What's happening?published at 08:58 British Summer Time 26 July 2021
Let's start with a look at some of the coronavirus news around this morning:
- Senior ministers are due to decide whether to further expand daily Covid testing to fully-vaccinated key workers who have been in contact with a coronavirus case
- Testing replaces self-isolation today for staff who are "pinged" by the NHS app who work in the food supply chain and transport and emergency service workers
- The number of new Covid-19 cases has fallen for the fifth day in a row in the UK for the first time since February
- The UK recorded 29,173 new cases on Sunday - down from 48,161 a week earlier on 18 July
- In the US, the Delta variant's driving the Covid spike in areas with low vaccination rates, says the country's top infectious disease expert, who warns the country is heading "in the wrong direction"
- And the prime minster of Tunisia has been sacked and parliament suspended following violent demonstrations over the government's mishandling of the pandemic