Coronavirus latest: Here's what you need to know this Sunday morning, August 9

• The Black Horse Pub in Tollerton, near Easingwold has taken the precaution of closing following four positive tests for Covid 19. The NHS Test and Trace Service has identified all close contacts of these cases and advised them to self-isolate for 14 days. The cases developed among people who visited the pub between Thursday, July 30 and Monday, August 3. Meanwhile, academics said on Saturday that pubs create the "perfect storm" for spreading coronavirus and carry more risk than planes. Punters drinking together in an indoor pub are potentially subjecting themselves to a build-up of infected droplets caused by poor ventilation and people having continuous conversations, often speaking more loudly to be heard over the din of a noisy bar, the experts warn. The comments come after households mixing in pubs and homes was blamed for a rise in Covid-19 cases in Preston, resulting in it being the latest area to have lockdown restrictions reimposed.

Academics say pubs are the 'perfect storm' for spreading coronavirus Picture: Pixabay

• A further 15 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospital in England, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals to 29,401, NHS England said on Saturday. The patients were aged between 67 and 100 years old and all had known underlying health conditions apart from one 91-year-old. Twelve deaths were reported with no positive Covid-19 test result. The region with the highest number of deaths was the North East & Yorkshire with eight. There were no deaths reported in the North West, where local lockdown measures in place in Greater Manchester and parts of east Lancashire were extended on Friday to include Preston.
• Thousands of NHS workers have taken to the streets across the UK to demand better wages for staff left "on their knees" by the coronavirus pandemic. In London, health workers who have missed out on a public sector pay rise fell silent for two minutes as a mark of respect for colleagues who have lost their lives fighting Covid-19. Marchers were applauded by members of the public as they headed to Downing Street and chants of "Boris Johnson hear us shout, pay us properly or get out" were directed towards Number 10. One of dozens of marches planned around the country for Saturday, participants in the capital - many in scrubs - were wearing masks and tried to constantly maintain a social distance from one another.

NHS workers observe social distancing as they demonstrate outside Downing Street, London, as part of a national protest over pay Picture: PA 

• Young people in Preston are being targeted with a "Don't kill Granny" message to slow the spread of coronavirus after the area had lockdown restrictions imposed. Households mixing in pubs and homes has been blamed for a rise in cases in the city, but locals suggest the restrictions will not be taken seriously and pubs were said to be busy on Friday night despite the Government's intervention just hours earlier. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) announced on Friday that households in the city will be banned from mixing indoors or in gardens. It comes a week after the same measures were brought in for residents in Greater Manchester, parts of east Lancashire and West Yorkshire, as well as Leicester. The rules will remain in place for those areas for at least another week.

Venkata Reddy Nallamilli, 59, and wife Padma, 48, in Preston after the area had lockdown restrictions imposed Picture: PA