Matt Hancock said almost 10,000 people a day are contracting coronavirus - admitting the figure is "too high". The Health Secretary said almost 10,000 people a day are contracting coronavirus - although still fewer than the "100,000 per day" estimated during the spring peak.
He called on people to download the newly-released NHS tracing app to "make the country a safer place". Speaking to Sky News, he said: "The massive testing capability we've got helps to find where the virus is so, if you think about it, yesterday we had a figure that there is over 6,000 people who have tested positive in the previous 24 hours. "And that is comparable to the highest levels in the peak in terms of the number of people who were tested positive but back