UK confirms 980 further virus deaths

UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Friday confirmed a record daily rise of deaths from COVID-19, at 980, bringing the UK's total death toll to 8,958.

Chief Nursing Officer Ruth May said that Exeter and Sunderland were to receive new temporary Nightingale hospitals to treat coronavirus patients, alongside London, Birmingham, Manchester, Harrogate and Bristol.

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