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- - Health secretary Matt Hancock due to host Covid-19 update press conference at 3pm.
- - Deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries and Dr Susan Hopkins of Public Health England will join him.
- - Reports suggest the mutant strain of coronavirus is spreading across the country.
- - The reproduction number for coronavirus in the UK – the R value – is now reckoned to be between 1.1 and 1.3, latest Government data suggests.
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