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Watch LIVE: the government's coronavirus press conference
| Updated: 01 Sept 2020
Watch the government's coronavirus daily public briefing - the feed will appear here once it begins.
The UK's coronavirus death toll rose to 14,576 on Friday.
At yesterday's press conference, Alok Sharma announced the creation of a new coronavirus vaccine task force.
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