UK coronavirus live: Croatia, Austria and Trinidad and Tobago added to quarantine list – as it happened

Shapps announces change asPortugal added to Covid safe list;Birmingham ‘likely to join Covid watch list’as cases rise; Sturgeon keeps Scotland incurrent state of lockdownas country records 77 new casesPortugal added to Covid safe list as Croatia taken offCoronavirus cases in England rise by 27% in a weekGovernment spends £56m on consultants to help with pandemicEnd of eviction ban ‘could lead to Covid surge’Global coronavirus live: latest updates6.58pmBSTThat ’s all from me today, folks. Thanks for reading. Here is a summary of today’s key events:6.30pmBSTThe shadow transport secretary, Jim McMahon, is calling on the government to publish the evidence behind its decision to add Croatia and other countries to its quarantine list.Passengers and airlines need confidence in government decision making. We ’ve got to see the evidence for what countries are quarantine free and which aren’t.https://t.co/aOoj7A5ZoyContinue reading...
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