Latest updates: Neil Ferguson’s claim comes as number of people in hospitals in England with virus falls; Australia suffers worst Covid day this year
Russia reported 22,320 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, including 2,235 in Moscow, taking the official national tally since the pandemic began to 6,424,884.
The government’s coronavirus taskforce said 793 people had died of coronavirus-linked causes in the past 24 hours, pushing the national death toll to 164,094.
The Philippines’ health ministry recorded 11,021 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, the highest single-day case increase in almost four months, and 162 additional deaths.
In a bulletin, the ministry said total confirmed infections in the Philippines had increased to almost 1.65 million, while deaths had reached 28,835.
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