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BREAKING: An estimated 618,700 people in England had Covid-19 last week, Office for National Statistics show<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the second national lockdown came into effect yesterday, Liverpool\u2019s city-wide coronavirus testing begins this morning. Everyone living and working in the city will be offered repeat tests whether or not they have symptoms. Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson said the city had \u201cnothing to lose\u201d from taking part in this widescale testing. This is the first trial of whole city coronavirus testing in England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK government have removed Denmark from its list of travel corridors due to widespread outbreaks of a new strain of Covid-19 in its mink farms. The Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the \u201cvariant strain\u201d of the virus was spreading to local Danish communities. A cull en masse of minks has been ordered to farmers by the Danish government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 24,000 cases of Covid-19 were recorded in the UK yesterday, and 378 deaths in the same time period. On the same day, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has re-introduced the furlough scheme across the UK until the end of March. The scheme which was implemented at the start of the first national lockdown but was then stopped on 31 October. The scheme, which has been extended to March 2021, will again subsidise 80% of a person\u2019s wage up to \u00a32,500 a month. It applies to those who cannot do their jobs either because their workplace has been told to close or there is no longer work for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ofsted say the number of babies in England that have suffered abuse or neglect is up by a fifth during the Covid crisis. Eight babies have died from their injuries and more than 300 \u201cserious incident notifications\u201d of injury and death concerning children were reported by local authorities between April and October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US has set a new record for daily new cases. The 4th <\/sup>of November saw more than 91,000 new infections with deaths rising. John Hopkins University found that new daily coronavirus cases in America have increased 45% over the past two weeks with deaths also rising by 15%. Cases in the US have now surpassed 9 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The University of Manchester erected fences on one campus as a \u201csecurity measure\u201d but admittedly caused unrest amongst students who pulled them down in protest. The barriers which were put in place at the University\u2019s Fallowfield campus were meant to \u201chelp avoid the mixing of households\u201d. This measure was not explained to residents in the campus building, however. University bosses have since apologised for causing \u201cconcern and distress\u201d and promised to take all the barriers down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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