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The UK has recorded another 15,871 coronavirus cases and 479 deaths in the past 24 hours.
The number of cases is down from 16,022 on Friday and deaths are down from 521 as well.
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There have now been 73,000 deaths related to COVID-19 in the UK, while the number of cases has reached 1,605,172.
New data on Friday revealed that the R number has fallen between 0.9 and 1 across the country. R represents the average number of people each COVID-19 the positive person goes on to infect.
The new Tier 3 and Tier 2 government interventions, which should come into effect on December 2nd, it should keep the R number below 1 in the run-up to Christmas, according to a government adviser.
People have been protesting the closure measures in central London today, with police arresting 60 protesters.
Hundreds of protesters marched through the capital near Oxford Street chanting “freedom”, and some carried banners reading “stop controlling us” and “no more lockdowns”.
It comes as Conservative MP Michael Gove warned that England’s hospitals could be “overwhelmed” with coronavirus cases without level rules.
The Cabinet Office minister, writing in The Times, urged MPs to “take responsibility for difficult decisions” to curb the spread of COVID-19, amid anger from some conservatives that much of England will face strict restrictions.
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Gove said the decision to impose the restrictions was necessary to “pull the handbrake” and avoid the “disaster” of the NHS hospitals, and the private sector and the newly built Nightingale hospitals, which are filled to the maximum with only patients. with COVID and emergency cases.
Also today, the British government announced that it had appointed a minister of vaccines to take over the launch of the coronavirus vaccine, as his government seeks to quell a secondary rebellion over the new tier system.
Nadhim Zahawi, who is among Conservative MPs criticizing the new restrictions, has been appointed health minister responsible for the deployment of the coups, Downing Street said.
