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🔴 The Prime Minister takes the government's daily #COVID19 briefing answering questions from the press and public

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🔴 Government's daily #COVID19 briefing begins as PM Boris Johnson recaps the five tests for adjusting the lockdown

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🔴 PM announces ‘support bubbles’ for single households in England

👉 From this weekend, single adult households can form a "support bubble" with one other household.

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🦁🎬 Safari parks and drive-in cinemas can open from Monday, as well as zoos "provided visitor numbers are managed", the Prime Minister has announced

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🔴 Professor Patrick Vallance, the Chief Scientific Adviser, confirms that the UK's R-rate is between 0.7 and 0.9 again

👉 He says the R is below one in every region, and "shrinking" in every region

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🔴 There are roughly 5,000 to 6,000 new cases every day, says Sir Patrick Vallance, which is lower "but not yet very low"

He says about 15 per cent of Londoners have had it, but across the UK that is as a whole only around six per cent

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🔴 The Prime Minister said "of course we would like to be in a position" where primary school children could go back before the summer holidays but because of the continued prevalence of the disease, "clearly it's not down quite enough"

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