Latest updates: health secretary says it is necessary to apply tier 3 measures across much wider area; IT anomaly misses 11,000 positive cases in Wales
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Hancock says that it will be necessary to apply tier 3 areas across “a much wider area of the east and south-east of England”.
He says these areas are going into tier 3:
Hancock starts by saying that there were 25,000 cases yesterday, and that there are 18,000 patients in hospital in the UK.
Cases are rising across the world, he says.