UK coronavirus live: Matt Hancock warns deaths have doubled in 12 days; 18,804 new cases recorded

Health secretary address parliament on response to pandemic; two-week firebreak' in Wales aimed at avoiding open-ended lockdown

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• Wales to go into national firebreak' lockdown
  
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• Operation Moonshot: pilot of rapid tests under way in NHS hospitals
• A third more deaths occurring at home in England than pre-Covid

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In the Commons Jeremy Hunt, the chair of the health committee, suggests that local leaders should be given responsibility for bringing down the R number locally. But, if they don't, central government should take back control", he says.

Hancock says the government is working with local councils.

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Hancock ended his statement by confirming what Boris Johnson said at his press conference on Friday about how rapid-result Covid tests were being distributed and piloted around the country in coming weeks, particularly in tier 3 areas.