prof Chris
Whitty, the chief medical officer, presented data showing that pubs and
restaurants are implicated in more than 30% of coronavirus infections amongst
the under-30s - the group amongst whom the virus is spreading most quickly,
according to HuffPost’s Arj Singh.
If you
include not just customers in pubs and restaurants, but people who work in
them, the figure for under-30s reaches more than 40% of cases.
Governo avalia medidas na “próxima semana”. “[Números são] os que tínhamos previsto”
Marta Moitinho
Oliveira
“Na próxima
semana tomaremos as decisões que não tenho neste momento condições de
antecipar”, disse esta quinta-feira a ministra da Presidência, Mariana Vieira
da Silva, na conferência de imprensa que se seguiu ao Conselho de Ministros,
perante perguntas dos jornalistas sobre a evolução dos números da pandemia, que
já ultrapassaram os mil novos casos diários.
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