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latest UK updates: Boris Johnson to hold COVID-19 briefing – as row erupts between regions over differing Tier 3 rules
https://youtu.be/9Auq9mYxFEE
Key points
- PM to hold COVID briefing at 4pm
- UK’s R number edges up slightly to between 1.3 and 1.5 – SAGE warns transmission is ‘not slowing’
- Lancashire becomes the latest area to be put under a Tier 3 lockdown
- Daily cases in England rise to around 27,900, ONS data shows
- ‘We have the power to proceed’ with Manchester Tier 3 lockdown if talks fail, Raab says
- ‘Shut up and shut down now’: ICU doctor warns Manchester leaders opposing Tier 3 lockdown
- ‘A two-week circuit break national lockdown would help – but it is better done earlier rather than later’, says SAGE member
- Daily COVID fatalities could hit 240-690, scientists warn
- New rules have come into force across the UK – here’s what’s happening where
- Live reporting by Sunita Patel-Carstairs, news reporter