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3.29pm GMT
Public Health England has published its latest weekly Covid surveillance report (pdf). It cover the period to the end of last week, and it says case rates are falling in all regions, but remain highest in London.
Our weekly #COVID19 surveillance report also shows that case rates have fallen in all regions and continue to be highest in #London.
Read the full report: https://t.co/8dYt9zEVk9 pic.twitter.com/sRD62DK1bD
Hospital admissions for #COVID19 remain highest in those aged 85 and over.
Find out more in our weekly surveillance report: https://t.co/8dYt9zEVk9 pic.twitter.com/yZevqrNucA
Hospital admission rates for #COVID19 are still rising in several regions and are now highest in the West Midlands.
See the data in our weekly surveillance report: https://t.co/8dYt9zEVk9 pic.twitter.com/c4x8zvmnn7
3.20pm GMT
On his visit to Didsbury, south Manchester, to inspect damage caused by the flooding, Boris Johnson says he was passionate believer in the value of planting trees as a means of reducing the risk from flooding. He said:
One idea that everybody in the Environment Agency talks about, and I believe in absolutely passionately, is planting trees on the higher ground to help absorb some of that rainfall, to help mitigate the effects of flooding.
This government has a very ambitious tree-planting programme, but, in my view, we’re not going fast enough.
