In the meantime Nicola Sturgeon has threatened to close down pubs north of the border after footage displaying folks queuing to get into bars in Aberdeen, saying they “made her wish to cry”. Specialists from the Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Illnesses have warned the R charge has now pushed above 1 in some areas – that means the variety of new circumstances might double in 29 days. Hovering numbers of coronavirus circumstances have already prompted authorities in Better Manchester to declare a serious incident amid assurances that there’s “no trigger for alarm”.
The choice was taken by the Strategic Coordination Group on the weekend after they met to debate the elevated lockdown restrictions introduced final week throughout elements of the North West.
New measures forbid folks from completely different households from assembly one another inside their properties or in gardens, whereas additionally banning separate households from mixing in pubs, eating places and different hospitality venues.
Out of the highest 20 worst affected native authority areas for Covid-19 infections in England, Better Manchester boroughs – house to nearly Three million folks – comprise greater than a 3rd of the record, with seven entries.
Sir Richard Leese, Chief of Manchester Metropolis Council, stated: “Folks shouldn’t be alarmed {that a} main incident has been declared.”
He known as the transfer “customary observe for complicated conditions” and stated it will enable a “central command construction” to be created to allow companies to “draw on additional assets”.
“I’m now asking them to take heed to us: please reinstate the shielding coverage in Better Manchester from very first thing tomorrow.
“Failure to take action is improper and inhumane.”
The R charge within the North West is now 1.1, specialists have stated (Picture: GETTY)
North of the border, SNP MP Stephen Flynn tweeted two photographs of Aberdeen metropolis centre on the weekend, the place a cluster of 13 circumstances of Covid-19 had been found in The Hawthorn Bar. The MP stated he was “scunnered” by the photographs, which confirmed dozens of individuals queuing to enter pubs within the metropolis.
Retweeting the photographs, Nicola Sturgeon described the scenes as “harmful”, including it might outcome within the closure of extra bars.
She commented: “Spot on from StephenFlynnSNP – Covid stays an actual and current risk to our well being and wellbeing.”
Talking throughout at present’s coronavirus briefing, she added: “I’ve seen footage on social media over this weekend which have made me wish to cry.”
In the meantime, new fast assessments which might set up whether or not someone has COVID-19 inside 90 minutes are a “game-changer”, Enterprise and Trade Minister Nadhim Zahawi has stated.
Talking concerning the new quickfire assessments, Mr Zahawi advised BBC Breakfast: “This can be a sport changer as a result of the power to do a take a look at by simply over an hour or 90 minutes will make a large distinction to our response to coronavirus whether or not at hospitals if someone’s coming in for surgical procedure and folks have to know in a short time if they have coronavirus.
“You want to have the ability to take a look at very quickly and get these outcomes which are correct quickly.”
Requested if the assessments shall be utilized in care house settings, Mr Zahawi stated 50,000 assessments are being delivered to care properties every day, including: “This can make an extra distinction as a result of with the ability to administer these assessments with none scientific coaching is one other sport changer.”
(THIS IS A LIVE BLOG – SCROLL DOWN FOR REGULAR UPDATES)
4pm replace: Hays Journey to chop 20 per cent of jobs
Hays Journey is to chop as much as 878 jobs out of a complete workforce of 4,500 folks,
the agency introduced.
It’s the UK’s largest impartial journey agent.
House owners John and Irene Hays stated: “We’re devastated that in spite of everything of our efforts and the large funding we have made we now face shedding a few of our valued workers, by way of no fault of their very own.
“Following the choice to ban journey to Spain and the adjustments in furlough circumstances coming on the similar time, we now have had no alternative.
“We’re additionally devastated for everybody who might lose their job and we are going to do all we will in consultations to assist them, as we give attention to retaining as many individuals as attainable and rebuilding client confidence by way of our famend pleasant and educated customer support.”
3.30pm replace: Main selections about coronavirus ‘shrouded with secrecy’, in accordance with main scientist
Main selections about coronavirus have been “shrouded with secrecy”, a prime scientist has stated, as he known as for extra transparency over insurance policies regarding the pandemic.
Sir Paul Nurse, the director of the Francis Crick Institute, stated the Authorities ought to “deal with the general public as adults” in its communications over Covid-19.
He advised the BBC’s Immediately programme: “I feel we’d like better openness within the decision-making.
“It generally appears considerably shrouded in secrecy.
“And never solely that, however higher communication of what is taking place.
“Deal with the general public as adults.”
Nicola Sturgeon’s tweet (Picture: Twitter)
2.48pm replace: 5 extra hospital deaths in England
An extra 5 individuals who examined optimistic for coronavirus have died in hospital in England, bringing the entire variety of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals to 29,352, NHS England stated.
Sufferers had been aged between 66 and 95 years previous, and all had identified underlying well being circumstances.
One different dying was reported with no optimistic COVID-19 take a look at outcome.
2.45pm replace: Unions criticise Authorities’s back-to-the-office push
Commerce unions have criticised the Authorities’s determination to press on with measures to get folks again into the workplace, regardless of placing the brakes on different lockdown easing plans.
Beneath the brand new steering, which got here into pressure on August 1, employers can now ask their workers to return to the workplace if they’ve applied coronavirus-control measures.
Beforehand the Authorities had been asking everybody to make money working from home the place attainable.
The steering state that even these deemed “extraordinarily clinically susceptible” to the virus may be requested to return to work if they can not make money working from home.
1.50pm replace: Downing Road dismisses criticism by medical knowledgeable
Downing Road has brushed apart criticism from scientist Sir Paul Nurse that the Authorities’s coronavirus responses have been “shrouded with secrecy”.
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman stated: “We’ve got been sharing knowledge extensively with native authorities and native public well being groups in an effort to assist inform the choices that they’re taking over coping with outbreaks.
“Extra broadly there was common publication of paperwork regarding Sage’s discussions and minutes of conferences.
“Each the chief scientific adviser and the chief medical officer, and their deputies, have answered questions extensively in public on this, each earlier than Parliament and in briefings with journalists.”
1.05pm replace: Pubs might shut, warns Sturgeon
Overcrowded bars might result in the hospitality sector being shut down, Mrs Sturgeon warned.
SNP MP Stephen Flynn tweeted two photographs of Aberdeen metropolis centre on the weekend, the place a cluster of 13 circumstances of Covid-19 had been found in The Hawthorn Bar.
The MP stated he was “scunnered” by the photographs, which confirmed dozens of individuals queuing to enter pubs within the metropolis.
Retweeting the photographs, Nicola Sturgeon described the scenes as “harmful”, including it might outcome within the closure of extra bars.
She commented: “Spot on from StephenFlynnSNP – Covid stays an actual and current risk to our well being and wellbeing.”
Nicola Sturgeon has urged folks to observe the principles (Picture: GETTY)
12.37pm replace: “Observe the principles,” urges Sturgeon
The First Minister stated on the briefing that she understands the frustration after 4 months of lockdown, in addition to not with the ability to journey on vacation to completely different nations.
She added: “I urge all of you to please observe the principles.”
The First Minister stated that following the steering was not nearly private security, however the security of family and friends, in addition to the nice of the financial system, guaranteeing that restrictions don’t should be reapplied.
She stated: “Be in little doubt, if we now have to do this we are going to, as a result of we can have no alternative.”
The First Minister went on to explain tackling Covid-19 by way of the Check and Shield scheme as “like preventing forest fires”.
She added: “It takes monumental effort and large assets, and it’s at all times a race towards time.
12.31pm replace: No COVID-19 deaths in Scotland for 18th day working
There have been no coronavirus deaths in Scotland for the 18th day in a row, Nicola Sturgeon stated.
The First Minister gave the newest figures on the Scottish Authorities’s every day coronavirus briefing in Edinburgh.
A complete of two,491 sufferers have died in Scotland after testing optimistic for Covid-19.
Ms Sturgeon stated 18,694 folks have examined optimistic for the virus, up by 18 from 18,676 the day earlier than.
She stated 11 of those new circumstances had been within the Grampian space, although she couldn’t say if these had been linked to the outbreak in Aberdeen.
There have been 265 folks in hospital with confirmed Covid-19, no change on the day past.
Of those, three had been in intensive care, no change on the earlier whole.
Ayatollah Khamanei speaks through videolink final month (Picture: GETTY)
12.25pm replace: “One particular person dying even seven minutes in Iran”
One particular person is dying from COVID-19 each seven minutes in Iran, state tv stated on Monday, because the Well being Ministry reported 215 new deaths from the illness and state media warned of an absence of correct social distancing.
Well being Ministry spokesman Sima Sadat Lari was quoted by the state TV as saying the 215 deaths prior to now 24 hours took the mixed dying toll to 17,405 in Iran, and the variety of confirmed circumstances rose by 2,598 to 312,035.
State tv confirmed a number of Iranians in a busy Tehran road with out carrying face masks or social distancing.
Some specialists have doubted the accuracy of Iran’s official coronavirus tolls. A report by the Iranian parliament’s analysis centre in April recommended that the coronavirus tolls could be nearly twice as many as these introduced by the well being ministry.
Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus (Picture: WHO)
12.05pm replace: DW Sports activities enters administration placing 1,700 UK workers’ jobs in danger
Sports activities retailer and gymnasium group DW Sports activities has fallen into administration on account of the coronavirus disaster.
A complete of 1,700 workers are in danger on account of the announcement.
The corporate will now wind down its retail enterprise utterly, with its web site ceasing buying and selling with fast impact and closing-down gross sales beginning at its 50 remaining shops.
DW Sports activities is predicted to nominate insolvency specialists on Monday, after its earnings took an enormous hit by the coronavirus lockdown – which compelled its shops and gymnasiums to close.
11.56am replace: Greyhound stadium closure partly all the way down to coronavirus
The historic Belle Vue greyhound racing stadium in Manchester is to completely shut after its operators stated the coronavirus lockdown had a “significantly damaging impact”.
The stadium hosted the primary oval monitor race in Britain in 1926 and has additionally been used for speedway and inventory automotive racing.
Operators Area Racing Firm (ARC) stated there was “not a enterprise case to assist the continued operation of the stadium and workers of the location shall be made redundant”.
The agency added in an announcement: “As a stadium that depends closely on attendance, catering and hospitality, the nationwide lockdown has had a very damaging impact on Belle Vue, with racing behind closed doorways merely unable to maintain the enterprise.”
11.47am replace: “No silver bullet,” says WHO chief
The World Well being Group warned on Monday that whereas there have been sturdy hopes for a COVID-19 vaccine, there would possibly by no means be a “silver bullet” for the coronavirus which has contaminated tens of millions around the globe.
Director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus advised a digital information briefing from the UN physique’s headquarters in Geneva: “There isn’t any silver bullet in the intervening time and there would possibly by no means be.”
11.20am replace: Indian drugmaker will provide vaccines to the UK
Indian drugmaker Wockhardt Ltd will provide tens of millions of doses of a number of COVID-19 vaccines to the UK, together with the one being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford College, it stated on Monday.
The corporate has reserved fill-and-finish capability – the ultimate manufacturing step of placing vaccines into vials or syringes and packaging them – as a part of an settlement with the UK authorities, it stated.
Shares in Wockhardt jumped 10 % after the information in a downcast Mumbai market.
The UK authorities has additionally reserved one fill-and-finish manufacturing line at a Wockhardt subsidiary in Wrexham, Wales for its unique use for the following 18 months to safe provide.
Greater than 150 vaccines are being developed and examined around the globe to cease the pandemic, with 25 in human scientific trials, in accordance with the World Well being Group.
11.16am replace: McQueen exhibition to reopen on Friday
Tate Fashionable will reopen its Steve McQueen exhibition on Friday, it has been introduced.
The exhibition, which launched in February, has been closed on account of the coronavirus pandemic however will now be prolonged to September 6.
It is going to be a part of the three present customer routes around the gallery, which reopened final week and guests shall be required to put on face coverings.
Filmaker McQueen, whose credit embody Twelve Years a Slave, stated: “I keep in mind my first faculty journey to Tate once I was an impressionable eight-year-old, which was actually the second I gained an understanding that something is feasible.
“As all of us steadily emerge from lockdown, and in some methods start to see the world anew, I hope guests expertise that very same sense of risk.”
Filmmaker Steve McQueen (Picture: GETTY)
10.59am replace: BBC’s Andrew Neil uncovers fact behind 18 million worldwide coronavirus circumstances quantity
Andrew Neil has uncovered the reality behind the 18 million circumstances of coronavirus the world over.
Eight million circumstances of coronavirus had been recorded final month as nations corresponding to Brazil and India reported a surge in circumstances.
There at the moment are 18,247,451 circumstances of the virus worldwide however Andrew said of that quantity, over 12 million have now recovered.
He stated: “Of the 18m COVID-19 circumstances worldwide, thus far, 12m+ have been ‘closed’, by which is supposed 11.5m recovered and <700,000 died.”
10.54am replace: Native-led plan extra prone to succeed, says Liverpool well being chief
A locally-led plan to fight a rising variety of coronavirus circumstances in an space of Liverpool is “more likely” to succeed than nationally imposed measures, the town’s public well being chief has stated.
The “enhanced outbreak management motion plan” was arrange for Princes Park after nearly half of the rise in confirmed circumstances throughout Liverpool final week had been within the ward.
Group volunteers are going door to door to lift consciousness of testing availability and to advertise key public well being messages, whereas a pop-up walk-in take a look at centre can also be out there.
Different measures embody the suspension of forthcoming gatherings and occasions within the space, the continued closure of group buildings, and people shielding being suggested to proceed doing so for one more fortnight.
Matt Ashton, director of public well being for Liverpool, stated he doesn’t wish to see a extra draconian lockdown within the space after restrictions had been imposed on giant elements of northern England final week.
10.10am replace: 80 new circumstances in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has reported 80 new coronavirus circumstances on Monday, dropping beneath 100 infections for the primary time in 12 days.
Since late January, round 3,600 folks have been contaminated in Hong Kong, 37 of whom have died.
10.03am replace: Chinese language well being officers head to Hong Kong
Seven Chinese language well being officers arrived in Hong Kong on Sunday, the primary members of a 60-person staff that may perform widespread COVID-19 testing within the territory because it races to halt a 3rd wave of sickness.
The initiative marks the primary time mainland well being officers have assisted Hong Kong in its battle to regulate the epidemic.
The town has reported round 3,500 coronavirus circumstances and 34 deaths since January, far decrease than many different international metropolitan centres. However the every day variety of new infections has been in three digits for the previous 12 days.
Members of the testing staff, co-ordinated by the Chinese language authorities, are largely from public hospitals in Guangdong province, China’s Nationwide Well being Fee stated.
9.53am replace: Pub proprietor hits again at scientists demanding pubs’ closure – ‘Higher skilled than NASA’
Proprietor Jonathan Downey hit again on the UK’s prime scientists after members of the SAGE committee recommended pubs might have to shut as soon as once more to ensure that faculties to reopen in September.
Pub homeowners within the UK face the specter of closure once more after a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) recommended they could must shut down once more to ensure that faculties to reopen in September.
Prof Graham Medley recommended pubs could possibly be ‘”traded off” to make sure pupils resume attending class by limiting adults’ publicity to the coronavirus in social settings.
However Hackney bar proprietor Jonathan Downey dismissed the suggestion, insisting his workers have been skilled “higher than NASA astronauts” to make sure the security of customers when on an evening out.
Paul Scholes enjoying for Manchester United in 2006 (Picture: GETTY)
9.42am replace: Second ship hit by coronavirus – simply three weeks after journeys restart
Cruise ship holidays have solely just lately restarted globally after months of lockdown. Nevertheless, inside weeks of ships crusing as soon as once more, two cruise ships have been hit with circumstances of coronavirus.
A cruise ship in French Polynesia has reported a case of coronavirus onboard. A passenger on the ship – owned by Ponant – examined optimistic for the lethal virus. After the cruise information broke over the weekend, the vessel returned to port in Papeete, Tahiti.
The ship had initially set sail for Rangiroa, one other island in French Polynesia.
The information follows an outbreak onboard Hurtigruten’s ship MS Roald Amundsen in Norway.
9.39am replace: Russia circumstances spike by nearly 5,400
Russia reported 5,394 new circumstances of the coronavirus on Monday, pushing its nationwide tally to 856,264, the fourth largest on the earth.
Officers stated 79 folks had died prior to now 24 hours, bringing the official dying toll to 14,207.
Paul Nurse, director of the Francis Crick Institute (Picture: GETTY)
9.27am replace: Police converse to Scholes after home social gathering
Former Manchester United and England footballer Paul Scholes has been spoken to by police following claims he flouted lockdown guidelines by staging a home social gathering for his son’s birthday.
A seven-hour social gathering was held on the Oldham house of Scholes, 45, on Friday night time – the identical day widespread COVID-19 restrictions had been introduced in throughout Better Manchester which banned social gatherings in folks’s properties and gardens.
Scholes was photographed carrying a “Lockdown Reside” T-shirt on the occasion hosted by a DJ and stated to be attended by dozens of kids, The Solar reported.
His son, Arron, 21, was additionally photographed carrying the same T-shirt whereas daughter, Alicia, 19, who performs netball for Manchester Thunder, posed for a bunch {photograph} with buddies earlier than the celebrations.
In an announcement, Better Manchester Police stated: “On Sunday we had been made conscious of allegations of an earlier breach of Covid-19 restrictions at a residential property within the Oldham space.
“Consistent with regular process and policing by consent, officers attended and engaged with a person explaining the restrictions and inspiring them to be compliant.”
Enterprise and Trade Minister Nadhim Zahawi (Picture: PA)
9.17am replace: “We want openess and transparency”
Sir Paul added: “I will give one instance. On the top of the an infection I used to be at a choose committee in April and a public well being particular person I feel it was – they might have been from the Division for Well being and Social Care – was saying all of the testing wanted for the NHS was in place.
“But we confirmed on the Francis Crick, at the moment, 45 % of frontline healthcare had been contaminated they usually weren’t being examined as a result of capability was insufficient.
“Now, that is not a approach to earn belief from the general public. We want openness, transparency, scrutiny, and a management of individuals taking accountability for the decision-making, and we’d like it now.”
9.11am replace: “Deal with public like adults,” scientist tells Authorities
Sir Paul Nurse, the director of the Francis Crick Institute, stated the Authorities ought to “deal with the general public as adults” in its communications over Covid-19.
He advised the BBC’s Immediately programme: “I feel we’d like better openness within the decision-making.
“It generally appears considerably shrouded in secrecy.
“And never solely that, however higher communication of what is taking place. Deal with the general public as adults.”
9.10am replace: Age restriction stories “hypothesis”, says Zahawi
Enterprise and Trade Minister Nadhim Zahawi additionally described stories that there could be age-related coronavirus measures coming in in some unspecified time in the future as “hypothesis” and “inaccurate”.
Coronavirus circumstances within the UK (Picture: Specific)
8.50am replace: ‘We had been taking folks to die!’ Paramedic’s heartbreaking account of COVID-19 disaster
A paramedic has revealed the traumatic conditions she confronted throughout the top of the coronavirus pandemic in April this yr.
The paramedic, Samantha, was requested how dangerous it was in frontline care throughout the top of the pandemic.
She advised LBC’s Matt Stadlen that she by no means advised her household how dangerous it was as folks died on their very own.
Throughout the peak of the lethal virus, 4,419 folks died on the finish of April. The frontline employee famous she believes the coronavirus pandemic will lead to loads of NHS workers being identified with psychological well being issues.
8.38am replace: 90-minute assessments “a game-changer”, sayhs Zahawi
Enterprise and Trade Minister Nadhim Zahawi has described 90-minute assessments for coronavirus as a “sport changer”.
He advised BBC Breakfast: “This can be a sport changer as a result of the power to do a take a look at by simply over an hour or 90 minutes will make a large distinction to our response to coronavirus whether or not at hospitals if someone’s coming in for surgical procedure and folks have to know in a short time if they have coronavirus.
“You want to have the ability to take a look at very quickly and get these outcomes which are correct quickly.”
Requested if the assessments shall be utilized in care house settings, Mr Zahawi stated 50,000 assessments are being delivered to care properties every day, including: “This can make an extra distinction as a result of with the ability to administer these assessments with none scientific coaching is one other sport changer.”
London Mayor Sadiq Khan (Picture: GETTY)
8.35am replace: Germany posed to start testing travellers
Necessary testing of travellers returning to Germany from nations with a excessive threat of COVID-19 an infection will take impact later this week, Well being Minister Jens Spahn stated.
He advised German broadcaster ARD: “We’ve got first drafts.
“We wish to coordinate this nicely with the states as a result of they want to have the ability to implement it at airports and prepare stations.”
8.22am replace: Sadiq Khan orders Boris Johnson to STOP plan to ‘seal off London’
Sadiq Khan has ordered Boris Johnson to not seal off London in a offended letter during which he complains of not being knowledgeable of the Authorities’s plans.
Mr Khan was writing after information emerged regarding an train staged final week during which a serious resurgence of COVID-19 within the capital was central.
Stories in a number of media retailers recommended the M25 could be used as a “quarantine ring” – successfully sealing the town off.
Mr Khan write: “Our shock is such that far reaching contingency plans have been mentioned and examined with out the involvement of London’s authorities.”
Andy Burnham’s tweet (Picture: Twitter)
8.19am replace: Sewage surveillance stepped up in recent bid to halt second wave
Well being specialists are to start testing sewage to determine coronavirus hotspots throughout the UK.
Outcomes from the programme will point out which areas of the nation want to enter lockdown to stop a second wave of infections.
The assessments are being rolled out nationwide after trials throughout 44 websites in England offered correct data on native COVID-19 flare-ups.
The scientists behind the assessments imagine contaminated folks shed virus materials in faeces inside hours of signs showing, that means common checks of sewage might determine the presence of the virus a lot faster than swab assessments.
Beneath the prevailing programme individuals are solely examined as soon as they begin to present signs which usually take 5 days to look.
Researchers from Bangor College in North Wales have been analysing sewage since March and located the quantity of virus in samples plummeted after lockdown was imposed.
7.52am replace: HSBC suffers revenue crash
HSBC has suffered a 65 % drop in pre-tax revenue within the first half of the yr as Europe’s largest financial institution was struck by a dive in rates of interest and coronavirus disruption.
The financial institution reported earnings of 4.Three billion US {dollars} (£3.2 billion) within the half yr to June 30, down from 12.Four billion {dollars} (£9.5 billion) in the identical interval in 2019.
The financial institution has endured a torrid yr on the markets with the London listed shares falling greater than 40% from 595p to 342p as of June 30.
Group chief government Noel Quinn stated: “Our first half efficiency was impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, falling rates of interest, elevated geopolitical threat and heightened ranges of market volatility.”
7.43am replace: Main incident in Better Manchester
Hovering numbers of coronavirus circumstances have prompted authorities in Better Manchester to declare a serious incident amid assurances that there’s “no trigger for alarm”.
The choice was taken by the Strategic Coordination Group on the weekend after they met to debate the elevated lockdown restrictions introduced final week throughout elements of the North West.
New measures forbid folks from completely different households from assembly one another inside their properties or in gardens, whereas additionally banning separate households from mixing in pubs, eating places and different hospitality venues.
Out of the highest 20 worst affected native authority areas for Covid-19 infections in England, Better Manchester boroughs – house to nearly Three million folks – comprise greater than a 3rd of the record, with seven entries.
