As part of the tightening of coronavirus restrictions in Leicester, people have been advised to avoid all but essential travel to, from, and within Leicester - and to "stay at home as much as you can".

The government is recommending against travel “but we are not putting that in place in law at this stage”, said Health Secretary Matt Hancock.

Leicester Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby said he “very much hoped” people in the city would follow the guidelines.

He told BBC Breakfast: "It would be very difficult to draw a clear boundary around a city like Leicester where the administrative boundary is pretty much invisible."

He added that people needed to take the new restrictions "very seriously" and that "by abiding by them, we’ll come out of the end of this much more quickly than would otherwise be the case”.

Read more about the new rules.

British junior doctor Molly Dineen graduated early so she could help work on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic.

Molly was among hundreds of Interim Foundation Doctors who joined the NHS early, in a bid to relieve pressure on more experienced doctors tackling the pandemic.

The 24-year-old from Winchester, Hampshire, has been keeping a video diary.

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Dr Deborah Birx, head of the White House coronavirus task force, has called on local authorities to expand testing as America continues to grapple with the largest outbreak in the world.

In a call with the country's governors on Monday, Dr Birx identified the states of Texas and Arizona as "signficant hotspots," and said the task force wanted to help "deploy some new testing techniques…to really test large populations at the community level," according to CBS News.

"Although our mortality continues to decline week over week, we believe this week it will stabilize, with the potential of going back up if we don't intervene comprehensively now," she added.

More than 2.5m infections have been confirmed throughout the country, and - in a new development - many new cases involve people aged under 40.

During the call Dr Anthony Fauci, America's top infectious disease expert, said young people needed to understand they had a role to play in helping to contain the spread.

"We don't want to go back to shutdown," he added. "We want to let the public health process be the vehicle to opening up, not the obstacle to opening up."

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The big question in Leicester is: Where does the geography of the lockdown start and end?

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Monday night that exact details of which parts of Leicestershire are included in the new lockdown measures will be published "imminently".

He said the measures would apply not just to the city of Leicester but also the surrounding areas including, for example, Oadby, Birstall and Glenfield.

Leicestershire County Council said it was working on the details of this with Public Health England.

BBC reporter Rob Sissons says he understands the government was "refining the map last night" and it would be "designed to extensively cover the area where there's been a surge".

Leicestershire MP Alberto Costa said the delay on the clarification of restrictions was "frustrating", external.

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Canadian entertainment firm Cirque du Soleil is to cut 3,500 jobs after striking a deal to avoid bankruptcy.

The group, best known for its flamboyant touring circuses, said the coronavirus pandemic had forced it to cancel shows and lay off its artists.

The company will now try to restructure while shedding about 95% of its staff. It already had to pause production of all of its shows, including six in Las Vegas, back in March.

"With zero revenue since the forced closure of all of our shows due to Covid-19, the management had to act decisively," said boss Daniel Lamarre.

Read more here.

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the government will change the law in order to enforce the local coronavirus lockdown in Leicester.

It is the first UK city to have stricter lockdown measures reimposed which will see non-essential shops shut and schools closed for most of the pupils in the city.

Hancock told BBC Breakfast that officials were trying to understand why the outbreak had been so bad in the city, adding: “We really do have a very Leicester-specific outbreak and that’s why I have taken the action I have”.

Asked why the government's response had taken so long after Mr Hancock first mentioned the outbreak 11 days ago, the health secretary said they had tried to put in place targeted measures, such as extra testing and going into the affected workplaces.

"These sorts of much more targeted measures have worked in other outbreaks."

He added: “Unfortunately that targeted action wasn’t working in Leicester and that’s why we’ve taken these much broader measures.”

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Beaches in Los Angeles County will be closed over America's Independence Day weekend in an effort to prevent crowding, local authorities have said.

All public beaches, piers, car parks, bike paths and beach access points will be shut off in America's largest county from midnight on 3 July til 05:00 on 6 July local time.

It comes after more than 2,900 cases were reported there on Monday - the county's biggest single-day rise since the pandemic began.

"Data show increases in people testing positive for the virus and increases in hospitalizations as a result," the county's health department said. It also estimated that there would be a "marked increase in hospitalisations in the coming weeks, which could cause a surge in our healthcare system".

State-wide, California is reporting a surge of coronavirus cases in the last two weeks. New infection numbers hit a record high of 7,149 on 24 June, and over 216,000 have been confirmed in total - making it one of the worst-hit states in the US, behind only New York.

There is a surge of cases across many US states, forcing a reversal of moves to lift lockdown restrictions.

The front pages in the UK focus on the tightening of coronavirus restrictions in Leicester and the PM's plans to kick-start the UK economy.

Many papers speculate about what has driven the surge in Leicester, with the Daily Mirror, external sources citing the reopening of the city's textile industry in late April.

The Times, external highlights the city's ethnic diversity, with several generations often living together under one roof.

Boris Johnson will attempt to wrap himself in the mantle of one of America's most revered presidents, according to the Guardian, external, when he sets out an economic recovery plan for Britain later.

The Daily Express, external says the prime minister will promise to "bounce forward" with an "infrastructure revolution" - evoking Franklin D Roosevelt, who led the US out of the Great Depression in the 1930s.

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BBC News, Sydney

The state of Victoria is reintroducing lockdown for 10 postcode areas around Melbourne after a spike in cases of Covid-19. The restrictions come in from 23:59 local time on Wednesday and will last for four weeks.

People living in those areas will have to stay at home unless going to work, school, caregiving or essential shopping.

Victoria reported another 64 cases in the past 24 hours after a ramping up of testing. And while these numbers may seem tiny compared to in some parts of the world, the state premier Daniel Andrews said it was "unacceptably high".

"If we don’t do this now, I won’t be locking down 10 postcodes, I’ll be locking down all postcodes. We need every Victorian family to follow the rules."

Mr Andrews said genomic sequencing had revealed that a significant number of the state’s fresh cases could traced back to staff working in quarantine hotels who breached health protocols. A former judge will be brought in to investigate what has happened.

He has asked that Melbourne gets no international flights for the next two weeks - conceding there has been "failure" in the hotel quarantine operation with an "infection control breakdown".

Laura Kuenssberg
Political editor

UK ministers have been clear for some weeks that the possibility of "local lockdowns" was very real.

And the announcement from the health secretary on Monday evening was not just to put the brakes on easing of elements of the lockdown, he has also reversed some of changes that have already been made: closing non-essential shops again, and schools.

It is not a small ask of the people of Leicester, a major city, to watch the rest of the country progress, while they have to go into reverse for now, to protect everyone's health.

But this kind of on, and off, measure may become a regular feature of how the government tries to manage the infection as the months pass.

Read Laura's full analysis.

In Scotland, more than 1,700 school cleaners, janitors and support staff have written to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon saying they don't feel safe at work and are being put at risk every day.

This letter will be given to the Scottish Parliament, signed by staff who call themselves "the workforce that seems to have been forgotten".

"We have continued to look after the children of other key workers and vulnerable children, have continued to feed them and provide personal care, cleaned up after them and made sure their environment is nurturing and safety," the letter says. "We have done this with love and with little regard for our own health and safety."

The letter says staff must be given the right PPE [Personal Protection Equipment], better pay and that guidelines must be more robust.

Read more: School cleaners, janitors and support staff 'do not feel safe'

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Hello and thanks for following our live coverage of the global pandemic. If you're just joining us, here are some of the biggest recent developments:

• More than 10.3m cases of coronavirus have now been confirmed worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US. The number of those who have died after contracting the virus has also climbed to over half a million.
• The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged governments to take appropriate steps to contain the virus, warning that the pandemic is speeding up and "the worst is yet to come"

• The US continues to be the hardest-hit, with 2.5m infections and 126,000 virus-related deaths. In response, several states are backtracking on the easing of their lockdowns
• Human trials of a new vaccine will be taking place in India next month. Hyderabad-based firm Bharat Biotech says tests in animals suggest the vaccine is safe and triggers an effective immune response
• Stricter lockdown measures have been announced in Leicester here in the UK because of a rise in coronavirus cases in the city. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said non-essential shops will shut on Tuesday, and schools will close for most pupils on Thursday.

Hundreds of heath and care workers in the UK have lost their lives to Covid-19. Now a heartfelt project by the London Symphony Chorus is paying tribute to them.

The song, Never to Forget, has been written by the distinguished composer Howard Goodall.

A 52-year-old man has died in the southern Indian city of Bangalore after going to 18 hospitals and calling up 32 more looking for treatment.

The man had complained of breathlessness and was running a high temperature over the weekend.

After nearly 36 hours of visiting and calling up hospitals and pleading with them to admit him, one hospital finally agreed. But before they could take him in for treatment, he died "at the doorstep of the hospital," the man's nephew told the Times of India newspaper, external.

Even though he was tested, his family are still waiting for the results.

"We don't know whether our uncle was infected with Covid-19 or if we lost him to an atmosphere of fear created by the virus," the nephew said.

Bangalore has been in the news recently as cases have started to climb. A big, metropolitan city, it had managed to avoid the surge of infections being seen in other cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai. But this might be changing as it added nearly 1,000 new infections over the weekend.

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Leicester has become the first place in the UK to have tighter lockdown measures reimposed because of a rise in coronavirus cases in the city.

Non-essential shops are to close from today and schools will be closed to most pupils from Thursday.

The reopening of pubs, restaurants and hairdressers - due to take effect across the rest of England from Saturday - will not happen in the city and in surrounding areas.

Leicester City Council said the new "stricter lockdown restrictions" would be in place for "at least two weeks".

Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg says the move is "a reminder that the risk to our health from the coronavirus crisis is neither gone, nor forgotten". Read her full analysis here.

Volunteers in India will be immunised with a new locally made coronavirus vaccine in July.

An unspecified number of people will have the vaccine, as part of a trial by Hyderabad-based firm Bharat Biotech.

Tests in animals suggest the vaccine is safe and triggers an effective immune response.

The trials are among many across the world - there are around 120 vaccine programmes under way. Half a dozen Indian firms are developing vaccines.

This is the first India-made vaccine and developed from a strain of the virus that was isolated locally and weakened under laboratory conditions.

• Click here to read more

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As the coronavirus spreads in Afghanistan, the cracks in the country's healthcare system - already weakened by decades of war - are starting to show, the BBC's Secunder Kermani reports.

Concerns have been raised about the supply of oxygen and other resources to government hospitals. One doctor in Kabul described patients' families having to "fight for oxygen" when cylinders arrived, before bringing it to the intensive care unit themselves.

Another doctor told the BBC even staff members at his private hospital were unable to get their own family members treated.

"A doctor rang and said, 'One of my relatives is having breathing problems, we are sending him to you, please admit him.' I asked him for forgiveness… We couldn't look after his relative, so think what happens to ordinary people who come here?"

Read more from Secunder here: Coronavirus overwhelms Afghanistan’s war-ravaged hospitals

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The UK PM Boris Johnson is expected to announce plans to "bring forward" £5bn ($6.1bn) of spending on infrastructure to boost the economy.

Johnson will be in the West Midlands on Tuesday where his team have said he'll say he wants to use the coronavirus crisis "to tackle this country's great unresolved challenges".

The prime minister's speech comes as BBC analysis found that the UK was the hardest hit of all the G7 major industrialised nations by the virus in the weeks leading up to early June.

In April, the UK economy shrunk by a record 20.4% as a result of the spread of coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown measures.

You can read more about the government's plans here and we'll bring you analysis and reaction through the day.

More on those lockdowns coming back in around the world.

India has officially entered the second part of its "unlocking" phase but two states on Monday announced that they were locking down again.

Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra have become the latest to go back into lockdown mode as the entire country battles against rising infections. The two states will be in lockdown until 31 July, officials said.

A few other states like West Bengal, Jharkhand, Nagaland and Assam have already announced lockdown measures.

States across India have been on high alert as cases appear to be growing at an alarming rate. According to local media, the country added around 100,000 new infections in just the past week, external. Daily infection spikes have been on the rise too - with nearly every other day's count a new record.

More than 18,000 fresh cases were reported in the last 24 hours in India, taking the total tally to over 565,000 including 16,893 deaths.

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South Australia and Queensland have cancelled plans to open their state borders to all Australians as an outbreak in Victoria gathers pace.

Victoria has recorded double-digit increases in infections each day for two weeks, including 64 in the past 24 hours.

The cases - concentrated in several areas of Melbourne - have become Australia's biggest concern in almost three months.

Fears are growing that the outbreak could spread to other states, all of which have far fewer or no infections.

In announcements today, South Australia cancelled plans to fully reopen its borders on 20 July, while Queensland said it would open on 10 July but not to Victorians.

Though her state remains open, New South Wales Gladys Berejiklian told locals today: "Do not allow anyone from a hotspot in Melbourne or from greater Melbourne to come into your home - you have the right to say no."

Australia has had more than 7,500 cases in total and 104 deaths.