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Matt Hancock, the health secretary, is responding to the urgent question on coronavirus now.
He starts by saying cases are going up around the world. France and Spain are recording more than 10,000 cases daily. And the UK had 2,600 new cases daily.
Nicola Sturgeon revealed that she had a “constructive” conference call with Matt Hancock and Dido Harding yesterday evening, after yesterday raising urgent concerns with the UK government about significant delays getting Covid test results from the UK’s rapid testing centre.
At her daily briefing, the Scottish first minister said that she had “sought assurances that Scotland will continue to get fair access to UK wide testing capacity” and that her government would continue to monitor the situation.
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