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Bristol Post
National
Sophie Grubb

Bristol confirms new case of coronavirus as other areas record none

Bristol has confirmed another case of coronavirus in the latest 24-hour period.

The number of cases recorded in the city is now at 722, but this only includes people who have been tested and whose results have come back as positive.

Three of Bristol's neighbours, however, recorded no increase at all in today's (June 19) daily figures.

There have been no additional cases confirmed in North Somerset, nor Bath and North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.

The cases in these areas stand at 485, 237 and 406 respectively.

Nationally, there have been 1,346 more cases confirmed in today's figures, and another 173 deaths.

This brings the UK total to 301,815, while 42,461 people who tested positive have now died.

Provisional figures suggest that neither of Bristol's NHS hospital trusts recorded any coronavirus deaths yesterday (June 18).

Speaking in the daily briefing from Downing Street today (Friday), education secretary Gavin Williamson said the R rate remains unchanged from last week, at between 0.7 and 0.9.

This is the rate of transmission and predicts how many people each person with coronavirus will go on to infect.

Mr Williamson also spoke about schools in his speech, and revealed that the government is working on guidance for a "full return in September".

He said he recognises that schools will need help to catch children up, and that the pandemic has "dealt an unprecedented shock to our education system".

Earlier today, the UK's coronavirus alert level was downgraded from four to three, which health secretary Matt Hancock said was a "big moment" for the country.

It means the Covid-19 epidemic is in "general circulation", but transmission is no longer "high or rising exponentially".

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