Matt Hancock filmed out in London park after Boris Johnson's national plea to 'stay home'

Matt Hancock was seen 'covered in mud' while carrying a rugby ball through a London park this afternoon the day after Boris Johnson pleaded with the nation to 'stay at home this weekend'. In other coronavirus news: The UK recorded another 1,295 coronavirus deaths and 41,346 new cases on Saturday - as fatalities continue to rise by more than 1,000 for the fifth day in a row; GPs are throwing away leftover vaccines rather than give patients second doses or use them on staff because of local NHS leaders' strict instructions; Laurence Fox sparked a row after posting a photo of himself on social media wearing a coronavirus mask 'exemption badge' that he ordered from Amazon; Britons in their 70s could start getting Covid jabs as early as next week as the vaccination programme continued at pace amid fears both Brazilian variants of the virus are 'likely' already in the UK; Police fined three people from different households for breaking coronavirus lockdown after their VW Golf was spotted travelling at 90mph in the snow on the M62; Rishi Sunak has rejected a proposal for an emergency wealth tax to recover the staggering £280billion the Government has spent so far on the coronavirus pandemic. An anti-lockdown protest has been going on in the city, but the number of people taking part has been minimal Police in London busted a pub in Hackney which had unlawfully opened - and shared a picture of the 12 pint glasses still on the bar Britain's streets were left nearly empty today as Covid-conscious Britons followed Boris Johnson's order to 'stay at home this weekend' amid high Covid figures Mounted police pass luxury shops on New Bond Street in Mayfair on January 16. SAGE published its weekly estimates of the R rate across the country and said the rate of spread appears to be coming down in regions that have been in lockdown since they were put in Tier 4 in December - London, the East and the South East However, he added: 'We've reached the position now where the Joint Biosecurity Centre can't give live scientific updates to predict which countries or regions may originate new variants.' It adds to growing evidence that Britain's second major outbreak has peaked as an app monitoring the spread of coronavirus in the UK said cases fell by 23 per cent last week.