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Meningitis cases rise after 'unprecedented' outbreak | The UK Tonight with Jonathan Samuels
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45:33Now PlayingThe UK Tonight with Jonathan Samuels will dig into the issues people across the country are talking about and explain and analyse the news stories they need to know in a dynamic hour of domestic news.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has defended the authorities' response to what he called an "unprecedented" deadly meningitis outbreak in Kent.
A total of 15 cases of meningitis have now been notified to the UK Health Security Agency.
The family of a sixth-form pupil who has died say they are "beyond devastated"
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