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🔴 Matt Hancock is expected to announce new restrictions as coronavirus cases in the UK have seen a consistent, two-day increase

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Matt Hancock: "This virus thrives on complacency"

The Health Secretary says the Government will be "stepping up the communications" around social distancing "until we can build up the mass testing capacity and ultimately the vaccine"

Matt Hancock: "I would rather get ahead of this here learning the lessons from what we've seen first in America, then in Spain and now sadly in France."

The leader of Birmingham City Council has said a whistleblowers' hotline set up by the local authority in August for people to report firms flouting Covid-19 restrictions has had more than 800 contacts

West Midlands Mayor Andy Street said there had been "a very notable increase in Birmingham and Solihull" infection rates in the last few days

There have been a further 150 cases of Covid-19 reported in Wales

Public Health Wales: "Public Health Wales supports the restrictions which are being put in place by the Welsh Government and Caerphilly Council"

British tourists could be forced to quarantine or take Covid-19 tests when travelling to EU countries under new bloc-wide rules

The UK's train passenger numbers remain low as the Government's back to work drive falters

Two of the world’s leading Covid-19 vaccine contenders may have to be stored at temperatures as low as minus 70 degrees celsius

Matt Hancock says the longterm impact of coronavirus can be "devastating"

The U.N. has detected virus cases in a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan

Teachers in a Bosnian village have built an open-air classroom to protect children from Covid-19