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The Department for Health and Social Care has recorded a further 154 coronavirus deaths in the UK, taking the total to 43,081. The full figures are here.

These figures only cover the deaths of people who have tested positive for coronavirus and died. The UK figure for all deaths caused by coronavirus is more than 54,000.

As of 9am 24 June, there have been 8,542,186 tests, with 232,086 tests on 23 June.

306,862 people have tested positive.

As of 5pm on 23 June, of those tested positive for coronavirus, across all settings, 43,081 have sadly died.

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And in another article for the Guardian Stephen Reicher, a psychology professor and member of SPI-B, the Sage subcommittee advising the government on behavioural issues, has strongly criticised Boris Johnson's decision to abandon the two-metre rule. Here's an extract.

Whatever the prime minister might say, his policies lead to banner headlines such as Freedom Pass and Independence Day. But we don't even need to read the papers. Every time we pass an open bar, it will scream to us that the danger is all but gone and we are back to normal". After all, who in their right mind would reopen the pubs and abandon distancing in the midst of a deadly pandemic?

But perhaps that is overstating things a little. After all, the government isn't abandoning all distancing measures. It is saying 1 metre is acceptable when 2 metres is impossible, as long as other measures are applied. True. However, research in the field of proxemics - the study of space and social interaction - shows that, in the UK, 1 metre is roughly the distance we ordinarily maintain with others. So reducing it to 1 metre is akin to removing any restrictions from distancing, and hence functions as another signal of back to normal.

Related: The way Boris Johnson has eased lockdown sends all the wrong messages | Stephen Reicher