Covid-19 update: Is London now virtually Covid free?

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• Shops reopen in England today, with long queues outside stores like Primark (see photo below). The government is considering lowering VAT to lure back nervous shoppers, according to the Times.
• More than one million people have not been able to receive any support from government coronavirus schemes, according to the Treasury Select Committee.
• Antibody tests used by the government could miss up to 25 per cent of coronavirus cases.
• Controls to stop the spread of Covid-19 in hospitals were relaxed at the height of the crisis, according to a report in the Telegraph.
• More than 3,000 transport workers and police officers have been deployed at railway stations from today to enforce the wearing of face masks while travelling.
• The chair of the Metropolitan Police Federation has said protests should be banned during the pandemic.
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