From 2 June, hotels can reopen, followed by outdoor service at restaurants and pubs from 7 June.

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Twenty million doses have been ordered for the UK and will arrive later this year.

NHS Tayside say cases numbers have risen significantly, while a bar in Fort William is also linked to a new outbreak.

The city will continue to be the only part of Scotland still under tougher Covid restrictions.

Venues will need to limit groups to a maximum of six people from six households.

Some scientists suggest the reopening date should be delayed until more people are fully vaccinated.

People in Glasgow have been enduring some of the strictest restrictions in the country since last autumn.

It follows a rise in vandalism, overnight camping and littering at some of Wales' beauty spots.

A foul-mouthed outburst at a Covid public meeting earned Nick Johns a police caution.

The number of cases in the city has come down to under 1500 from the peaks of 25,000 in April.

After a slow start, Wales took a risk and it has paid off in a big way, a strategy consultant says.

Wales' Children's Commissioner Sally Holland says they should not last "a day longer than necessary".

India has recorded about 26 million Covid-19 cases - second only to the US and is seen as the new epicentre of the global pandemic. The second wave has overwhelmed the healthcare system in recent weeks, leaving hospitals struggling to cope and critical drugs and oxygen in short supply. In certain areas, infections seem to be slowing down and earlier this week, daily reported cases fell below 200,000 for the first time since mid April.

Bhramar Mukherjee, a University of Michigan biostatistician, explains that even if the second wave appears to be waning for India as a whole, it is by no means true for all states as it is still rising in Tamil Nadu and in much of the north east. She also believes that reported numbers of infections and deaths are 'gross underestimates', with 1.2 million deaths being closer to the real figure, rather than the 315,000 that has been reported.

Photo: A relative prays during the last rites of a COVID-19 victim at a cremation ground, May 2021 Credit: EPA

Italy announces another big rise in the number of people who have died, bringing the total to 463.

The health secretary denies claims he misled the PM at the start of the pandemic about testing.

Four Covid deaths were registered in the week up to last Friday, three down from the previous week.

But Nicola Sturgeon says health officials are optimistic the city can move to level 2 at the end of next week.

Patience Atuhaire
BBC News, Kampala

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Hundreds of people are queuing at Uganda's health ministry offices to get vaccinated as the country enters its second wave of the pandemic.

Facilities are reportedly running out of doses by 13:00 local time.

Some social media users have also been sharing their experiences of going from facility to facility seeking to get vaccinated.

Director General of Health Services at the Health Ministry, Henry Mwebesa, said that it had taken less than 10 days for the second wave to reach full-blown pandemic level.

He also announced that vaccine doses will be withdrawn from rural health facilities and brought to the capital, Kampala, and surrounding districts where demand is high.

The country started Covid vaccinations in March after receiving 864,000 doses of AstraZeneca through the Covax facility.

Frontline workers such as healthcare providers, teachers, security forces and all people over 70 years of age were given first priority. The guidelines were later revised to include people aged 50 and over, but the public was largely reluctant to get the jab.

To date, just over 550,000 people have got the jab.