UK coronavirus: PM says Prof Ferguson's claim that delaying lockdown by a week doubled death toll is 'premature' – as it happened

Imperial College academic ’s team wrote paper that led to UK government announcing the lockdown;UK records a further 245 coronavirus deaths, taking total to 41,128Earlier UK lockdown ‘could have saved 20,000 lives’‘Support bubble’ plan lets single parents in England combine householdsUK economy likely to suffer worst Covid-19 damage, says OECDCoronavirus global updates – liveBlack Lives Matter protests – liveEvening summary8.52pmBSTWe ’re closing this blog down now. Thanks for reading and commenting. You can follow our global pandemic coverage here:Related:Coronavirus live news: Africa passes 200,000 confirmed cases after Burundi president dies of suspected Covid-19Related:George Floyd's brother testifies before House: 'He didn't deserve to die over $20' – live8.02pmBSTScores of patients may have received false positive Covid-19 results because of a fault in a testing machine at a hospital in Somerset.Musgrove Park hospital in Taunton is contacting 147 patients who tested positive over almost a month from the start of May.From around 27 May we began to see an increase in the number of inpatients at Musgrove Park Hospital who were testing positive for Covid-19 and we were working with public health colleagues to understand the cause of this.On Thursday 4 June, one of our vigilant laboratory managers noticed an unusual increase in the number of positive test results recorded by the laboratory ’s fast track machine. The laboratory moved quickly to retest on a...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - Category: Science Authors: Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Politics UK news Infectious diseases PMQs Boris Johnson Keir Starmer House of Commons Rishi Sunak Education Schools Chris Whitty Patrick Vallance Science Source Type: news