Coronavirus news live - latest UK updates: Coronavirus briefing: PM says he does not want second UK lockdown 'if at all possible'

Rapid tests to be used for NHS and care home staff, students and areas with local outbreaks

"In time we want to use tests to keep open more parts of the economy that have sadly been closed. It will take time to get this right before many operations can buy and operate these tests themselves," Mr Johnson said.Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said talks with local leaders on tougher restrictions were"tough discussions, difficult decisions".

He will be joined by chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance and Dr Susan Hopkins, medical advisor to COVID-19 response.Watch: New restrictions in London are 'too little too late', says council leaderNorthern Ireland 'could face two more lockdowns over winter' "We could have turned this deal down, but more businesses would have suffered as a result of it and we would have been put into Tier 3 soon anyway."

She added that"at a strategic level", she plans to align the system as closely as possible with the other UK nations.What do people in Manchester think of the impending Tier 3 restrictions? One man says it will be the city's"death warrant".14:51A further 82 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospital in England, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths in hospitals to 30,825.

According to their analysis, age segmentation would still lead to"very many deaths" in those over 45.Local leaders should decide whether gyms close or not, says No 10 "You have soft play and car boot sales which are open in Merseyside but will be closed in Lancashire, whereas for gyms the opposite is the case."

"As the Chancellor set out earlier this week, local authorities placed into different tiers will receive extra financial support on a per capita basis to support their local areas and local public health teams with the response, whether that is more enforcement, compliance or contact tracing. Government scientists say it is"almost certain that the epidemic continues to grow exponentially across the country", and that they are"confident that the transmission is not slowing".

Like the deal to allow Lancashire to keep gyms open, but Liverpool to shut all theirs, despite both being in tier 3. What a complete nonsense, this is where it all starts falling apart

and now Westminister cant do a deal Manchester, what a total and utter farce this Government is.

BethRigby TV negotiation, with AndyBurnhamGM very odd. Shame on Johnson. PM goes on TV to threaten and negotiate. Sickening.

BorisJohnson can you please intervene and get Cummings to ‘cough’ up and pay his outstanding council tax.

BethRigby Come on Manchester,Liverpool,Newcastle, tell him to piss off.

Stump up the money then dumb dumb. No wonder you can’t come to an agreement with he EU. Andy Burnham is giving the entire government the run around. Morons...

BethRigby He's desperate to shift blame for his inaction onto the Northern councils. He should have implemented a proper circuit breaker, with a full financial package in order to fix failing Serco test & trace. Instead he has many more deaths on his hands.

Well done Manchester. It all starts with a single, small word, 'No'. Stand together and stay strong. These charlatans are playing games with all our businesses, lives and livelihoods.

You are the Prime Minister, you're supposed to be in charge! BorisHasFailedUK

You’ve lost the plot let’s take Sweden’s stance there getting it right

BorisJohnson World beating.

BorisJohnson I thought we already had world beating testing? Guess not.....

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BethRigby Government needs to do the decent thing and cough up the money to support it. It's like slow death by a thousand rules.

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Surprised he hasn’t got an oven ready deal 🙄

Wow. Johnson might have to accept some responsibility?!

BorisJohnson Who Wants Independence From England NOW?

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