UK coronavirus: all children in England will be back at school in September, says Gavin Williamson – as it happened
by Lucy Campbell (now) and Ben Quinn (earlier) from Science | The Guardian on (#54S0Y)
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The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 among prisons in England and Wales continues to rise, Ministry of Justice figures shows.
As at 5pm on Thursday, 505 prisoners had tested positive for the coronavirus across 81 prisons, a rise of 0.4% in 24 hours, while there were 984 infected staff across 105 prisons, a rise of 0.4% in the same period.
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