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Government claims numbers testing positive for Covid-19 are 'pretty much stable and flat'
Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser Dame Angela McLean

NUMBERS of people testing positive for Covid-19 have stabilised, the government said today.

Dame Angela McLean, the deputy chief scientific adviser, said at the daily Downing Street press conference that the numbers of people testing positive for coronavirus were “pretty much stable and flat.”

She said that the numbers being treated in hospital for the disease were also stable across the country, having fallen in London for the past seven days.

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