Boris Johnson: "We're not cancelling events, not closing hospitality, not cancelling parties or people's ability to mix"
Chris Whitty: "I don't think you need a medical degree to realise that is a sensible thing" to limit socialising
Government Covid comms all a bit🤔
"I think there is a high chance that my original Christmas plans with family are going to be interrupted."
Professor Chris Whitty says he thinks a large number of people in society, including health care workers, are going to get COVID "simultaneously".
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UK reports further 1,041 Covid deaths, the highest daily death toll since April, and the highest number of cases since mass testing began https://t.co/CyLq9aQqPy
The fact the biggest political scandal in the country isn't the government handing Test and Trace to disastrous private contractors - condemning us to mass death and renewed lockdown - is the most striking current example of how just broken our media ecosystem is
"There's an increase in every part of the country... apart from the North East"
England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty says the statistics show that coronavirus cases are rising, apart from the places under "substantial additional measures"
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“I can assure you I wouldn’t do this unless it was absolutely necessary”
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson starts news conference, offering “apologies for disturbing your Saturday evening with more news of Covid”
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