Coronavirus cases are continuing to soar, with today’s figures showing the UK total at 14,542 - almost 2,000 more than yesterday and a new daily high. (See 4.32pm.) Boris Johnson has said the UK must not return to the status quo after the coronavirus pandemic, promising a transformation akin to the “new Jerusalem” the postwar cabinet pledged in 1945. Additional coronavirus restrictions to be announced in Scotland on Wednesday will not amount to another lockdown, Nicola Sturgeon has said, moving to reassure the public that the country would not be “going back to March”. Some Tory MPs have been using a debate in the Commons to express concern about the operation of the rule of six. In the debate, which is still going on, the health minister Helen Whately has come under repeated pressure to explain why children are included in England’s rule of six, when that is not the case in Scotland or Wales. She was also asked to produce evidence that the rule is having an impact. Sir Christopher Chope told her she had failed to justify the law. We’re talking about draconian powers which are restricting the liberty of the British citizen, we shouldn’t be introducing draconian powers without the strongest possible justification - I don’t think the minister has set out any justification in her remarks. A vote is likely soon, but any backbench revolt tonight is expected to be minimal. Ministers are much more worried about what would happen in a vote on the compulsory 10pm closing time, which is deeply unpopular with Conservative and, unlike the rule of six, also opposed in its current form by Labour. The head of the International Monetary Fund has said the recovery in the global economy since the spring is fragile and warned Rishi Sunak and his fellow policymakers against an over-hasty withdrawal of support. A ban on residential school trips risks an “economic, social and cultural disaster” and the loss of 15,000 UK jobs unless it is lifted by spring, ministers are being warned. Students in lockdown must have access to food and basic toiletries, university leaders have said, as the government made deliveries of just one litre of hand sanitiser to campuses in England. The Roman Catholic church in Glasgow has expressed its “disappointment” after it was reported that the SNP MP Margaret Ferrier attended a church service and gave a reading to the congregation the day after she took a test for coronavirus. That’s all from me for today. But our coverage continues on our global coronavirus live blog. It’s here.