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We're bringing our rolling coverage of the pandemic to a close until Wednesday. Thank you for joining us on the day England announced a significant relaxation of lockdown restrictions.

In other developments around the world:

• US states including Florida are seeing a "disturbing surge" in cases, said top health adviser Dr Anthony Fauci
• Two German districts reintroduced lockdowns after more than 1,550 workers tested positive at a meat-processing plant
• World tennis number one Novak Djokovic tested positive for Covid-19 after playing in his Adria Tour tournament
• A judge in Brazil ordered President Jair Bolsonaro to wear a protective mask when in public spaces in the capital, Brasilia, and the surrounding federal district
• Worldwide, there have been more than nine million reported virus cases and nearly 474,000 deaths

Today's live page reporters were: Fran Gillett, Mary O'Connor, Jennifer Scott, Lucy Webster, Krutika Pathi, Mal Siret, Alexandra Fouché and Max Matza. The subs were Jasmine Taylor-Coleman and Claudia Allen. The editors were Owen Amos, Paul Kirby, John Hand and Vanessa Barford.

Earlier, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced sweeping changes to England's lockdown which will come into force on 4 July.

Here is a quick roundup of the key updates:

• Hotels, pubs, bars, cinemas and many other businesses can reopen following Covid secure guidelines. A full list is here
• England's 2m social distancing rule has been changed so that if it's not possible to maintain this, a "one metre plus" space will be acceptable if certain precautions are taken such as the use of face coverings
• Members of two different households can meet indoors, and stay over, but (unlike those in 'support bubbles') should stay socially distant

• The daily UK government coronavirus briefings which began on 16 March will end and now only take place for significant announcements

• Experts say that many thousands of people who have had serious Covid-19 will need to be recalled to hospital to see whether the disease has left them with severe lung damage.

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We've spent quite a bit of today updating you on the easing of coronavirus restrictions which will come into force in England on 4 July. But it's worth remembering that there are currently different lockdown rules in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and devolved governments are easing restrictions at a different rate to Westminster.

For example, in England, where it is not possible to maintain the 2m social distancing rule, people should keep a distance of "one metre plus" from 4 July. But in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the 2m rule remains in place for now.

You can read more about the main differences here.

Guy Delauney
BBC News, Belgrade

Croatia's prime minister says he will not enter self-isolation, despite meeting Novak Djokovic - who, as we reported earlier, has tested positive for the virus - at the Adria Tour event in Zadar.

Andrej Plenkovic said he had not had close contact with the tennis player, despite media photos which show him touching Djokovic's shoulder.

Opposition politicians have suggested Plenkovic should self-isolate. The PM has responded this is an attempt to remove him from political campaigning ahead of Croatia's parliamentary election on 5 July.

Earlier this week, he retweeted pictures of the tournament:

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It's only eight days since doors reopened to shoppers at England's non-essential retail stores but the owner of 17 of the UK's biggest and most famous shopping centres has warned that entire complexes could have to close because of its own financial problems.

Intu owns Lakeside in Essex and the Trafford Centre in Manchester among others.

It has appointed administrators KPMG as a "contingency" in case financial restructuring talks with lenders fail - but only has until Friday to sort out a new financial footing.

If that happens, its says, "there is a risk that centres may have to close for a period".

In Scotland, a 90-year-old woman has completed a two-month-long fundraising challenge that saw her climb a mountain - from the comfort of her own home.

Margaret Payne has climbed the equivalent of Highland mountain Suilven - 731m (2,398ft) - with trips upstairs at her Sutherland home.

Mrs Payne, from Ardvar, first climbed Suilven, in the west of Sutherland at the age of 15 in 1944.

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Her challenge started on 12 April and took almost 300 trips to complete.

Inspired by the fundraising efforts of war veteran Captain Tom Moore, she has achieved more than £347,000 for the NHS, Highland Hospice and Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).

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From 4 July, friends and families can be reunited, people can enjoy a pint at the pub or a meal in a restaurant - or even a stay-cation - as part of an easing to England's coronavirus lockdown.

The 2m social distancing rule has been changed so that if it's not possible to maintain this a "one metre plus" space will be acceptable if certain precautions are taken such as the use of face coverings.

Under the changes, two households of any size will be permitted to meet in any setting - inside or out - and can stay overnight.

People will also be able to enjoy a taste of life's bigger moments, with weddings of up to 30 people permitted in England from early July. They had been banned under almost all circumstances since lockdown began on 23 March.

After three months of binge-watching boxsets from the sofa, people craving something different will also be able to go to the cinema, with top UK cinema chain Showcase opening on 4 July and Vue, Cineworld and Picturehouse reopening on 10 July.

But the cinema experience will be different, with new safety measures such as limited numbers in each screen, socially distanced seating for those from different households and staggered start and finished times to avoid congestion in foyers.

The mega-church in Phoenix, Arizona, where President Donald Trump is due to speak later today has been criticised for claiming that its air filtration system takes "particulants" out of the air so that "Covid cannot live in that environment".

"So when you come into our auditorium, 99% of Covid is gone, killed, if it was there in the first place," Dream City Church pastor Luke Barnett said in a video posted on Twitter on Monday.

"You can know when you come here, you'll be safe and protected. Thank God for great technology and thank God for being proactive."

Numerous health experts say that although a filter will help clean the air, it does not prevent the spread of the virus on surfaces or the ongoing emission of potentially virus-contaminated respiratory droplets from attendees via coughs and sneezes.

The mayor of Phoenix has criticised the event for going ahead at all, saying the city has neither "sanctioned nor permitted" it to happen.

The 3,000 young people whom Trump will be addressing will comply with the Phoenix city ordinance passed on Friday requiring masks in crowded places, a Students for Trump spokesman told the Arizona Republic newspaper.

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EU officials are considering who to allow into the union from 1 July, and Americans may not be accepted, according to draft lists seen by the New York Times newspaper, external.

Their assessment is to be based on how travellers' countries of origin are tackling the pandemic, the newspaper reports. The lists - supplied by EU officials anonymously - are also said to include China, Russia and Brazil.

The US currently has the world's largest number of cases with more than 2.3 million reported and more than 120,000 deaths, according to figures collated by Johns Hopkins University, external.

Earlier, a top US health official, Dr Anthony Fauci, told Congress that the US response was a "mixed bag" due to the nation's diversity, and that some states were now "seeing a disturbing surge of infection".

US travellers have been banned from entering the union since mid-March when lockdowns were imposed on most of the continent.

Two more members of the Trump campaign have tested positive for coronavirus days after his rally on Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It comes after six members of his team tested positive hours before the event.

"After another round of testing for campaign staff in Tulsa, two additional members of the advance team tested positive for the coronavirus," campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said in a statement.

"These staff members attended the rally but were wearing masks during the entire event. Upon the positive tests, the campaign immediately activated established quarantine and contact tracing protocols."

Trump was criticised for holding the rally amidst the pandemic, and attendees had to sign waivers saying they accepted the risk of contracting Covid-19 at the event.

Today, Trump will be speaking at a mega-church in Arizona.

Mark Easton
Home editor

An instant online poll in the hours immediately after Prime Minister Boris Johnson's announcement on easing the lockdown in England suggests people are generally supportive of the changes.

Pollsters YouGov asked 2,200 people adults for their reaction.

On reopening pubs, restaurants, hairdressers, cinemas and other venues – 64% say they think it is a good idea, with 29% reckoning it is too soon.

There was a similar broad agreement with the plan to allow two households to meet indoors - 73% support the change with just 20% opposing the idea.

The snap survey suggests the government’s lockdown escape plans have the backing of voters, but there is still a significant minority of people who are concerned that ministers are easing the restrictions too quickly.

Just over a third of people in the poll (37%) think the changes go too far.

Just under half (47%) believe ministers have got the balance about right and just 7% say the changes don’t go far enough.

Reality Check

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Saudi Arabia won't be allowing foreign visitors to make the annual Islamic pilgrimage, or Hajj, this year because of the risk of coronavirus. So who's likely to be most affected?

People normally come from around the world to visit Mecca. But this year, the Saudi authorities say the only non-Saudi pilgrims who can take part are those normally resident in the Kingdom.

In 2019, there were a total of 2.49 million pilgrims at the Hajj out of whom 1.8 million were international visitors, according to official Saudi statistics.

And the data shows that the number of pilgrims coming from non-Arab countries in Africa and Asia has been growing in the last few years.

Each country is normally allocated a specific quota for the Hajj, based on the size of its Muslim population, with Indonesia having the largest number, followed by Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Egypt.

These countries have all seen increases in coronavirus cases during May and early June, according to Johns Hopkins University figures.

India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in particular are reporting large numbers of new cases daily.

You can read more on how coronavirus is spreading across the world here.

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President Vladimir Putin says he will increase taxes for wealthy Russian citizens as the country tackles the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

In a televised address to the nation today, Putin proposed an increase in the annual rate of income tax from 13% to 15% on earnings above five million roubles (£58,228; $72,833).

It will be the first time that Russia will have increased the rate since a flat tax rate was introduced in 2001.

The president, whose approval rating has fallen to an all-time low, said the changes would add an extra 60 billion roubles to the budget and could come into effect on 1 January 2021.

There are currently almost 600,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Russia, and 8,349 reported deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

Imogen Foulkes
BBC News, Geneva

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The Covid-19 pandemic and school closures mean that in the last three months, millions of children have spent much more time online. Now the UN's International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has issued new guidelines , externalthat it says should help to ensure that children’s internet experience is educational, fun and above all safe.

It says the guidelines offer a blueprint to specific groups, from parents to teachers to industry to children themselves to help protect children from cyber-crime and from sexual exploitation.

Children are online at an ever younger age, and parents find it increasingly challenging to supervise their access: where families once shared a household computer, now everyone has their own smartphones, tablets and laptops.

The new ITU guidelines offer information to teachers and parents on firewalls and filtering, to children on what to do if they view things online that make them uncomfortable, and to industry on incorporating children’s rights and child protection into all their company operations.

Iain Watson
Political correspondent

Boris Johnson gave the first of the daily updates on 16 March. It feels like a different era.

The prime minister had already warned that some people would lose loved ones before their time. It’s unlikely he was anticipating being in ICU himself the following month.

But now just as the nation "emerges from hibernation", government ministers are withdrawing from daily public view, although "significant announcements" will still be subject to media scrutiny.

Today, the scientists seemed absolutely determined not to go out on a high.

Sir Patrick Vallance stressed infections were not down to zero. The virus has not gone away – and most of the nation is still susceptible to it.

Chris Whitty still advised people to stay 2m apart in England, where possible, and reminded us we could be living with the virus until this time next year, so some restrictions may have to return.

And this is the political risk for the prime minister. Boris Johnson said today he takes responsibility for his decisions.

While he will get plaudits for restarting the economy, if, subsequently, he does "have to apply the handbrake and reverse" (and just imagine the screeching noise your car would make if you did that) his handling of the pandemic will come under even greater scrutiny.

Even without daily press conferences.

Reality Check

The prime minister was asked by Christine in Lincoln about coronavirus outbreaks in meat processing factories.

She wanted to know why this was happening and what was being done to protect the public from “contaminated meat”.

The government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said the environment in meat processing factories “is a difficult one” because it is cold, it is difficult to keep workers apart, it is noisy so people may have to shout and there are communal areas where people gather.

On the question of whether the meat itself could be a “vector” – or way of transmitting Covid-19 – he passed on the judgement of the Food Standards Agency that this risk is “very low”.

You can read more about the factors helping spread coronavirus in meat processing plants in the UK and in other countries here.

Continuing his testimony to congress, top US disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci says that he is “cautiously optimistic” a vaccine may be ready by the end of 2020.

He said it is a matter of “when and not if” the vaccine is ready, but added that it "might take some time".

Drug company Moderna has plans “to launch a Phase 3 clinical trial as early as July 2020, pending positive results from this Phase 2 trial,” Fauci added.

He added that it is crucially important that Americans get a flu jab this year.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield also called on Americans to "embrace flu vaccinations with confidence".

"This single act will save lives," he said.

Today marked the end of the daily government press conferences. From now on, the government says it will only hold a briefing when it has something to announce.

Today's conference was held by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, and the chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance.

Here's what they told us:

• Where it is not possible to stay 2m apart, people can stay 1m apart with added precautions, such as plastic screens, not sitting face-to-face, and wearing masks
• As planned, from 4 July, hotels, pubs, bars, cinemas and many other businesses can open, following Covid secure guidelines. A full list is here.
• From 4 July, members of two different households can meet indoors, and stay over, but (unlike those in 'support bubbles') should stay socially distant
• Overall deaths in the UK are returning to normal levels, but the disease has not disappeared and is growing in other parts of the world
• If people only pay attention to the measures that have been eased and not the restrictions, the rate of infections will increase again
• Changing lockdown and social distancing rules is not risk free and will be reversed if needed
• Prof Whitty expects the current situation, where coronavirus is circulating widely, to continue into 2021

Reality Check

It has now been a month since the government last announced how many individuals are being tested every day.

Instead, they are only releasing numbers for the number of tests delivered.

This matters, because the number of tests data includes people who may have been swabbed twice as well as tests sent in the post but not necessarily returned.

The result is that the number of tests is far higher than the number of people tested.

For example, as of 22 May – the last date we had the statistics – the numbers showed that 3.2m tests had been done or sent out, but only 2.1m people individuals had actually been tested.

The UK Statistics Authority has previously criticised the government for their use of testing statistics.

The Department of Health and Social Care has previously said that the release of the number was “temporarily paused" because of problems with double counting in the data.

Boris Johnson concludes this final daily briefing by saying the UK is improving all the time at fighting the virus.

He praises the public for their efforts and looks to the possibility of drugs being developed, with the UK "playing a lead role".

And the PM says the NHS test and trace scheme could be a "real game changer" in the fight against coronavirus.

He concludes: "Although the virus is the same and just as dangerous as it was, we are now better at dealing with it.

"This virus is still out there. The only way to beat it is to stay alert, follow the guidance and save lives".