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Evening Standard
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Patrick Grafton-Green, Luke O'Reilly

UK coronavirus LIVE: Death toll passes 20,500 as Boris Johnson returns to Downing Street

Boris Johnson thanks the NHS as he is discharged from hospital (Picture: Downing Street)

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has returned to Downing Street after recovering from Covid-19.

He will resume work tomorrow and will chair the morning meeting of the Government’s coronavirus “war cabinet”.

It came as Environment Secretary George Eustice revealed the death toll in the UK hospitals had increased to 20,732 at today's Downing Street briefing, a jump of 413 deaths.

Meanwhile the Government reportedly ordered 50 million tests developed by scientists at the University of Oxford, which are said to show if a person has had coronavirus.

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