According to the latest figures in the last 24 hours, the US has surpassed its previous daily high of 45,557 on Wednesday. In daily figures for Friday, the US has reported 45,942 cases as new cases in Texas, Florida and California surge, according to a tally by NBS news. The UK has recorded a further 100 deaths from COVID-19 which makes it the highest Saturday increase in weeks according to the latest figures. The UK's death total now stands at 43,514 following the release of the latest figures from the Department for Health and Social Care. The number of positive cases has also increased by 890 to 310,250. This differs from the earlier number from the devolved nations as it includes deaths from all settings. Holidaymakers are expected to be allowed to travel to certain European nations without having to obey the 14-day quarantine rule upon their return.
The Government is expected to include Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Norway, Turkey, the Netherlands and Finland. Portugal and Sweden are not expected to make the cut.
But Greek tourism minister Haris Theoharis this morning pushed back against the July 6 date, suggesting it could take weeks for his country to safely establish an air bridge with Britain.
He said the Greek Government was working closely with health experts to devise a plan to kick-start the country's tourism industry.
He said while the UK appears to be moving "in the right direction" in terms of bringing back holidays, "it's a matter of a few days or a few weeks to ensure that all restrictions are lifted".
Mr Theoharis said that if new outbreaks did not appear, "we can certainly lift the restrictions in the next few days or, you know, two to three weeks".
He added: "As soon as we have more clarity, we'll be able to convey the right dates and the right message so that's why it's not easy for me to pinpoint exact dates. I'm just giving you the feeling of the advice that we get from the experts currently."
He said Greece is looking forward to hosting British holidaymakers again when the time comes.
His comments come as a tourism chief warns of Britons "nervousness" ahead of July 6 holidays.
VisitBritain's director of strategy and communications Patricia Yates said holidays will "look very different".
She told BBC Breakfast people may experience a "real nervousness" around travel, as she warned the industry has suffered a loss of around £37 billion during lockdown.
Ms Yates said: "We've been doing weekly consumer sentiment and we've seen a real nervousness about travelling, even domestically, through the summer."
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Sunday June 28
6.25am update: Leicester lockdown
There could be a localised lockdown in Leicester according to the Sunday Times.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock is reviewing legislation after the city reported over 650 infections in the fortnight leading up to June 16.
Mr Hanock is said to be considering "all options"
6.15am update: July 6
Ministers have said blanket restrictions on non-essential travel is set to be eased from July 6.
It is expected Britons would be able to travel to Spain, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Finland, Belgium, Turkey, Germany and Norway without having to quarantine upon rearrival, but confirmation is not expected until next week.
John Keefe, director of public affairs at Eurotunnel, told the BBC that bookings "exploded when the news came out."
6.00am update: Man discharged after 95 days
Keith Watson was admitted to Margate's Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital on March 20.
He would spend 95 days in the hospital, including 41 in intensive care according to the Daily Star.
He is now at home in Herne Bay and told Mail Online: "'I can't believe I'm still alive, that's the hardest part to understand. I think about the people who didn't make it - there's been quite a few.
"I was quite overwhelmed driving down my road. It was the first time I could cuddle my 17-year-old daughter in 96 days.
"It was the first time I could kiss my wife - it was fantastic."
5.00am update: Nightingale
The NHS Nightingale hospital in London recorded 144 patient safety incidents during its 29 days in operation in which it treated 54 patients.
20 patients are still recovering in London hospitals.
Johanna Cade, a nurse at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS trust and who worked at the Nightingale, told the Independent: “We had quite high incident reporting at 144 incidents reported and I think that demonstrates that Nightingale really did well at building a no blame safety culture for resolution and learning. This system manifested itself and staff were really striving to make things better continually. We knew who to report to and how to escalate things.”
The newspaper reports 25 of the incidents were to do with ventilators.
Ms Cade said the vast majority of incidents led to no or little harm to the patient.
4.00am update: Florida
Florida's Department of Health confirmed 9,585 new coronavirus infections in just 24 hours, the highest daily tally recorded.
24 people in the state have also died.
Kami Kim, director of the Division of Infectious Disease and International Medicine at the University of South Florida told the Mirror: "It was just complete denial by a huge swath of the politicians.
"Unfortunately, our community still isn't taking it very seriously. People aren't wearing masks."
3.00am update: Fiji tourism
Frank Bainimarama, the Prime Minister of Fiji has called for VIPs to come to the country to help restore the nation's paralysed tourist-dependent economy.
He tweeted: “So, say you’re a billionaire looking to fly your own jet, rent your own island, and invest millions of dollars in Fiji in the process.
"If you’ve taken all the necessary health precautions and borne all associated costs, you may have a new home to escape the pandemic in paradise."
2.00am update: Portugal lockdown
Portugal has reintroduced lockdown for 700,000 people living around the capital Lisbon this week.
Prime Minister António Costa explained: “Everybody has to understand that this additional effort is essential: COVID has not disappeared.
“The only effective way to control it is to do what we did very well during the state of emergency, which is to stay at home as much as possible, to maintain social distancing as much as possible."
1.00am update: Californian and Texan peaks
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) reported 5,790 hospitalisations on Saturday, with around 1,500 to intensive care.
Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed at least 5,523 hospitalisations.
Both figures represent peaks for the two states.
12.00am update: Zurich quarantine
Zurich's health authority has quarantined almost 300 guests and staff from the Flamingo Club nightclub for 10 days.
A reveller has tested positive for coronavirus and five other people at the club with him have also tested positive.
The health authority explained: "In case of further super spreader events, the closure of clubs must be considered."
Saturday June 27
11.00pm update: Brazil strikes deal to produce vaccine
Brazil on Saturday announced a deal to produce up to 100 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine being developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca.
The deal is worth $127million (£103million) and will see the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation acquire the technology and supplies to produce the vaccine, currently being tested.
Health Ministry executive secretary Elcio Franco told a news conference: “The transfer of this technology will give us production autonomy.
“Brazil is trying to avoid situations like the ones that occurred at the start of the pandemic, when high demand prevented us from accessing supplies and medicine. And we are avoiding the exorbitant profit margins being applied during the pandemic.”
Under the deal, Brasilia will have the right to produce 30.4 million does in December and January.
Gursimran Hans has taken over live reporting from Bill McLoughlin.
9.54pm update: US records single daily rise record
With cases surging in Texas, Arizona and Florida, NBC News has reported cases of COVID-19 have risen by 45,942 on Friday.
The overall numbers for Saturday have not yet been released but experts have insisted the US has begun to reopen too early.
Dr Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institue said: "This is happening because much of the country around Memorial Day, and the weeks that followed, we opened up while we still had a large number of cases."
8.57pm update: Zurich quarantines nearly 300 nightclubs
Three clubs were quarantined after six people contracted coronavirus.
7.30pm update: Global coronavirus cases close in on 10 million
Global coronavirus cases are closing in on 10 million with almost 500,000 deaths.
The latest Reuters count has found there are 9.86 million people who have been infected with COVID-19 and 494,351 fatalities.
6.50pm update: Newly appointed shadow education secretary vows to open schools ‘as soon as possible’
Sir Keir Starmer has appointed Kate Green as the new Shadow Education Secretary.
Ms Green said: "It's a privilege to have been asked to serve as shadow education secretary.
"The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact on children's education.
"I look forward to working with teachers, unions, parents and councils to help ensure we get our children back in school as soon as possible."
6.25pm update: Thousands book trips on Eurotunnel causing technical problems as COVID-19 fears ease
Thousands of holidaymakers have begun bookig trips on the Eurotunnel causing issues with the company's systems as coronavirus fears ease on the continent.
Asked about the number of bookings, a spokesman for Eurotunnel said: "More than we've had in a day for the whole year."
Eurotunnel Le Shuttle wrote on Twitter: "We're sorry that online bookings aren't working properly today. It seems that too many users are trying to make a booking.
"We're working hard to get the website working again ASAP. Apologies for the inconvenience."
6.00pm update: Ireland records six more COVID-19 deaths
Health authorities in Ireland have confirmed a further six people have died after testing positive for coronavirus taking the death toll to 1,734.
5.22pm update: Florida reports 9,585 cases
Health officials in the US state report the number is the highest seen in the state since the beginning of the pandemic.
There have now been 132,545 cases of COVID-19 in Florida alone.
5.03pm update: UK has the tools to eliminate coronavirus
The architect of one of the world's most effective coronavirus responses, professor Michael Baker, has stated the UK could eliminate the virus-like New Zealand.
The country has only recorded 22 deaths from the virus.
He said: “Ultimately, a strategy of containment and elimination can offer a way out of this scenario as it aims to create a situation where people come out of lockdown into a virus-free population.
"The UK has all the tools you need to pursue containment and elimination if you choose to. The alternative is going in and out of lockdown for months, if not years.”
4.34pm update: Vaccine will be "triumph for humanity'
Addressing the Unite for Our Future event, Boris Johnson praised the efforts going into developing a vaccine.
He said: "In great swathes of the world, home to billions of people, the disease is still accelerating, so the race for a vaccine, for better treatments, for quick and reliable tests - that race must go on.
"Defeating the pandemic is the most important shared endeavour of our times.
"And when we do so, it will not be a victory for one nation, but a triumph for all humanity."
4.08pm update: UK records 100 new deaths
The latest figures from the Department for Health and Social Care has reported 100 new deaths.
That brings the total to 43,514.
Cases of the virus have risen by 890, taking the total number to 310,250.
3.49pm update: Oxford University to trial rapid coronavirus test
Oxford University is set to trial a new 15-minute coronavirus test in care homes and hospitals.
Professor Gail Hayward, an associate professor at the University Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Services said researchers were now developing rapid saliva and swab tests.
Speaking to the Today programme, he said: "There are a wide range of different, innovative tests that have been developed by our UK life sciences industry and more internationally.
"They don't all use swabs, some of them are looking at saliva and they don't all use the same sort of chemicals that the lab tests would need so they give us a different sort of route to getting these answers.
“Ideally you take a test, you put it straight into a machine or run it through something that looks a bit like a pregnancy test and it gives you the answer, so the shortest ones that we are looking at are about 15 minutes."
3.25pm update: Russia reports 6,852 new cases
According to officials statistics, Russia has reported a further 6,852 cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.
There were also a further 188 deaths compared with 176 the previous day.
3.18pm update: David Davis presses Matt Hancock on Vitamin D treatment
The former Brexit Secretary and MP for Haltmeprice and Howden, published a response from the Health Secretary on the trials on the link between Vitamin D and the severity of the virus.
He said: "After some delay, I have received a response from Matt Hancock on random control trials on the link between Vitamin D and the seriousness of COVID-19 outcomes."
Bill McLoughlin takes over from Laura O'Callaghan.
2.52pm update: UK's sees biggest Saturday death toll in a month
Eighty-four people across the UK have died in the past 24 hours after testing positive for COVID-19.
This marks the highest Saturday death toll in weeks.
On June 6 a total of 77 deaths were confirmed, 36 on June 13, and 43 on June 20.
2.45pm update: One coronavirus death in NI
This takes Northern Ireland's death toll to 549.
2.36pm update: Five new deaths in Wales
2.33pm update: No new deaths in Scotland
Fifteen new coronavirus cases have been recorded in Scotland.
2.27pm update: 78 new coronavirus deaths in England
A further 78 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospital in England, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 28,635, NHS England said.
Patients were aged between 56 and 97 years old. Two patients, aged 73 and 96, had no known underlying health conditions.
1.24pm update: Tackling coronavirus crisis main focus of Micheal Martin
Speaking as the newly-elected Taoiseach of the 33rd Irish parliament, Micheal Martin said tackling coronavirus will be the main focus of his role in the months ahead.
He said: "We are meeting away from our permanent chamber because of a historic pandemic which has struck Ireland and the rest of the world.
"As of today, 2,278 people on this island have lost their lives.
"Many thousands more have fought a long struggle to recover. There is no community, no part of our country, which has escaped untouched.
"In the last three-and-a-half months, enormous progress has been made in controlling the spread of the virus and treating those who have become sick.
"The struggle against the virus is not over. We must continue to contain its spread. We must be ready to tackle any new wave, and we must move forward rapidly to secure a recovery to benefit all of our people."
12.34pm update: Warning: COVID remains 'clear, present and global danger'
The world's largest online auction for supporting charities addressing the five D's of the COVID-19 virus - death, disease, depression, domestic violence and disproportionality for ethnic minorities - will mark its closing today with a speech by crypto-currency pioneer Brock Pierce about philanthropy and art as collectible investments.
Mr Pierce is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist with an extensive track record of founding, advising and investing in disruptive businesses.
Mr Pierce said: "Covid represents a clear, present and global danger.
"There's no time like the present to fight this danger."
A total of 255 pieces of art are being auctioned to bidders from across the globe by Art&Co. Funds raised are being shared by seven registered charities and 46 artists who have come together in the fight against COVID-19.
11.27am update: Global COVID cases surpass 9.9 million
There are now more than 9.9 million cases of coronavirus around the world, according to data from worldometer.
And the worldwide death toll stands at 497,363.
10.52am update: Indonesia reports 37 new COVID-19 deaths
The total death count in the Asian country now stands at 2,720.
And 1,385 new infections were today added to the tally, bringing the total to 52,812.
10.29am update: Greeks happy to open air bridge to Britain
Greek tourism minister Haris Theoharis indicated it could be up to three weeks before his country is happy to open up an air bridge to the UK.
He told BBC Breakfast: "We're currently consulting with our health experts, but I think given the fact that the UK is in the right direction, it's a matter of a few days or a few weeks to ensure that all restrictions are lifted.
"So I feel the way things are now - and we always have to put this asterisk that the health situation has to continue to be on the same track as it is now - that we can certainly lift the restrictions in the next few days or, you know, two to three weeks."
He added: "As soon as we have more clarity, we'll be able to convey the right dates and the right message so that's why it's not easy for me to pinpoint exact dates. I'm just giving you the feeling of the advice that we get from the experts currently."
He said Greece is looking forward to hosting British holidaymakers again when the time comes.
He said: "Our friends from the UK are always welcome in our country."
9.20am update: Tax rises inevitable to help post-COVID economy recover, warns Sir John Major
Former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major has argued that tax rises were not suitable in the short-term but that they would be needed as Britain's coronavirus recovery got under way.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I think to put up taxes before the economy has recovered, which may take a while, would in my view be a mistake.
"But, over time, I think there is little doubt that taxes are going to rise.
"For the moment, because interest rates are so low and likely to remain so, it is possible for borrowing to take the strain in the way it couldn't have done a quarter of a century ago."
Asked whether further borrowing was suitable when debt levels were currently 100 percent of national income, Sir John said: "I think it is going to be inevitable in the short term.
"I think there is scope in the short term - not forever, there is no magic money tree, let me make that clear - but for a period until the economy is recovered and taxes for some people can then go up."
8.42am update: No buffet breakfasts in hotels as hospitality sector prepares to reopen
VisitEngland director Patricia Yates has said holidays will "look very different" with no buffet breakfasts and hotels operating at reduced occupancy.
She told BBC Breakfast: "I love hotel buffet breakfast - they are a thing of the past.
"And hotels will have to have social distancing so they won't be opening at full occupancy and businesses will have to look at the sort of services they provide and really pruning those down to make sure that the infection control, that the cleansing regime is right and that they can have social distancing.
"So I think, be prepared for some things not to look quite as you normally expect them."
8.37am update: Czech coronavirus cases rise just as holidays start
The Czech Republic recorded 168 new cases of the coronavirus on Friday, authorities said, the highest daily rise in cases since early April just as the country is starting the two-month summer holiday season.
It was also the fourth day of the last 10 showing a daily increase of more than 100.
Over the past week, the eastern region of Karvina has been by far the most affected by the rise in cases, according to the Health Ministry website.
Friday was the last day of school for most children and students, with their families getting ready for the holidays.
8.01am update: Australia's Victoria struggles to contain coronavirus
]Australia's state of Victoria recorded 41 new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Saturday, double the daily rate seen a week ago, struggling to gain control over the pandemic while the rest of the country continues easing social distancing restrictions.
Victoria, the country's second-most-populated state, has now seen 11 straight days of double digit new cases, most linked to known outbreaks in Melbourne's suburbs, health officials said.
Victoria has 204 of Australia's total of about 270 active cases.
Deputy chief health officer of Victoria, Annaliese van Diemen, told reporters: "We are very concerned."
One of the new cases was a returned traveller.
7.55am update: Coronavirus detected in Barcelona sewage from March 2019
Traces of COVID-19 have been found in sewage samples taken from Barcelona in March 2019 - 11 months before mainland Spain confirmed its first coronavirus case.
The shocking finding comes after researchers found evidence that the virus was present in wastewater samples taken from Milan and Turin as early as last December.
The scientists' discovery raises serious questions about where and if the disease was spreading in the months before the first outbreak was reported in Wuhan, China, in December.
Experts have said the results of the test appear to be a one-off and cautioned against over-thinking the findings.
They suggested contaminated samples could be behind the outcome of the study.
However, a series of samples taken from Barcelona from January 15 onwards consistently showed traces of coronavirus.
The first case of the illness in mainland Spain was not confirmed until late February.
The team at Barcelona University used polymerise chain reaction (PCR) coronavirus tests to study the sewage.
The study is aimed at aiding the tracing and control of the virus.
Anyone who has been infected with coronavirus will pass COVID-19 cells in their faeces.
Professor of biology at the University, Albert Bosch, who led the research, said early detection could have led to a lower death toll.
He said: “In the specific case of Barcelona, having detected the contagion of SARS-CoV-2 a month earlier could have improved the response to the pandemic."
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