UK announces preliminary daily Covid-19 death toll of 209 - taking official number of victims to 37,257
- Department of Health officials have yet to publish the final Covid-19 figures, which are often much higher
- The preliminary death tally is calculated by adding up individual counts given by each of the home nations
- NHS England today recorded 183 Covid-19 fatalities in hospitals - but it does not provide care home figures
- Scotland registered 13 deaths, Wales 11 and Northern Ireland two from all locations, including care homes
- Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19
Health chiefs across Britain today announced 209 more Covid-19 deaths, taking the official number of victims to 37,257.
Department of Health bosses have yet to publish the final daily figures, which includes deaths across all settings among Britons who tested positive for the coronavirus.
The preliminary tally - which is often much lower than the number given by officials - is calculated by adding up all of the individual counts given by each of the home nations.
NHS England today recorded 183 Covid-19 fatalities in hospitals, while Scotland registered 13 deaths, Wales 11 and Northern Ireland two from all locations, including care homes.
Officials yesterday announced only 134 more coronavirus deaths, a figure much lower than usual because of a recording delay over the weekend and bank holiday.
In other developments to the coronavirus crisis in Britain today:
- Two households could be allowed to meet up from next week under Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plans for easing lockdown, it was revealed;
- McDonald's announced nearly 1,000 more restaurants will reopen for drive-thrus or deliveries from next week - with a £25 cap on orders;
- British health officials have told companies offering Covid-19 antibody tests to stop processing finger-prick blood samples from patients in the UK;
- Forty per cent of staff at a hospital in Weston-super-Mare closed to new admissions because of a spike in Covid-19 patients have symptoms of the infection.
Two households could be allowed to meet up from next week, under Boris Johnson's plans for easing lockdown - but ministers are said to have parked proposals for people to be able to mix freely in social 'bubbles'.
Current lockdown rules dictate that you can meet up with one other person from outside your household outdoors as long as you remain two metres apart.
The new plan would allow two households to link up although it is unclear whether everyone in each household would be allowed to attend. This would potentially allow people to see their parents at the same time, for example, something which the existing restrictions prohibit.
It could see people given the green light to invite their partnered household to visit them in a private garden.
However, when plan was discussed at a meeting of the Cabinet on Monday this week, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab reportedly expressed concerns that the two households plan could become seen as a 'barbecue clause'.
Social bubbles of up to ten people was first laid out in the government’s 50-page roadmap out of lockdown, published on 11 May, and gave hope that people could once again see extended family or friends all together.
The 'bubble' plan was originally due to be included in the first wave of lockdown easing announced by the PM but it was held back after scientists said the potential impact needed to be better understood.
New expert modelling produced by the Government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) is believed to have shown that allowing households to merge in a bubble could lead to a fresh outbreak and is not possible at the moment.
Ministers are now pursuing a more targeted approach which they hope will help people who have been left isolated during the crisis.
The scheme, which could be rolled out from June 1 at the start of Mr Johnson's second phase of easing, could force households to nominate the friends or family they want to be allowed to see.
Ministers are believed to be considering plans which would allow two households to meet up outdoors. Pictured are people enjoying the sunshine in east London on May 26
A potential requirement for households to nominate the other household they want to be linked to could cause major headaches because it could force parents to choose which of their adult children they meet up with.
It is also unclear how such a scheme could work in house share situations where people may have different groups of friends.
Nicola Sturgeon has already said that in Scotland two households are set to be allowed to mix in 'small numbers, including in gardens' with social distancing in force.
There is likely to be new guidance issued setting out how guests should walk through the house if that is the only route to the garden, too.
Coronavirus is believed to spread more easily indoors than outdoors and there are concerns that the garden provision could be abused, with people ending up moving inside during a gathering.
The PM's spokesman said 'work is ongoing' on plans to increase socialising, and that ministers recognised that 'sacrifices' were being made.
'We are of course aware that not everybody has access to a garden,' they added.
Meanwhile experts have warned that the Government's contact tracing operation must be in place before any further easing of lockdown measures takes place.
It is now thought the initiative will go live tomorrow, allowing the PM to go ahead with lockdown changes like the phased reopening of primary schools and non-essential shops.
The contact tracing scheme will see people who have come into contact with someone for more than 15 minutes who has subsequently tested positive for the disease being tracked down and told to self-isolate for 14 days.
It is hoped this would then stop a second wave by breaking the chain of transmission early.
Ministers have already stressed that the contact tracing programme will only work if people told to isolate actually do it.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the daily Downing Street press conference last night that people have a 'civic duty' to remove themselves from society if they are asked to do so by the programme.
'People are doing this, they are not doing it for me, people are doing this for their loved ones,' he said.
'If you are phoned up and asked to self-isolate even if you are perfectly healthy because you have been in close contact with somebody who has tested positive, it is your civic duty to then self-isolate for yourself, for your community, for your family.
'We all need to come together to do this and that will then in turn allow us to lift some of the measures that currently are blanket measures across the whole of society and have to be blanket measures until we have the NHS test and trace system up and running and in place.'
There are fears the South West is already experiencing some kind of second wave after an outbreak of coronavirus cases has forced a hospital in Weston-super-Mare to shut.
Weston General Hospital has been closed to all new admissions, including A&E patients, since Monday morning because of a spike in Covid-19 patients.
It has been claimed a memo leaked to local newspaper Somerset Live revealed 40 per cent of workers at the hospital, which has around 2,000 staff, have come down with the infection. Some of them did not show symptoms.
The trust that runs the hospital has yet to deny the claims after being contacted by MailOnline, and admitted last night there is an 'emerging picture' of staff with no symptoms testing positive for Covid-19.
Silent carriers of the virus, who don't show symptoms, can unknowingly spread the virus to other people, with scientists previously finding up to half of cases are caused by asymptomatic spread.
The message reportedly sent to NHS staff in the South West region on Sunday, May 24, also said more than 64 patients have tested positive in the hospital, up from 30 patients at the beginning of last week.
The cause of the outbreak has been shrouded in mystery, with locals blaming tourists crowding the beaches over the past two weeks.
Weston General Hospital, in Weston-super-Mare, that shut to new patients has an 'emerging picture' of staff with no symptoms testing positive for Covid-19
Weston-super-Mare is in Somerset, the South West. The region has been the least affected by the coronavirus so far
Angry residents say 'it's not rocket science' - there has been an outbreak in Weston-super-Mare because crowds are unable to stay socially distanced at the beach. Pictured: The promenade on May 25
Trust medical director Dr William Oldfield said they are in the process of testing all staff in clinical areas at the hospital who may have had some patient contact.
'There is an emerging picture of asymptomatic staff testing positive for the virus,' he said.
Dr Oldfield said members of staff who have tested positive have self-isolated in line with national guidance and there are 'appropriate levels' of personal protective equipment (PPE) available.
Local MP, John Penrose, said the hospital was having a 'deep clean' after speaking to health chiefs.
He told MailOnline: 'As I hope everyone would expect, I've been meeting local health chiefs to get to the bottom of this. They say the hospital isn't full and there are enough spare beds, but they're worried about cross-infecting non-covid patients, so they want to stop new arrivals until they've deep-cleaned it and checked all the staff too.
'They're running tests which they hope will reveal the truth of it, so we should know more once the results come in.'
Mr Penrose said there was 'no evidence to show if the outbreak is connected to visitors on the seafront', after day-trippers were blamed for a surge in cases.
But people who live in Weston-super-Mare said it was clear tourists who flocked to beaches after the lockdown was loosened were contributing to spread of the virus.
The beaches in Somerset and elsewhere have been packed with tourists since Prime Minister Boris Johnson allowed people in England to travel as far as they like to enjoy unlimited exercise and sunbathing.
The South West region has so far experienced the fewest cases and deaths from COVID-19 in England.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston trust (UHBW), which has confirmed 118 coronavirus deaths across its two hospitals. But it is unclear how many of those happened at Weston General and its other hospital, Bristol Royal Infirmary (BRI).
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