COVID news live: UK daily cases top 40,000 again - as England's R number falls to between 0.8 to 1
Latest on coronavirus as the UK reports 40,375 daily cases and 145 deaths; England's R number is estimated at between 0.8 and 1.0 - down from between 0.9 and 1.1 last week; Netherlands "to impose a partial lockdown" from this weekend despite COVID vaccine rollout.