MPs voted for a second lockdown by 516 votes to 38 as Covid deaths more than doubled in a fortnight.
Lockdown measures from tomorrow will include forcing non-essential retail shops, gyms and hospitality venues to close. Schools and universities will stay open.
At least 20 Tory MPs were prepared to vote against the measures but the Prime Minister could rely on votes from the opposition.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer pledged support for the restrictions, having urged Boris Johnson to put the country on a circuit-breaker lockdown for weeks.
Coronavirus deaths have risen by 492 in the largest daily increase since May, but Boris Johnson has shown optimism in UK testing sites.
The PM said that he "sees light ahead" in the fight against the pandemic as 3,000 armed forces and scientists have stepped in to help mass testing.
Ben Wallace revealed top Ministry of Defence biomedical scientists will oversee troops from the 8 Engineer Brigade, the Royal Anglian Regiment and the King’s Royal Hussars as part of the first trial in testing a whole city.
And he hinted the Liverpool deployment was the first of many, saying: "As the latest testing technologies and developments in combating the virus come into play, Defence stands ready to support local communities, and the nation, to benefit from them as soon as possible."
Despite fatalities rising by 397, cases have continued to level off as 20,018 more people tested positive for the bug today - as the country faces a second lockdown from tomorrow.
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CARE HOMES TOLD VISITORS & RESIDENTS 'CAN MEET AT WINDOWS & OUTSIDE'
Care home visitors will be encouraged to meet their loved ones through a window or in an outside setting under new Government guidelines.
So-called “ad-hoc” visits will not be allowed as England moves into its second national lockdown on Thursday, although care homes “will be encouraged and supported to provide safe visiting opportunities”, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said.
The guidelines follow clamour from care organisations and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer to ensure visitors are allowed to see their loved ones amid concerns about the emotional damage to residents and their family members.
In its guidance, issued less than 12 hours before new lockdown measures are introduced, the DHSC cited a number of ways care homes could allow visitors, including having designated visitor pods with floor-to-ceiling screens and separate entrances.
Outdoor visits with one other person will be permitted, provided the area can be accessed by the loved one without going into the main building.
It also approved visits at windows, “where the visitor doesn't need to come inside the care home or where the visitor remains in their car, and the resident is socially distanced”.
YEOVIL CELEBRATES GUY FAWKES NIGHT EARLY TO AVOID LOCKDOWN
Locals in Yeovil, Somerset, were treated to an early fireworks display so it wouldn't have to be cancelled due to the coronavirus lockdown.
The fireworks night was brought forward to tonight from Saturday November 7, so the display could go ahead before the new Covid-19 lockdown comes in at midnight.
ASPIRIN COULD HELP COVID PATIENTS RECOVER
Brits suffering from Covid-19 in hospital will be given aspirin in a new trial to see if the cheap drug prevents lethal blood clotting on the lungs.
Some studies have shown that nearly 80 per cent of people who die of Covid-19 have thrombosis – or blood clotting – in the lungs, which prevents oxygen from moving through the body and can be fatal.
Scientists are hopeful that blood thinners, like aspirin, may help avoid the devastating clotting that can lead to death, The Telegraph reports.
BRAZIL REPORTS 24,000 NEW COVID CASES
Brazil reported 23,976 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, and 610 deaths from Covid-19, the health ministry said on Wednesday.
The South American country has now registered 5,590,025 cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 161,106, according to ministry data, in the world's most fatal outbreak outside the United States.
ITALY TO LOCKDOWN SIX REGIONS
Italy will lockdown a large part of the country, including its northern regions, in a bid to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced that the measures, the most drastic since the nationwide lockdown in March, will take effect on Friday.
Three of the regions spanned the country’s northwest and included Lombardy, which is the home of Italy’s financial capital Milan, Piedmont and Aosta Valley.
The southern regions were Calabria, Puglia and the island of Sicily.
The country will be essentially divided into three levels of infection, dubbed “red, orange and yellow.” Areas that fall into those respective categories will be subjected to automatic restrictions.
NINE TORY PEERS BACK 'FATAL MOTION'
Nine Conservative peers backed the “fatal motion” in an attempt to block the second lockdown for England, according to the division list.
They were: Viscount Astor, Lord Fairfax of Cameron, Lord Hamilton of Epsom, Lord Mancroft, Baroness Morrissey, Viscount Ridley, Lord Robathan, Viscount Trenchard and Lord Young of Graffham.
Seventeen independent crossbench peers also supported the motion, including former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Lord Woolf, former High Court judge Baroness Butler-Sloss and former head of the army Lord Dannatt.
Labour's Baroness Drake and three non-affiliated peers also backed the motion.
The bid to block the regulations was defeated, with 165 Conservative peers among those who opposed it.
CHILE GIVES GO-AHEAD TO ASTRAZENECA COVID VACCINE TRIAL
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said on Wednesday the country's health regulators had given the go-ahead to a clinical trial of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.
Pinera said the AstraZeneca trial would follow one by America's Johnson & Johnson that is already underway and another by China's Sinovac, whose first vaccine doses arrived in Chile on Wednesday.
He said Chile had been working “for months” to ensure sufficient and timely access to COVID vaccines, and hoped to start rolling them out to vulnerable populations “in the first few months of next year.”
“We all know that a safe, effective and readily-available vaccine to all those who need it will be a huge contribution to the fight against Coronavirus,” he said.
He said Chile had signed a purchase agreement with Pfizer Inc and Germany's BioNTech SE for 10 million doses of the vaccine they are jointly developing, and was working on similar agreements with AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and Sinovac.
Chile's government has previously said it had reserved 14.4 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine and incorporated a clause into its agreement for the Sinovac trial for the preferential purchase of 20 million doses.
DENMARK TO CULL MINKS AFTER COVID MUTATION SPREADS TO HUMANS
Denmark will cull its mink population of up to 17 million after a mutation of the coronavirus found in the animals spread to humans, the prime minister said on Wednesday.
Health authorities found virus strains in humans and in mink which showed decreased sensitivity against antibodies, potentially lowering the efficacy of future vaccines, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said.
“We have a great responsibility towards our own population, but with the mutation that has now been found, we have an even greater responsibility for the rest of the world as well,” Frederiksen told a news conference.
The findings, which have been shared with the World Health Organization and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, were based on laboratory tests by the State Serum Institute, the Danish authority dealing with infectious diseases.
The head of the WHO's emergencies programme, Mike Ryan, called on Friday for full-scale scientific investigations of the complex issue of humans – outside China – infecting mink which in turn transmitted the virus back to humans.
NHS WORKERS TAKING PAY DISPUTE TO SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT
A union will stage a demonstration outside the Scottish Parliament later on Thursday as part of a dispute over the pay deal for NHS workers.
Unison has invited Health Secretary Jeane Freeman and other MSPs to meet its members to discuss what working conditions have been like during the coronavirus pandemic.
The union's “pay up now” campaign is calling for the three-year NHS pay deal to be renegotiated in light of the extra costs incurred by healthcare workers.
Union officials say they are moving to a consultative ballot on industrial action after failing to see progress from the Scottish Government.
Ms Freeman has said several options are available, including reopening the final year of the current three-year deal.
Some 25 Unison members are due to take part in the socially distanced demonstration on Thursday.
LORDS CLEAR WAY FOR CORONA LOCKDOWN
Peers have voted against a bid to block the second national lockdown in England.
Tory former minister Lord Robathan's so-called fatal motion to the regulations was defeated by 30 votes to 376, majority 346.
From Thursday, pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops will again be forced to close their doors after the Commons voted by 516 to 38 – a Government majority of 478 – for the new restrictions.
However, in a bigger than expected rebellion, 32 Tory MPs defied the whips to vote against the measures, with two more acting as tellers for the noes.
NHS WON'T 'COLLAPSE' UNDER COVID STRAIN
A health expert has said she was confident the NHS wouldn't “collapse” in the fight against Covid-19 but did warn non-coronavirus treatments were at risk.
Dr Alison Pittard, dean of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, said it was important that public support for the health service was not undermined by the spread of misinformation.
“If we don't have the support of the public in the next wave and we hear rumours and quite frankly lies that are being told in the media, that isn't going to help anybody,” she said.
CYPRUS UNDER NIGHT TIME CURFEW
Cyprus has announced it is to bring in a night time curfew starting on Thursday.
The restrictions will cover the hours between 11pm to 5am and last until November 30.
On Wednesday, the Mediterranean island reported 166 new cases, bringing the total number of infections to 5,100. There have been 26 deaths.
FRANCE REPORTS 40,500 NEW COVID CASES
France has reported 40,558 new confirmed coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours.
On Tuesday it recorded 36,330 new cases.
ITALY PLACES LOMBARDY AND PIEDMONT IN COVID 'RED ZONE' RESTRICTIONS
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has placed the Lombardy and Piedmont regions under tough Covid “Red Zone” restrictions and infections rise.
The red zone restrictions are the harshest the country has after it introduced yellow, orange and red levels.
Yesterday Puglia and Sicily were put under orange measures.
In the red zone areas people are urged to stay indoors as much as possible with all public spaces forced to close.
COPS HAND OUT FINES OF £10K AFTER TWO COVID RULE BREACHES IN TWO DAYS
A man and a woman have been handed fines of £10,000 each after police in Greater Manchester shut down two separate parties in two days for breaching coronavirus regulations.
Local authorities said the behaviour showed “a level of reckless selfishness that is almost beyond comprehension,” and praised the actions of officers.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) were called to a warehouse in Salford on Tuesday evening and dispersed a group of about 200 people who were attending a wedding reception.
GMP said that screens had also been put up in an attempt to prevent the event – which featured catering, musicians, an MC and sound equipment – from being seen from outside.
Following the dispersal of guests, a man, believed to be the organiser, was issued with a £10,000 fine for the breach of coronavirus legislation.
On Monday night officers were called to an address in Bolton following reports of a house party and dispersed a crowd of about 40 people.
A woman, believed to be the party's organiser, was also issued with a £10,000 fine.
LONDON IN GRIDLOCK
Parts of central London were in gridlock this evening as people fled the capital ahead of the second coronavirus lockdown.
Traffic along Regent Street came to a virtual stand-still with the lockdown due to start at midnight.
Pubs, along with restaurants, hairdressers and shops selling non-essential items will have to close Thursday until at least December 2.
LORD LILLEY SAYS LOCKDOWN BASED ON 'DODGY DATA'
Conservative peer Lord Lilley said the restrictions are “based on dubious law and dodgy data”.
Former minister Lord Lilley, who had also tabled a regret motion against the Government's new restrictions, told peers: “These measures involve grave restrictions on the economy and on our liberties.
“They may be necessary, but we should only take them on the basis of sound law and solid data. Unfortunately they are based on dubious law and dodgy data.
“I may not be a lawyer but I did the Institute of Statisticians exams half a century ago and since then have been allergic ever since to statistical jiggery-pokery.”
Lord Lilley continued: “In short, instead of evidence-based policy we've seen policy-based evidence.
“I am not claiming that a second wave is not serious – it is, and I am not suggesting that no action is required – it may be, but using a weak legal base and playing fast and loose with the statistics can only undermine trust in what is proposed in these regulations.”
FIVE MEN FINED £10K EACH OVER HOUSE PARTY
Five young men who together hosted a party for almost 80 people at a house, face a total fine of £50,000 after Covid-19 police swooped and handed each of them a £10,000 fixed penalty fine.
Neighbours alerted police to the noisy party which had even spilled out into the back garden of a house in Canterbury, Kent, last Saturday evening.
Officers said that there were between 60 and 80 people in the rooms of the house, all clearly breaching the coronavirus regulations.
BIDEN TO ISSUE NATIONAL COVID STRATEGY IF HE BECOMES PRESIDENT
Presidential hopeful Joe Biden has said he will issue a national strategy to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, if he gets into the White House.
The policy is expected to include a mask mandate and clearer guidance on testing and school reopenings.
He has also promised to work more productively with health officials.
But a Republican Senate could reject Cabinet appointees they deem too liberal, forcing Biden to opt for consensus picks that might frustrate those on his party's left wing.
UK TO GET JUST 4M OXFORD UNI VACCINE THIS YEAR
Britain will receive just 4million doses of the shot this year, the head of the UK's vaccine procurement programme said on Wednesday.
In May, Britain agreed a deal for 100 million doses of the vaccine, developed by Oxford University and licensed to AstraZeneca , with 30 million doses estimated for delivery by September 2020.
UK Vaccine Taskforce Chair Kate Bingham said that the target of 30 million doses of the vaccine by September had not been achieved, and she estimated that Britain would get 4 million doses by the end of the year instead.
“The predictions that were made in good faith at the time were assuming that absolutely everything would work and that there were no hiccups at all,” she told lawmakers.
She said the scale-up in manufacturing usually took years to do but instead was moving at unprecedented speed, adding that the full 100 million doses would be delivered next year.
IRELAND RECORDS EIGHT COVID DEATHS
Eight further deaths of people with Covid-19 and 444 new cases of the virus have been reported by the National Public Health Emergency Team.
There has been a total of 1,930 Covid-19 related deaths and 63,483 cases in Ireland.
FORMER PM THERESA MAY ABSTAINED IN LOCKDOWN VOTE
She had launched an attack on the Government for using out of date data to justify the tough new measures.
34 TORY MPS VOTE AGAINST LOCKDOWN
It is more than the 20 MPs expected to reject the measures earlier today.
They include former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, former cabinet ministers Esther McVey and Tim Loughton, Peter Bone and Steve Baker.
They were supported by four DUP MPs.
Lockdown will be imposed from midnight tonight after the bill passed by 516 votes to 38.
FARAGE: LOCKDOWN OPPOSITION NEEDED
Nigel Farage said an opposition to lockdown is needed.
It comes as MPs voted by 516 to 38 to impose new lockdown restrictions from midnight.
Brexit Party leader Mr Farage tweeted: “An opposition voice to lockdown is needed.”
He is set to relaunch his Brexit Party as the Reform Party, dedicated to fighting lockdown.
PM SEES TORY REVOLT FIRST HAND
Boris Johnson saw the boiling Tory revolt in the Commons today ahead of the lockdown vote.
Former PM Theresa May led a furious charge arguing the data and graphs used to impose the lockdown were out of date.
Some projections used could even be up to four times wrong.
The lockdown passed by 516 votes to 38 as Keir Starmer rallied his Labour troops to back the Government.
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