They remain at around 1,000 new confirmed cases a day as newly released Sage papers suggest ministers may agree this is an “acceptable incidence” level. However this was contradicted by separate figures published by the Government that cases were still falling at between 2% and 4% a day. It recommended: “Decreasing daily incidence of symptomatic cases in all regions across the UK until the target acceptable incidence is reached, then incidence kept below that target. It comes after latest daily deaths of people after testing positive were at 149 on Thursday. Prof Christina Pagel, of University College London, said: “New daily infections have stopped their downward trend and have been level for the last few weeks.

Source: Daily Mirror June 26, 2020 15:28 UTC