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Dr Anthony Fauci, the US government's top infectious disease expert, is due to testify in just over an hour before a congressional committee investigating the nation's response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Dr Robert Redfield, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Dr Stephen Hahn, the head of the Food and Drug Administration, will also be testifying to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

The CDC director will warn that “Covid-19 activity will likely continue for some time,” according to a prepared statement.

“This could place a tremendous burden on the healthcare system related to bed occupancy, laboratory testing needs, personal protective equipment and healthcare worker safety,” the statement adds.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that parents in England will be able to ask friends and family to help with childcare under the changes which come into force on 4 July.

He also said "wrap-around care" for school-age children - meaning care for children before and after school - and formal childcare will "restart over the summer".

And he repeated his promise to reopen schools fully in the next academic year, saying: "Primary and secondary education will recommence in September with full attendance and those children who can already go to school should do so because it is safe."

Chris Mason
Political Correspondent

They have become a staple of late afternoons in spring and summer 2020: the government's news conferences at 5pm each weekday, and 4pm at the weekend.

A minister troops into an empty room in Downing Street, often with a scientist in tow, occasionally on their own.

A few weeks ago, the weekend ones disappeared. As we reported earlier this hour, so too will the weekday ones, after today.

Instead, we are told, they will happen when the government has something significant to announce.

The government promises it will still be publishing all of the data which has previously been included in the news conference slides.

A judge in Brazil has ordered President Jair Bolsonaro to wear a protective mask when he is in public spaces in the capital, Brasilia, and the surrounding federal district.

The far-right president has been criticised for belittling the risk posed by the coronavirus, which he dismissed as "a little cold" at the start of the pandemic.

He has also repeatedly appeared in public without a mask while greeting his supporters without socially distancing.

At one rally he was filmed coughing without covering his mouth and on another occasion he was seen sneezing into his hand and immediately afterwards shaking the hand of an elderly woman.

Federal Judge Renato Borelli said that if the president - and other public officials who are also required to abide by the rule - did not comply with the requirement to wear a mask when out in public, he would incur a fine of 2,000 reais ($387; £310) per day.

It's been confirmed that the daily Downing Street press conferences in the UK will no longer happen after today.

There will still be announcements but they will instead be timed to coincide with "significant announcements".

The No 10 briefings began on 16 March, the day when it was announced the number of people who had died with the virus reached 36.

Cable cars and ski lifts in the Alps may have ground to a halt – but this has provided an unusual opportunity for some daredevils in Switzerland.

Acrobats performed some amazing stunts on high wires of the Glacier 3000 lifts, which would normally be busy with visitors.

Among them was Swiss acrobat Freddy Nock, who balanced, blindfolded, on the carrying cable of a cable car during an event to mark the full reopening of the facilities at the weekend.

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Ramon Kathriner also performed with The Wheel of Death during the Glacier 3000 air show over the village of Les Diablerets.

The stunts were also in honour of artists around the world who’ve been affected by the pandemics, according to reports.

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Chris Mason
Political Correspondent

Am I allowed to visit people inside their houses now, as long as there aren't more than two households together at the same time?

So I could visit my mate in his house and then see my sister in hers the next day?

The answer: Yes.

What isn't allowed is multiple households meeting indoors at the same time.

Alison Roberts
Portugal correspondent, Lisbon

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Portugal's government has tightened the lockdown in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in an effort to bring a series of coronavirus outbreaks under control.

From today the limit on outdoor gatherings is back down to 10, from the national maximum of 20.

All shops must close by 20:00 and restaurants may not serve alcohol after that hour, while drinking in all other public places is banned.

The measures were approved at an online cabinet meeting last night, after a meeting between the Prime Minister António Costa and Lisbon area mayors.

The government says the outbreaks can mostly be traced to particular workplaces or crowded neighbourhoods.

But police have also been called to a number of illegal parties in recent days, some of them very large.

Fines of up to 350 euros (£318) are to be introduced from Sunday for people taking part in illegal gatherings.

As the US passes 120,000 deaths, here are some of the latest developments across the country:

• California shattered its single-day record for new coronavirus infections on Monday, with over 6,000 new cases. The previous single-day high was 4,515 new cases
• The University of Michigan is expected to withdraw from hosting a 2020 presidential debate in October due to fears that the gathering could bring the virus to the campus
• Black Americans are four times more likely to require hospital treatment for Covid-19 than white Americans, according to a new report from the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
• A rash of public health officials have quit their jobs after receiving threats and protests at their homes from citizens angered by lockdown and virus mitigation measures. According to one advocacy group, nearly 25 officials have quit amid the pandemic so far

In response to criticism over hosting the Adria Tour event, tennis star Djokovic said in a statement on his website that the competition was "meant to unite and share a message of solidarity, external".

"Everything we did in the past month, we did with a pure heart and sincere intentions.

"We organised the tournament at the moment when the virus had weakened, believing that the conditions for hosting the Tour had been met," the statement reads.

He adds that "unfortunately, this virus is still present, and it is a new reality that we are still learning to cope and live with."

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has just updated Parliament on a number of changes to England's coronavirus lockdown to come into force from 4 July.

He told MPs that the "cautious" relaxation of the guidance is "entirely conditional" on the UK's "continued defeat of the virus" and he would "not hesitate" to reapply the brakes and reintroduce restrictions - even at national level - if there is a surge in new infections.

Here is a quick roundup of the key changes:

• The 2m social distancing rule will be relaxed to "one metre plus" where 2m is not possible - but people will be encouraged to have mitigation in place to reduce transmission
• People will be able to meet one other household at a time indoors with social distancing. Meet-ups do not always have to be with the same household
• Pubs and restaurants can reopen indoors and outdoors with safety measures such as table-only service. Hotels, B&Bs, campsites, caravan parks, hairdressers, playgrounds, museums, galleries are among the businesses that can reopen
• Nightclubs, spas, indoor soft play areas, bowling alleys, indoor gyms and nail bars are among the businesses that can't reopen at this stage

You can read more here.

Reality Check

The prime minister defended the NHS test and trace system in England which, despite not having an app, he says has been “a great success”.

The system works by those who test positive for coronavirus giving a list of recent contacts to test and trace teams. They then contact those people and ask them to self-isolate so they don’t spread the virus.

In the first two weeks, 14,045 people who tested positive for coronavirus in England had their information transferred to contact tracers.

Of these, 10,192 people were reached and asked to provide details, but 3,435 – a quarter – were not reached.

In total, the trace teams were supplied with 96,746 people who coronavirus-positive people had been in contact with, of whom they reached 87,639 people.

Boris Johnson said these people had “elected voluntarily to self-isolate” but we don’t yet have the figures to say how many actually did this.

You can read more on the system here, external.

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Boris Johnson is asked about one safety measure being suggested for pubs, bars and restaurants - whether staff should take customers' contact details so they can be told if someone nearby later tests positive for the virus.

Mr Johnson said businesses should be encouraged to take the names of customers.

"I do think that is something that people get and as far as possible we want people to do that and we want businesses to comply with that," he said.

"I believe it is very, very important for our ability to track back and stop outbreaks happening."

Mr Johnson said he also wanted people "to take advantage of the freedoms that they are rightly reacquiring, but I must stress that people should act in a responsible way".

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A statement confirming that Novak Djokovic has tested positive for Covid-19 says he is "not showing any symptoms".

News of the Serbian tennis player's infection follows the recent announcements that Croatia's Borna Coric, Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria and Serbia's Viktor Troicki have all tested positive for the virus.

They had all been participating in Djokovic's Adria Tour exhibition tournament in Croatia, where lockdown measures are gradually being eased.

Djokovic has faced criticism over the event, which he hosts.

Great Britain's Andy Murray said the positive tests were a "lesson for us", while Australian Nick Kyrgios called playing a "bone-headed decision".

Images on the tournament's social media site on Friday showed Dimitrov playing basketball with Djokovic, Alexander Zverev and Marin Cilic, while also putting his arm around Coric before their match.

Troicki's wife, who is pregnant, tested positive on Friday, before he returned a positive test on Sunday.

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Boris Johnson - who has been unveiling changes to England's lockdown - has also given his opinion on one of the lockdown rules in Wales.

Each devolved nation in the UK is in charge of its own lockdown restrictions.

In Wales, one of the measures currently in place requires people to travel no more than five miles away from their home.

"I have my doubts over the five mile rule in Wales," says Mr Johnson. "I wonder whether that might be something that was reviewed."

Chris Mason
Political Correspondent

The PM's spokesman has told political reporters that the government is planning a new law making it easier for pubs, restaurants and cafes to serve people outside.

The new legislation will be introduced in parliament later this week, we are told.

Reality Check

The UK prime minister has announced that from 4 July the two metre social distancing rule is to be relaxed to "one metre plus" in England - where two metres is not possible.

People and businesses will be encouraged to have mitigation measures in place to reduce transmission.

The World Health Organization recommends keeping a distance of at least one metre and the rules vary in different countries across the world.

Countries including China, Denmark, France, Hong Kong, Lithuania and Singapore use a one metre social distancing rule, while others like Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal recommend a distance of 1.5m.

A bit more on that ban on cricket.

Mr Johnson says: "Everybody will want to add something on to the great wheelbarrow of measures that we're making and at a certain point there will come a straw that will break the camel's back.

"The ball is a natural vector of the disease... and we've been round it many times with our scientific friends. At the moment we're still working on ways of making cricket more Covid-secure.

"We can't change the guidance yet."

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Chris Mason
Political Correspondent

The prime minister's official spokesman tried to explain the rationale behind the government's decisions for England today.

There isn't yet a date when gyms can reopen for instance, because of the number of surfaces that people touch and the "much greater risk of infection" as a result of lots of people breathing harder.

There is a commitment - albeit a vague one - to get those areas of the economy that have to remain closed "within weeks if we can,” he says.

Theatres and concert halls can reopen to show recorded shows, but not live performance because of issues around socially distancing performers and the risks associated with singing.

For the same reason, religious services won't be able to include singing.

And while football is back, cricket is not - because, as the prime minister put it, "the ball is a natural vector of disease."

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There are still several sectors in England that will not be allowed to reopen on 4 July.

They are:

• Nightclubs
• Bowling alleys
• Indoor play areas eg softplay
• Spas
• Nail bars
• Tattoo parlours
• Indoor fitness and gyms
• Swimming pools
• Waterparks
• Conference centres