Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - The Coronavirus Briefing Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailThe UK coronavirus death toll has risen by 149 as the number of daily cases have gone back above 1,000. There has been a further 1,118 new cases of coronavirus reported in the last 24 hours. Downing Street has refused to say if sweeping changes to England's lockdown could push the dreaded 'R' number above one. The reproduction number - 'R' for short - is the average number of people who get infected by each person with coronavirus. It comes after a leaked Public Health England briefing suggested the R number could already be above one in parts of England.

Source: Daily Mirror June 25, 2020 14:06 UTC