• There are just a few hours to go until the UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock appears in the House of Commons to speak to MPs. He came under fierce attack from former No 10 adviser Dominic Cummings yesterday, who said he was "completely incapable of doing the job" and said he "should have been fired" for lying. Mr Hancock has already put out a statement denying the claims but today will be the first time we hear directly from him. For a summary of Cummings' main claims, that's here
• GPs in England say they are struggling to cope with demand as lockdown eases. Due to a combination of rising numbers of patients needing care, restrictions on access and a shortage of GPs, there are warnings that patients are not being able to get seen
• Northern Ireland opens its vaccination programme to everyone over 18. Slots will be announced every Thursday - with 20,000 initially
• Air passengers say they are getting easily tripped up when trying to follow the complicated rules on testing before travel. "Even when you triple check the rules, you could be refused to board," says one woman, an NHS worker, who was refused boarding because they had the wrong type of negative test result
• Meanwhile, France is imposing a seven-day quarantine rule on all travellers from the UK from 31 May. They say it's due to the spread of the Indian Covid variant
• US President Joe Biden says the US intelligence community is split on whether the Covid virus was the result of a lab accident, or emerged from human contact with an infected animal. He's asked intelligence officials to "redouble" efforts to investigate and report back within 90 days
• The state of Ohio in the US has been running a vaccine lottery - offering the chance to win a $1m prize to adults or college scholarships to youngsters who get the vaccine. The idea is to make an incentive to boost vaccination rates, and the state has just announced its first winners.

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Belgium has halted use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for anyone under 41, after a woman died in hospital with thrombosis clot and low blood platelets. The EU’s medicines agency is reviewing the case. The same age rules already apply in Belgium to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. So far most J&J doses have been given to over-45s in Belgium.

The Spanish government has reached an initial agreement with unions and business groups to prolong the country’s furlough scheme until the end of September. The ERTE scheme currently supports over half a million workers. At its peak it was helping 3.6 million people.

German federal and state leaders will consider what to do about vaccinating children, at a summit today. Two vaccine makers are applying for EU approval for over 12s but political leaders have to decide if the risk of children getting Covid is lower than potential side effects of a vaccine. Meanwhile Austria’s health ministry believes the EU’s medicines agency is set to approve the Pfizer vaccine for 12-15 year-olds tomorrow.

French pharmaceutical firm Sanofi has announced the last phase of its Covid vaccine trial. It’s aiming for approval in the last few months of 2021.

German scientists believe they’ve found the cause of rare blood-clotting incidents of people who’ve had the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccinations. The study hasn’t been peer-reviewed yet but the researchers say vaccines that use cold viruses known as adenovirus vectors to deliver the dose send part of it into cell nuclei where instructions for making Covid proteins can be misread. Those new proteins could trigger a blood clot, they say.

Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner says it was “incredibly devastating” to hear what Dominic Cummings said yesterday.

“My thoughts are with the thousands of families that lost their loved ones. There are answers that need to be given to the public," she tells BBC Breakfast.

She’s calling on the government to publish the document showing the lessons they have learnt, but also start the planned public inquiry sooner than next year.

“I’m not confident that the government have done enough - and certainly not with Dominic’s testimony yesterday - that the government have learnt the lessons to protect our loved ones going into the future,” she says.

Rayner is asked about the claims made against Matt Hancock – including that he lied during meetings held in the Downing Street cabinet room about testing people before they were discharged from hospital into care homes during the first wave. The health secretary has rejected the allegations.

Asked whether Hancock should stay in his role if he doesn’t give satisfactory answers today, Rayner says: “No, no minister who lies to the public – especially not with the consequences that we have – should be in their post.”

Rayner also responds to the claim by Cummings that Boris Johnson said he would rather see "bodies pile high" than order a third lockdown in the autumn of 2020, seeming to confirm a BBC report and contradict the prime minister's denials.

"People need to understand the consequences of that cavalier attitude that our prime minister had to our loved ones," she says.

"As someone who lost one of their loved ones in this crisis through this pandemic, I find it abhorrent that the prime minister would make those comments - whether in public or private."

There's just one lead story for all of this morning's papers: Dominic Cummings and his seven hours of evidence to MPs. Picture after picture of Boris Johnson's former top aide delivering his explosive claims about mistakes made by the government during the Covid pandemic dominate all the front pages.

The Guardian, external, the Daily Mirror , externaland the i newspaper , externalall pick the same quote from his testimony for their main headline - "tens of thousands of people died, who didn't need to die".

For the Guardian, the hearing was an "excoriating attack". The paper says it resembled a Netflix miniseries. No-one who watched was left doubting that Cummings intended to settle scores, says its editorial, external, but "a self-serving witness can still get evidence that is both damning and true".

The Mirror predicts the "mesmerising" account will be "deeply damaging". Its political editor points out that, in the end, it's "not the excuses, the blame shifting, the settling of scores, or the clashes of egos" that matter the most - it's finding out who's responsible for the "unforgivably high" number of deaths.

Under the headline "Domshell", the Daily Mail says , externalCummings' "extraordinary performance" amounted to a "dramatic bid to bring down the prime minister." In its editorial, the Mail calls him a "flawed witness" - but says many of his words "ring true".

Welcome to our live coverage. We’ll be bringing you live updates throughout the day.

It was a huge day for coronavirus news in the UK yesterday – the PM’s former chief adviser Dominic Cummings answered questions from MPs about the government’s handling of the pandemic.

It was the first time we've heard directly in this way from one of those involved in the decision-making.

To catch-up on the most explosive claims, we've got a round-up here.