Geeta Pandey
BBC News, Delhi

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For millions of Indians, Jasleen Bhalla's is a familiar voice.

The voiceover artist, who's behind the iconic coronavirus caller tune instructing Indians how to behave during the pandemic, has come to be known as India's "corona voice".

For the past two-and-a-half months, it's Ms Bhalla's warm and soothing voice that millions of Indians first hear when they make a telephone call.

A voice actor for a decade now, she is also the voice of a private airline, one of India's biggest telecom companies and the Delhi Metro's airport service - it's her voice that tells you what the next station is and whether the doors will open on the right or the left.

But it's the coronavirus campaign that has brought her into the limelight.

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Bosses at restaurant and food chains in the UK, including Wagamama and Pizza Hut, have warned the prime minister that the sector faces mass job cuts without more help.

In a letter to Boris Johnson backed by 90 firms, they say that if social distancing remains they will need action on tax, rents and other support.

Without more help, the sector faces "grave damage", the firms say.

Deliveroo organised the letter, which was signed by its partner restaurants including Itsu and Pret A Manger.

You can read more on their warning here.

Somali-born US congresswoman Ilhan Omar has announced the death of her father with Covid-19.

Ms Omar and her father, Nur Mohamed, came to the US as refugees in 1995 during Somalia's civil war. She is one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress.

As we've been reporting, further restrictions on travel and extensive testing procedures are coming into force in China’s capital Beijing to try to prevent the spread of a new coronavirus outbreak.

Beijing had previously had 50 days without any local transmission. BBC Newsday’s Lawrence Pollard spoke to Ben Cowling, division head of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Hong Kong University.

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The number of UK workers on payrolls fell by more than 600,000 between March and May as lockdown hit Britain's labour market, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

However, the unemployment rate remained broadly the same at 3.9% over the three months to April.

Jonathan Athow, deputy national statistician at the ONS, explains the drop in the number of people on payrolls is an "early indicator" of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the labour market but says "we haven't quite seen the downturn feed through into unemployment yet".

Speaking on Radio 4's Today programme he says data up to April shows a "dramatic drop" in the number of hours worked - down almost 9% in the latest period.

He says this is partly due to "a six million rise in people away from work, including those furloughed".

Read more here.

Rosie Garthwaite & Ian Anderson
BBC Arabic

Contact tracing apps used in Kuwait and Bahrain have been deemed among the most invasive in the world by rights group Amnesty, who says they put the privacy and security of their users at risk.

Amnesty says the "BeAware Bahrain" and "Shlonik" apps were carrying out live or near-live tracking of the users' location by uploading GPS co-ordinates to a central server.

Most contact-tracing apps rely solely on Bluetooth signals, but Bahrain and Kuwait's capture location data through GPS and upload this to a central database, tracking the movements of users in real time.

The researchers say Bahraini and Kuwaiti authorities would be able to easily link this sensitive personal information to an individual, as users are required to register with a national ID number. Other countries' contact tracing apps anonymise users.

Amnesty has called for these Gulf states to stop using these apps in their current forms.

Read more about the concern over these apps here.

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Pressure is mounting on the government to continue its voucher scheme for children who qualify for free school meals in England over the summer.

There is growing unease among some Tory MPs over the refusal to extend the support, as footballer Marcus Rashford continues to campaign on the issue.

In an emotional open letter to MPs, Manchester United forward Rashford drew on his own experience of relying on free school meals and food banks growing up. He said his story was "all too familiar for families in England".

While provision is to continue through the summer in Scotland and Wales, it will stop at the end of term in England and Northern Ireland.

Ministers say free school meals are not usually continued into the summer holidays.

Read more here.

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Next year's Oscars ceremony has been pushed back by two months, the latest big celebrity event to have been affected by the coronavirus outbreak.

The Academy Awards were due to take place on 28 February next year but have now been put back until 25 April 2021.

Organisers have also agreed to extend the eligibility window for film releases beyond 31 December 2020 to the end of February.

Next year's British Academy Film Awards (Baftas) have been pushed back to 11 April, keeping in line with the Oscars.

Read the full story here.

Katherine Sellgren
Family & Education reporter

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A little more now on the study which found that nine in 10 teachers in England say their pupils are doing less or much less work than they would normally at this time of the year.

Head teachers think around a third of pupils are not engaging with the work set for home learning, according to a report by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER).

NFER raises particular concern about children from disadvantaged areas, saying pupil engagement is lower in schools with the highest levels of deprivation.

It comes as a study, external finds pupils across the UK are studying for an average of 2.5 hours a day during lockdown - about half that indicated by a previous study.

Read more here.

The Chinese capital of Beijing has banned high-risk people - such as close contacts of confirmed cases - from leaving the city.

It comes as a new cluster of cases has emerged - all linked to the city's largest wholesale market. The first market-linked case was recorded on Thursday and cases have been rising since then. Beijing had not seen any new cases for more than 50 days before this.

All outbound taxi and car-hailing services, as well as some long-distance bus routes have also been suspended.

And other parts of the country are also on high alert. Shanghai has now started to require arriving travellers from medium- to high-risk Covid-19 areas in China to be quarantined for 14 days.

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Good morning and a very warm welcome if you're just joining us as the day gets under way here in the UK.

Here's a look at the latest coronavirus-related news from across the country.

• Teachers say their pupils are doing less or much less work than they would normally at this time of the year, as most remain out of school, a study has found. Head teachers believe around a third of pupils are not engaging with set work, according to the report by the National Foundation for Educational Research
• Pressure is mounting on the government to continue its voucher scheme for free school meals for vulnerable children in England over the summer
• In Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon has said she wants 'normal' schooling back 'as quickly as possible'
• Bosses from the restaurant sector, including Pizza Hut, Wagamama and Itsu, have warned the prime minister the sector faces mass job cuts without more help

• Non-essential shops have now reopened in England, as lockdown restrictions are eased. If you're unsure about which ones are open, we have a full guide on what's up and running around the UK and what measures are in place to protect customers

Satyendar Jain, health minister for India's capital Delhi, has been admitted to a hospital in the city due to a "sudden drop in oxygen levels" and a high fever, he said in a tweet on Tuesday.

On Monday, Jain attended a meeting where India's Home Minister Amit Shah and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal were present. He is reportedly going to be tested for Covid-19 later on Tuesday.

Kejriwal tested negative for the virus last week after complaining of a fever and sore throat.

With more than 40,000 confirmed cases, Delhi is among the worst-affected areas in India.

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As we've mentioned, eight million people worldwide have now been infected with the virus.

The US still remains the country hardest hit with more than 2 million cases and more than 100,000 deaths.

But the geographical location of the virus is shifting. The spotlight was once on China, then much of Europe, but Latin America now looks like the new centre of the virus.

Brazil has just under 889,000 confirmed cases, Peru is at 232,000 and Chile has 179,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

Despite this, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has continued downplaying the virus, saying earlier this month that death was "everyone's destiny".

Eyes are also turning towards South Asia.

The virus is on the rise in countries like India - with cases rising despite lockdown efforts.

Over in Pakistan, authorities say they will re-impose localised lockdowns after a minister warned that cases could reach as high as 1.2 million by the end of July.

Pakistan had earlier lifted restrictions on 9 May citing economic stress - and has since seen infection rates rise quickly.

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A Vietnamese entrepreneur is installing "free rice ATMs" across the country to help those affected by the coronavirus.

Businessman Hoang Tuan Anh first built the rice-dispensing machines in Ho Chi Minh City to support those who had lost their jobs. The ATMs became so popular he is building more around Vietnam.

Mr Hoang told the BBC: "I wanted to invent a 24/7 automatic dispensing machine providing free rice for people out of work following an ongoing nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus."

Rice is stored in giant vats and funnelled through pipes to the dispenser. When a person presses a button on the "ATM", a volunteer gets an alert on their phone and releases the rice.

Read more here

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It's been just over a week since India eased out of its stringent lockdown and cases have been spiking. Earlier this week, India recorded more than 11,000 fresh infections daily for three days, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

India has the fourth-highest number of Covid-19 cases in the world now with more than 300,000 infections. And there's growing concern over rising cases in the national capital, Delhi, where hospitals are buckling under the pressure. Reports of patients being turned away at hospitals emerged last week.

There has been spurts of good news as well - Dharavi, India's largest slum, has seen infections drop recently, local media reported. Since April, officials have screened almost 700,000 people in the slum and set up fever clinics, external, reported local outlet NDTV. Daily infections have come down to a third of what they were in May, simultaneously bringing down the number of deaths too.

But it's clear that infections are growing by the day and experts are worried that the virus hasn't yet peaked in India, with some expecting the worst when monsoon season hits in July and August.

As many European countries continue to ease their lockdowns, beach resorts in Italy are gearing up for a Covid-secure 2020 season.

Face masks, hand sanitiser and more space between sun-loungers are being put in place.

One beach resort owner, 84-year-old Arnaldo Valentini, has lived through a series of events which threatened his livelihood.

Video produced by Trystan Young, filmed by Elisabetta Zavoli.

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New Zealand has revealed that the country's two latest virus cases were women aged in their 30s and 40s who were allowed to fly from the UK to New Zealand on compassionate grounds.

They arrived in Auckland on 7 June and immediately went into self-isolation.

One of them had been exhibiting "mild symptoms" but chalked this down to a pre-existing condition, said New Zealand's Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield in a press conference on Tuesday.

They applied for an exemption on 12 June to visit their dying parent in Wellington - who died later on that day. On 13 June, they made the trip to Wellington in a private vehicle and did not have any contact with anyone on the journey.

They stayed with a single family member upon their arrival in Wellington. That family member has now gone into self-isolation.

Dr Bloomfield said he was "not nervous" that the women might have infected anyone else, adding that the women "did everything that was asked of them".

It's still a battle between Australian states over border closures at the moment.

South Australia has just announced that from midnight, it will open up to Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory (all regions which have had next to no cases in recent weeks).

But it's still banning people coming from Queensland, New South Wales (Sydney) and Victoria (Melbourne) until next month.

Victoria- the second-most populous state- is still recording tiny numbers of community transmissions - although none were recorded in the nine new cases confirmed overnight.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been urging the states to reopen their borders - saying there's no medical reason to keep interstate travel off-limits.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has withdrawn the use of anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus.

In March, the FDA granted the emergency use of the drug for some serious Covid-19 cases.

But it's now said new evidence from clinical trials meant that it was no longer reasonable to believe that the drug would produce an antiviral effect.

President Donald Trump has been a big fan of the drug - claiming last month that he was taking is as a preventative measure. On Monday he defended having promoting its use.

"I took it and I felt good about taking it," he told reporters. "I can't complain about it, I took it for two weeks, and I'm here, here we are."

Hello and welcome back to our live updates from around the world on the coronavirus pandemic. More than eight million people are now known to be infected globally.

Here are the latest developments:

• New Zealand has reported two new cases after a month without any - both are recent arrivals from the UK
• Teachers in the UK say students are doing much less work than normal while at home
• The US FDA has withdrawn the controversial drug hydroxychloroquine as a virus treatment
• And the 2021 Oscars as well as the Bafta awards ceremony have been delayed.