Virus deaths exceed 30,000 as tests target missed again

Even using the government’s own official figures, more than 30,000 people in the UK have now died with coronavirus – while yet again the number of tests carried out has dropped – yesterday it was just under 70,000, well below the government’s target. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)

At Prime Minister’s questions – facing Sir Keir Starmer for the first time as Labour leader – Boris Johnson said he “bitterly regretted” the epidemic in care homes – insisting a “huge effort” was being made to get them the right PPE. Our political editor Gary Gibbon reports.
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