Boris Johnson’s special adviser will leave No 10 by end of year, Whitehall sources confirm
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Joe Anderson, the mayor of Liverpool, told BBC Breakfast this morning that around 90,000 people have been tested for coronavirus in the city’s mass testing regime introduced last Friday – with 430 testing positive and going into isolation. He said:
Four hundred and thirty people are not spreading the virus, it means that we can break the chain of infection.
Since we’ve been into tier 3 we had 680 people per 100,000 that were positive in the city, we’ve now got that down … to around 300 per 100,000, so that’s a positive move and a positive step for us.
From Sky’s Joe Pike
Some in No 10 will miss Dominic Cummings.
This is the PM’s Political Secretary Ben Gascoigne. Seems to nod when I ask if he’s sad to see Mr Cummings go. pic.twitter.com/S8ZLFz6Kvk
