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UK coronavirus live: Scotland to stick with ‘stay home’ advice as Johnson due to announce alert system

UK coronavirus live: Scotland to stick with ‘stay home’ advice as Johnson due to announce alert system

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Health professionals have issued a new legal challenge demanding an urgent inquiry into the government’s failure to provide PPE for frontline workers.

A pre-action letter sent by the Doctor’s Association UK (DA) and the Good Law Project (GLP), who responsible for bringing the challenge, provides a list of “recurrent and systemic” failures in PPE supplies.

Downing Street are also weighing in to try to explain the meaning of the new “stay alert” slogan.

A No 10 spokesman said the public can stay alert by “staying at home as much as possible”, “limiting contact with other people” and keeping two metres apart where possible.

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