UK coronavirus live: daily cases jump to 1,522; Switzerland, Czech Republic and Jamaica added to quarantine list - as it happened
UK's daily cases tally up from 1,048 on Wednesday; transport secretary confirms three countries added to quarantine list; government falls short of contact-tracing target for ninth week in row. This live blog is now closed - please follow the global live blog for latest updates
- UK sees highest number of new Covid-19 cases since mid-June
- UK removes Switzerland, Jamaica and Czech Republic from corridor list
- Data on care home deaths kept secret to protect commercial interests'
6.51pm BST
Here's a round-up of the key events of the day.
The government announced the biggest single-day increase in coronavirus cases since 12 June with 1,522 new cases, taking the total to more than 330,000. There have now been 41,477 deaths.
6.20pm BST
Even as the government seeks to take a hard line on refugees crossing the Channel and the Home Office tweets that activist lawyers" are disrupting the removal of migrants with no right to be in the UK (before later agreeing not to use the phrase), new figures reveal that the number of asylum applications has almost halved as a result of coronavirus.
A total of 8,455 claims to be granted asylum in the UK were submitted in the first three months of the year, compared with 4,850 from April to June, figures from the Home Office showed.
Related: Asylum applications to UK nearly halved between April and June
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