➡️ Olympic champion's coronavirus comeback ➡️ More tests for 'pinged' workers ➡️ Have we passed the peak? Here's our morning coronavirus update
Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.Winning Olympic gold is a special achievement at any time. But Tom Dean's victory in the 200m freestyle in Tokyo is all the more remarkable, given. He lost six weeks of training and at one point could not "walk up the stairs without coughing and wheezing".
With hundreds of thousands of people a week receiving alerts, the government says 1,200 extra rapid testing sites will be established for sectors including prisons, waste management and the armed forces. That's on top of 800 sites being set up for workers such as police, firefighters and supermarket depot staff.The number of confirmed daily cases has fallen for six days in a row - now standing at 24,950. And unlike the previous two waves of Covid, it is happening without a national lockdown.
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