UK coronavirus live: Sweden and Germany put on quarantine list; Johnson raises Christmas hopes
Latest updates: people travelling from Germany and Sweden must self-isolate; Johnson thinks people will have as normal a Christmas as possible'
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6.20pm GMT
I have every confidence, if we follow this package of measures [ie, the lockdown] in the way that we can, as we have done before, I have no doubt that people will be able to have as normal a Christmas as possible and that we will be able to get things open before Christmas as well.
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6.04pm GMT
Anthony Costello, a paediatrician, former World Health Organisation director and member of Independent Sage (a group of scientists critical of the government's approach), has criticised Boris Johnson's responses to questions about test and trace. (See 5.45pm.)
It is unacceptable for the PM not only to suggest test, trace and isolate is improving (it isn't) but also to avoid answering a question about funding (12 billion to private companies) being returned to the more effective public health teams. pic.twitter.com/iMYmeyvsCD
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