UK coronavirus live news: four more areas of Wales to go into lockdown; Whitty calls for reduced social contacts

Restrictions for Newport, Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenau Gwent; Whitty calls for ‘break in unnecessary links between households’Whitty: UK could see 200 deaths a day by NovemberVallance says 6,000 new cases a day in UK, doubling every seven daysSummary of key points from Whitty/Vallance Covid briefingFollow Covid rules or see UK deaths return to spring levels, Shapps warnsGlobal coronavirus updates – live2.58pmBSTAnneliese Dodds’ first speech as shadow chancellor to a Labour conference this morning did not take place in the best of circumstances. The conference is online, which means that even if Barack Obama were speaking, it would still feel more like a YouTube video than an event. And Dodds was on shortly before the W hitty/Vallance briefing that is dominating today’s news.Still, we promised coverage, and here are the main points. The full text ishere.The Conservatives have wasted enormous amounts of public money. It is a file of failure that no carefully crafted Instagram story from the chancellor can hide.Just some examples; £130m to a Conservative donor for testing kits that were unsafe, £150m for facemasks that couldn’t be used by NHS staff, over £2.6 billion to be handed over in so-called job retention bonuses, to businesses who were going to bring staff back to work anyway, outsourced contract after outsourced contract which has simply failed to deliver.A responsible approach to the national finances. Because you ’re only as cavalier with publi...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - Category: Science Authors: Tags: Politics Coronavirus outbreak Health Chris Whitty Patrick Vallance Labour Science Infectious diseases Scotland Wales Labour conference 2020 Anneliese Dodds Source Type: news