England, Wales and Northern Ireland recorded a further 70,924 Covid cases on Sunday Oliver Dowden, the Conservative Party chairman, said the 'signs are encouraging' for lifting Plan B restrictions within weeks
cases have been recorded across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the latest government data shows.
The Department of Health said a further 88 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus.The latest government data represents a 38% drop in positive cases in the past seven days, however the number of deaths has increased by 41.6% in the same time period. Oliver Dowden, the Conservative Party chairman, said earlier on Sunday the “signs are encouraging” for lifting Plan B restrictions at the end of the month.He told Sky News’ Trevor Phillips On Sunday programme: “It has always been my hope that we would have the Plan B restrictions for the shortest period possible.
“I’m under no doubt the kind of burdens this puts hospitality, wider business, schools and so on under, and I want us to get rid of those if we possibly can.On Saturday,, with around 40,000 teenagers eligible to get their third jabs.66,273 cases were recorded in the past 24 hours in England, along with 79 deaths.Northern IrelandNo new data for Scotland was available due to an IT error.
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