as the UK recorded its highest daily death toll from the disease since mid-May. Health secretary Matt Hancock named 67 local council areas which will be sent enough rapid-turnaround kits for 10 per cent of their population each week. Some 23,170
Mass coronavirus testing of the kind trialled in Liverpool is being rolled out to cities including Birmingham, Manchester and London,
people were tested in the first three days after the opening of six centres in Liverpool on Friday as part of Operation Moonshot. The UK’s death toll increased by 532 over the latest 24-hour period, with the number of new coronavirus cases rising by 20,412.