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The coronavirus R rate in the UK has increased to between 1.1 and 1.4, the Government's Sage committee has said.

The R rate measures the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to, on average.

The higher R is above 1, the faster the epidemic is growing.

It comes as Downing Street has rejected claims that people are not able to get coronavirus tests in some areas of the country.

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