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The Department of Health is releasing updated figures of those confirmed to have COVID-19 each day.

Here's what you need to do to protect yourself and others

Wash your hands more often than usual, for 20 seconds each time with soap and water, or use hand sanitiser.

Make sure to do this when you:
🏠 Get home or into work
🤧 Blow your nose, sneeze or cough
🍽️ Eat or handle food

— Department of Health and Social Care (@DHSCgovuk) March 7, 2020

There have been 206 confirmed cased of coronavirus in the UK, with the highest number recorded in London.

As of 7am today, 21,460 people have been tested in the UK, of which 21,254 were confirmed negative.

Two patients who tested positive for COVID-19 have died.

The current advice from Public Health England and the NHS, to stop reduce the spread of coronavirus, is to wash your hands with soap and water, often, for at least 20 seconds.

Wash your hands when you get home or into work, always use hand gel if soap and water is not available.

It also urges people to avoid close contact with people who are unwell.