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Matt Hancock said that nearly 10,000 people a day contract coronavirus, admitting the number is “too high.”
The health secretary said nearly 10,000 people a day contract coronavirus, though still less than the estimated “100,000 per day” during the spring peak.
He called on people to download the recently launched NHS tracking app to “make the country a safer place.”
Speaking to Sky News, he said: “The massive testing capacity that we have helps find where the virus is, so if you think about it, yesterday we had a figure that there are over 6,000 people who have tested positive on the previous test. 24 hours.
“And that’s comparable to the highest levels at the peak in terms of the number of people who tested positive, but back then we estimated through surveys that over 100,000 people a day contracted the disease, but we only found about 6,000 of them and they tested positive.
“Now we estimate that fewer than 10,000 people a day get the disease, that’s too high, but it’s still much lower than the peak, and through the massive tests that we have and the capacity of a quarter of a million, we found yesterday more than 6,000 of them.
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“That allows us to trace the contacts of everyone who tested positive and find who they have been in contact with.
“Also, today with the application, if you download it, you will also have that additional protection for you and your loved ones.”
The Health Secretary also said that financial support to replace the license plan, which Chancellor Rishi Sunak will announce later today, had been in place since the summer.
He told Sky News: “The Chancellor is going to present the details in the House of Commons later and I will let him do it.
“What you’ve seen in the last nine months since this crisis started, you’ve seen an unprecedented amount of financial support to keep jobs, to support companies that have been terribly affected by this, and we are determined to That should continue. “
When asked why the Chancellor had waited until almost October to announce the measures, Hancock said: “We have said at all times that unfortunately we cannot protect all jobs and all businesses.
“But I think in terms of the timing of this, we have been working on the winter plan for the economy and the options in case the cases started to increase again from the summer and with the Prime Minister having set the next steps in terms on the health side on Tuesday, now the Chancellor will come to the Chamber today, two days later, to establish the economic package for the accompanying winter plan. “
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On Thursday, the Health Secretary did not rule out the possibility that college students would have to stay away from home over Christmas to reduce the spread of COVID-19 if there were widespread problems with outbreaks on campus.
“We haven’t gotten to that point yet … I’m not ruling anything out,” Hancock told the BBC when asked about the possibility.
“We don’t rule out anything. It’s not something I want to do. But the important thing is, of course, we keep people safe and the virus under control.”
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