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The number of coronavirus deaths in UK hospitals has risen by 401 today.
NHS England said 326 people had died in its hospitals, including two people between the ages of 20 and 39.
Scottish health authorities said 32 people died there, while Wales recorded 31 patient deaths. Northern Ireland recorded 12 deaths today.
Yesterday it was announced that another 501 people have died with Covid-19 in all settings.
An additional 22,915 people tested positive for the error, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 1,453,256.
During the Scottish government’s daily coronavirus briefing, Sturgeon said there were 32 coronavirus deaths and 1,018 positive tests in the past 24 hours.
There have been another 1,020 coronavirus cases in Wales, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 70,517.
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The Northern Ireland Department of Health has said there were also 369 other confirmed cases of the virus recorded in the past 24 hours.
A total of 49,085 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Northern Ireland since the pandemic began.
Scientists have stated that the crucial R number, which measures how fast the coronavirus is spreading in the UK, has now almost dropped to 1.
SAGE said today that the number in the UK is between 1.0 and 1.1, down from 1.0-1.2 last week.
That means that every 10 people with Covid-19 transmit the virus to another 10 or 11 people.
And because the figures come within a time span of up to three weeks, R may be below 1 already in England, SAGE said.
Britons could be allowed to reunite with their family at Christmas thanks to a decline in new infections, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.
“Of course it won’t be like a normal Christmas, there will have to be rules,” Hancock told Sky News.
He said he hoped the restrictions, which include a strict lockdown in England, could be eased to “allow a little more of that normal Christmas that people really expect.”
Hancock said he was working with decentralized administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, which administer their own policies to combat the pandemic, for a UK-wide rules approach to Christmas.
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There are “substantial differences” in Covid-19 infection rates in England, with increases in London, the East of England and the South East, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Data from 8 to 14 November suggest that the overall national infection rate for England is similar to the previous week, but there are sharp regional divisions, with rates increasing in primary school-age children.
The ONS said: “Over the past week, infection rates have continued to rise in London, the East of England and the South East, however now rates appear to be decreasing in the North West and East Midlands.”
“The highest rates of Covid-19 infection remain in the North West and in the Yorkshire and Humber.”
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Welsh Prime Minister Mark Drakeford told BBC TV that there would be a meeting next week to work out the details, and he hoped that people in Wales would be able to see family and friends in England “in the simplest and most direct way. we can devise. together. “
London Metropolitan Police Chief Cressida Dick said that while police might try to stop wild parties, there were better uses of police time than trying to catch families.
“Let’s see what the rules are, but I have no interest in interrupting family Christmas dinners,” he told LBC radio.
England has been under lockdown for two weeks, which Hancock said was helping to flatten the number of cases. It is scheduled to end on December 2, although the ministers have not ruled out that it could be expanded.
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