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Hello and welcome to today’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic with me, Helen Sullivan.
People should ignore Monday’s easing of lockdown in parts of the UK and avoid socialising indoors in pubs and restaurants to prevent the new Covid-19 variant first detected in India sparking a third wave of the disease, health experts say.
