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Covid news - live updates: Coronavirus cases rising in Spain, France and Greece as Boris Johnson accused of ‘actively ignoring’ bereaved families

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Lockdown restrictions have been reimposed across the Aberdeen area after 54 new cases emerged in a coronavirus cluster.

First minister Nicola Sturgeon said that 191 contacts have been traced in relation to the cluster. She said that the rise in cases has contributed to a greater fear there was a “significant outbreak” in the city.

A Home Affairs Committee has meanwhile concluded that the “inexplicable” failure to quarantine travellers to the UK fuelled the Covid-19 pandemic and led to unnecessary infections and deaths.

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