“In the past week, the number of positive cases in Preston has increased significantly and it is extremely important that we act now to prevent the situation from getting any worse.

“The evidence is clear, we all need to take extra precautions to protect our loved ones. Coronavirus affects all of communities and we all need to do our part to prevent the spread from continuing rise.

“The number of cases in Preston have increased rapidly in recent days leading to Government categorising the city as an area of intervention. It is also alarming to see that the under-30s are contracting it at a significant rate.

“While some wards have recorded a higher level of cases, this remains a city-wide issue and it’s essential that we all do our part to fight the virus.

“We’re urging everyone to be diligent and follow the restrictions, in order to protect all of our residents, communities and businesses.”

“The governments of all four nations have agreed to these changes based on a shared understanding of the data.

“This is another important step in our efforts to prevent the spread of the virus, and adhering to the quarantine is a vital aspect of this.

NHS England has reported six new deaths today, while Northern Ireland announced one and Wales and Scotland had none.

There have now been no deaths in Scotland for 25 days in a row.

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The Government said 46,526 people had died in hospitals, care homes and the wider community after testing positive for coronavirus in the UK, as of 5pm on Sunday, including 21 reported in previous 24 hours.

Separate figures published by the UK’s statistics agencies show there have now been 56,600 deaths registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.

Global coronavirus cases pushed past 20 million today, with the United States, Brazil and India accounting for more than half of all known infections.

The respiratory disease has infected at least four times the average number of people struck down with severe influenza illnesses annually, according to the World Health Organization.

A popular Middlesbrough restaurant has advised diners to stay alert to the symptoms of coronavirus after two customers tested positive for the virus.

The pair later tested positive for the covid-19 disease, on August 5, and contacted the restaurant, which is now working with Middlesbrough Council public health officials who are carrying out extensive contact tracing efforts.

August 3 was the day the new ‘Eat Out to help Out’ scheme launched and saw restaurants across Teesside packed out, with customers benefiting from £10 each off their food bill.

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The total number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic remains at 1,579.

Public Health Wales said the total number of cases in the country increased by 12, bringing the revised total of confirmed cases to 17,463.

But it may take a while to reinstate quarantine- free travel to Portugal, a source has claimed.

Last month, officials in Portugal blasted the decision – with the country’s ministry of state and foreign affairs saying at the time: “It is a decision that is neither substantiated nor supported by the facts.”

Pret has already warned that 1,000 of its 8,000 jobs could be lost as 30 of its 410 stores close. It hopes cutting hours will save some roles.

“Our priority is to do everything we can to save jobs. With footfall in our shops still significantly below normal levels, we have had to review the hours team members are contracted to work,” a spokesman told The Sunday Times.

Pret announced plans to close 30 stores last month, after the chain’s sales dived by 74% in the wake of the pandemic in March.

A further six people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospital in England, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals to 29,419, NHS England said on Monday.

The region with the highest number of deaths was the South East with four.

There were also two deaths in the North East and Yorkshire but all other regions of England recorded no deaths for the same time period, including the North West, where local lockdown measures are in place around Greater Manchester.

Plans for his 60th birthday have been delayed following his diagnosis.

Translated from Spanish, he wrote: “I want to make public that today, August 10, I am forced to celebrate my 60th birthday following quarantine after having tested positive for the Covid-19 disease, caused by the coronavirus.”

Health officials have announced plans to “strengthen regional contact tracing” in England.

In some pilot areas this has involved local authority teams visiting people at home, it added.

There have now been no deaths in Scotland for 25 days in a row.

Downing Street said a decision on how to report coronavirus deaths is to be announced soon, likely this week.

It comes after claims the UK’s official coronavirus daily death count could be scrapped following an investigation ordered by Matt Hancock.

Downing Street said a decision is likely to be announced soon, likely this week.

However, the spokesman suggested there would be no move to publishing deaths weekly, saying: “We’re working to resume publication of daily data on coronavirus deaths.”

He added: “We have been reviewing the publication of the daily death statistics and I’d expect us to be providing an update on this shortly.

“Any resolution to update the list of exemptions will be reported through the latest knowledge on physical fitness and we will be able to act and act quickly. We have updated the list of exemptions each week to make sure it reflects the adjustments to the external fitness situation. »

He added: “If there is a need to act very rapidly in order to protect public health, then we wouldn’t hesitate to do so.”

He continued: “Unfortunately, this pandemic, there is no safe way to travel abroad. The public has made a massive effort to get the disease back to the levels we’re seeing in the UK and if we feel we want to act on the travel exemption list, we will.”

He continued: “While we can modify the list at any time and remove countries from the exemption list, if there is a lasting improvement in suitability in a specific country, we can reinstate the exemptions or charge new ones.”

Ian Murray, Scotland’s shadow secretary, apologized to Sturgeon for the effects of the review.

He tweeted, “What about the apologies to the hardworking teachers that FM blamed last week? Or young people who have lost conditional university places. Without the censorship movement, that would never have changed. Let’s look at the main points. Parliament rather than at the press event.”

Speaking about problems with the SQA grading system, Ms Sturgeon said too much focus had been given to the system rather than individuals.

She said: “We will take steps to make sure that each and every young user gets a rating that recognizes the paintings they have made.

“Our fear, which is to make sure that the grades other young people get are as valid as they would have obtained in some other year, would possibly have led us to think too much about the total formula and not enough on the student individual.”

Sturgeon added: “This burden has not fallen in the same way in our society. Despite our intentions, I recognize that we have not succeeded and I am sorry.”

Nicola Sturgeon has announced that not all students who have had the effects of their recent degraded examinations through the appeal of the Scottish Qualifications Authority.

Speaking at the Scottish Government’s coronavirus briefing, the Prime Minister apologized for the effects of the reviews that were handled.

She said, “I recognize that we haven’t quite understood it and I’m for that.”

Prime Minister Sturgeon said an extension of the Aberdeen closure could simply be ruled out.

Speaking at the Scottish government’s briefing on coronavirus, he said the restrictions would not remain in place any longer than necessary.

He added: “Once we’ve done that, we’ll have to make sure we do it for enough time for the cluster and the epidemic, so I can’t and won’t rule out the option we’ll have to make bigger for a few other days.

Sturgeon said there have been 231 cases of coronavirus in Aberdeen since the local outbreak began on 26 July.

Of these, 157 were similar to the Covid-19 group and 852 contacts were identified.

Scotland has recorded 29 new cases of coronavirus in the more than 24 hours, Nicola Sturgeon announced.

The figure has fallen 19 of the 48 shown on Sunday and raised the total number of other people in Scotland who tested positive for the virus by 19027.

Speaking at the Scottish Government’s regular coronavirus briefing, the First Minister said no deaths have been recorded of patients who tested positive for coronavirus in the previous 28 days.

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A Co Offaly meat factory that has been hit by a Covid-19 outbreak has been urged to close amid tightened coronavirus restrictions in Ireland.

Three virus-affected plants in the 3 counties covered by the localized infection stages have stopped operations.

The outbreak of case restrictions in Offaly, Kildare and Laois has been linked to outbreaks in meat processing plants.

Plants intensified when blankets became mandatory at Ireland outlets on Monday, and those who break the law could face a fine of 2500 euros or six months in prison.

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organisation, praised the decision to implement local lockdowns in the UK.

He said at a virtual press conference that the number of International Covid-19 instances will succeed in 20 million instances this week and that the number of international deaths will be 750,000.

“In recent days, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has placed northern England spaces beneath home stay notifications, while instance teams have been identified,” he said.

“In France, President Emmanuel Macron introduced mandatory masking in the crowded spaces of Paris in reaction to the accumulation of cases.

“Strict and accurate measures like these, combined with the use of all equipment at our disposal, are to prevent covid-19 resurgence and allow corporations to reopen safely.”

Boris Johnson said ministers would “not hesitate” to impose a quarantine formula for travellers from countries to the UK if necessary.

The Prime Minister said: “I don’t want to advise people about their individual holidays, individual decisions, they should look at the travel advice from the Foreign Office clearly.

“But what I will say, and I hope people would expect us to do this, in the context of a global pandemic, we’ve got to keep looking at the data in all the countries to which British people want to travel.

When it comes to imposing restrictions or imposing a quarantine system, we will not hesitate to do so.

“It has been a massive effort for the entire population of this country to carry the disease to the degrees we are seeing lately, however we do not want to reindefecize and that is why we want to be very, very attentive to the disease. Knowledge in destinations around the world. »

Boris Johnson said: “It’s not general that young people spend more time out of school, it’s much better for their physical condition and intellectual well-being, obviously their educational perspectives, if everyone returns to school full-time in September.

“It is our duty as a country to make this happen.”

The prime minister set a conciliatory tone for school unions, praising the paintings they had made to protect classrooms.

Speaking to journalists at a school in east London, he said: “It is very vital that everyone paints in combination to make sure our schools are and are, they are insured through Covid. I was very inspired by the paintings of the masters. Arrange in collaboration with unions to make sure all schools can go back in September.

“A lot of work being done over making sure that there’s social distancing, bubbling, staggered start times, all that kind of thing.

“But the plan is there: bringing everyone back in September is the right thing for everyone.”

Boris Johnson said he understood the anxiety that academics expected the effects after the exams were canceled and said he was “very interested” in returning to general exams during the next school year.

“I am very, very willing for the exams to be done normally. Exams are an important component of our education and I thank all teachers for all the arrangements they make,” he told reporters on a stopover at a school in east London.

“Obviously, because of what has happened this year, there is some fear about the grades students will get, and everyone understands the formula where grades are set, and then there is a standardization formula.

“We will do everything we can to make the harsh paintings of the scholars reflected well.”

Boris Johnson said he hoped schools would not be forced to close as a result of local action.

The Prime Minister, who was visiting a school in east London, said: “I very much hope that doesn’t happen for any pupils but clearly what we are doing – the way we are trying to manage the Covid pandemic – is to have local measures in place and local test and trace to introduce restrictions where that’s necessary.

“But, as we’ve all said, the last thing we have to do is close the schools.

“We believe that schooling is the history of the country and that it is an undeniable social justice system.”

Boris Johnson faces widespread calls to coronavirus detection and detection to safely reopen schools to all academics without imposing further restrictions on commercial or social life.

The prime minister said the “national priority” is for young people to return to school in England next month, but warned through clinical advisors that “commitments” may be needed to restrict transmission.

Teachers, scientists, opposition politicians and England’s Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield have asked for more before the return of the students.

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Kate Garraway has admitted that her husband Derek Draper is “a waiting game” as she continues her fitness war in the hospital.

It’s been more than 4 months since the other part of the Good Morning Britain host was hospitalized after getting a coronavirus.

The 55-year-old man’s condition deteriorated, prompting a medically induced coma and, although he has been free of COVID-19 for months, his war with the virus has left him with lasting damage.

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