UK coronavirus live: death toll in Scotland rises by 81; lockdown likely to be extended
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Victoria Park will reopen on Saturday from 8am subject to a number of new control measures, Tower Hamlets council has announced.
Victoria Park is reopening on Saturday 11 April from 8am
Read more about the new control measures we’re introducing and find some answers to common questions here https://t.co/79dsXAozt1@VickyParkLondon pic.twitter.com/uvUQvcYtGQ
Nicola Sturgeon has announced that 81 further Covid-19 deaths have been reported overnight in Scotland, taking the total number of deaths involving laboratory-confirmed victims of the virus to 447.
Sturgeon was speaking in the first ever online version of first minister’s questions, broadcast by the Scottish parliament where all five Holyrood party leaders were questioning her from remote locations around the country, chaired by the parliament’s presiding officer, Ken Macintosh.
The first virtual #FMQs are underway pic.twitter.com/UD0aUrrWdQ
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