UK coronavirus live: no new Covid-19 deaths recorded in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Senior NHS figures warn Boris Johnson to plan for second wave; infection rate could be increasing in some areas, including north-west EnglandUK failure to lock down earlier cost many lives, top scientist saysPrime minister told to dump rhetoric and plan for new Covid waveBlack Lives Matter protests risk spreading Covid-19, says HancockCovid-19 in the Commons: ‘How can you plot and keep 2m apart?’Coronavirus – latest global updates 2.44pm BST Five more people have died after contracting Covid-19 in Wales, taking the country’s total death toll to 1,398.Figures from Public Health Wales also showed there were 40 new recorded cases of the virus, taking the total number of infections to 14,396. 2.32pm BST Scottish first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has warned that “we can’t read too much into a single day’s figures” after Scotland reported no deaths for the first time since lockdown began. “We know registration of deaths are relatively low at weekends,” said Sturgeon.We can’t read too much into a single day’s figures – and we know registration of deaths are relatively low at weekends – but nevertheless this is a headline we’ve all longed to see. https://t.co/fuSxysnPE1 Continue reading…
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