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Health Secretary Matt Hancock leads today's coronavirus briefing from Downing Street, joined by England's deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van Tam, and NHS England's medical director for primary care, Dr Nikki Kanani.
Here’s what we learnt:

There are 29,326 people in hospital with coronavirus – this is more than during the April and November peaks
It’s two months to the day since Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to get a licensed Covid vaccine and since then, more than 12.2m people have had their first jab – that’s almost 1 in 4 adults in the UK
Over-70s who have not yet got an appointment to be vaccinated should contact the national booking service

Derby company SureScreen will make 20 million rapid tests to give asymptomatic people a result in 30 minutes
The UK Government has partnered with German company Curevac to develop vaccines against new COVID-19 variants
Prof Jonathan Van Tam says there is no reason to think the South African variant will catch up or overtake the dominant Kent variant
That strain is the immediate threat in the UK and the vaccinations protect against that so everyone should get the jab, he says
It's likely variants would be tackled with a booster vaccination in the Autumn, he says
Matt Hancock would not be drawn on whether people could mix in groups of six outdoors next month.
He says: "We are not going to get into this at all, it's too early to speculate".
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