Some 111 guests tested positive for Covid-19 after a wedding in India's northern Bihar state. The groom also died a day after the wedding on 16 June, external, NDTV reported. However, it's not clear if he had the virus as he was not tested.

More than 350 people attended the wedding on 15 June and the groom drove approximately 1,095km (680 miles) for the event.

Authorities have been contact tracing and isolating those who attended the wedding for the past week, local media reported.

Officials have also opened an investigation into why more than 50 people attended - the maximum number of guests allowed at a wedding under the new rules in light of the virus.

Bihar has confirmed more than 9,500 cases and 60 deaths so far.

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Fergus Walsh
Medical correspondent

Stroke, delirium, anxiety, confusion, fatigue - the list goes on. If you think Covid-19 is just a respiratory disease, think again.

As each week passes, it is becoming increasingly clear that coronavirus can trigger a huge range of neurological problems.

Several people who've contacted me after comparatively mild illness have spoken of the lingering cognitive impact of the disease - problems with their memory, tiredness, staying focused.

But it's at the more severe end that there is most concern.

Read more here

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Visitors have been able to return to Tokyo Disneyland for the first time in four months.

The park, along with Tokyo DisneySea, became the last of Disney's theme parks in Asia to reopen on Wednesday.

The company says it is "proactively requesting guests" at the resort in Urayasu to follow social distancing and limiting visitor numbers.

In China, where the pandemic began, Shanghai Disneyland welcomed visitors again in May, followed by the park in Hong Kong in late June.

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Nick Triggle
Health Correspondent

It remains one of the most baffling aspects of the current approach.

Local authorities have not routinely been given information about their residents who test positive.

They are asked to chase up the so-called complex cases - where people test positive in care homes, prisons or schools - so they get that information quickly.

But they are not getting real-time information about individual residents who test positive.

• Why has Leicester had a coronavirus spike?

Local directors of public health say it has hampered their ability to look for patterns and clusters developing. In theory the national system should do this, but why not have a second pair of eyes? Especially one that knows the local situation much better?

There are signs that is beginning to change. Public Health England is setting up a system that will hopefully do this in a comprehensive and speedy manner.

But the fact it has not happened yet and the experience of those on the ground in Leicester - where cases were going up for a number of weeks - suggests local outbreaks developing in the community are not yet being spotted as quickly as they should be.

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Good morning to readers joining us from the UK - here are some of the latest headlines:

• Doctors have called for the UK government to provide local data more quickly to local authorities to help them deal with Covid-19 spikes in their areas

• The comments from the British Medical Association follow criticism about the length of time it took to get testing data to officials in Leicester - the first city to experience a local lockdown after a rise in coronavirus cases
• Ministers must set out plans for an inquiry into the UK government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the health service ombudsman has said
• Aerospace giant Airbus says it plans to cut 15,000 jobs as it deals with the effects of the pandemic - including 1,700 jobs lost in the UK and thousands more in Germany, Spain and elsewhere
• And the number of women and girls facing period poverty has risen sharply during the coronavirus lockdown, according to the charities working to help them

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The southern state of Tamil Nadu will open places of worship in rural areas. Among the worst-hit in India, the state on Tuesday announced new social distancing measures for devotees, external, reported local media.

According to the guidelines, only small temples, mosques churches and other religious places in rural areas will be open to the public starting Wednesday.

People over 65 years, pregnant women and children under 10 as well as those with any underlying health issues have been advised to stay home. Only those with no symptoms will be allowed in.

Guests must maintain six feet distance and wear a mask. They will also have to wash their hands and feet with soap before entering the premises, according to the new measures.

Officials are on high alert as clusters linked to religious places have been reported from various places across the globe, including South Korea and Germany.

Remdesivir is an anti-viral medicine that has been used against Ebola. It works by attacking an enzyme that a virus needs in order to replicate inside our cells.

It has been approved for use in Covid-19 patients by the US and the UK, among other countries.

Early data suggests it can cut recovery time by about four days, external, but there is no evidence yet that it will save more lives.

Gilead Sciences has signed agreements with drug makers in South Asia to expand supply.

The agreement between Gilead and five generic pharmaceutical companies in India and Pakistan will help make the medicine for 127 countries.

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The EU has decided that from today, its borders will be reopened to citizens from 15 non-EU countries including South Korea, Canada and Japan.

China also features on the "safe" list however it is subject to a reciprocal agreement, which is still pending.

The UK is automatically included as "safe".

The list does not feature the US, Brazil and Russia - countries that have reported high numbers of cases.

However the decision is not legally binding and states can choose not to open up to all of the countries on the list.

Read more about the countries considered safe here.

A whopping majority of infections and deaths in India happened in June - more than 400,000 cases and nearly 12,000 fatalities were reported last month, according to the Times of India newspaper.

To put that into perspective, India currently has 568,092 confirmed cases and 17,400 deaths, according to figures from the health ministry.

This means that around 70% of India's caseload happened in June. Experts had earlier warned that the country's peak would occur when the monsoon began - typically between July and August.

India eased out of its lockdown in early June even as cases were rising at an alarming rate.

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed the second phase of "unlocking India" via a televised address. He urged citizens to not be careless and continue to enforce effective measures like social distancing, saying that many were not responsible enough in the first phase.

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South Korea has started distributing stocks of remdesivir, a drug being used to treat Covid-19.

The supply has been donated by Gilead Sciences and discussions are under way to purchase supplies in August, the Korea Centers for Disease Control said.

"Patients who are eligible for remdesivir are limited to severe patients with pneumonia and in need of oxygen therapy," the disease control agency said in a statement.

Remdesivir is an anti-viral medicine that has been used against Ebola. The drug cut the duration of symptoms from 15 days down to 11 in a clinical trial at hospitals around the world.

It is unclear how many doses have been donated to South Korea by the US company.

At the end of December last year, Chinese officials reported for the first time on an outbreak of viral pneumonia in the city of Wuhan. Six months later, Covid-19 has changed the world.

Watch how it spread across the globe.

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The Australian state of Victoria has recorded another 73 infections as an outbreak grips Melbourne.

After two weeks of daily double-digit increases, the state is re-imposing a lockdown in 36 suburbs from midnight tonight (14:00 GMT Wednesday).

It will affect about 300,000 residents in the city of five million, and last for four weeks.

Speaking today, Premier Daniel Andrews said he was buoyed to see "some consistency" in the infection rate after a massive testing blitz.

But he warned a statewide lockdown was possible if people became complacent with Australia's worst outbreak in almost three months.

"To families across those lockdown suburbs, if we all work together and if we all stick together over these next four weeks we can regain control of community transmission,” he said.

Some states have banned Victorians from entry. The rest of the country continues to experience few or no cases - Australia has had about 7,700 in total and 104 deaths.

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The World Heath Organization this week warned that the pandemic was not even close to being over, but in the Czech Republic, a party has been held to give the coronavirus a "symbolic farewell".

Several thousand people celebrated on Charles Bridge in Prague on Tuesday.

Guests brought food and drinks and were encouraged to share them with their neighbours. There was no social distancing, something people in countries under lockdown will find hard to relate to.

Read more about the party here.

US President Donald Trump's administration has secured almost all the world's upcoming supply of the drug remdesivir. The drug, produced by the firm Gilead Sciences, is the first approved by authorities in the US to be used to treat Covid-19.

It has been shown to help people recover faster from the disease.

A statement from the Department of Health and Human services, external says Trump struck an "amazing" deal with Gilead for 500,000 doses which amounts to 100% of Gilead's production in July, 90% of it in August and 90% in September.

A treatment course of remdesivir is, on average, 6.25 vials.

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Hello and welcome to another day of rolling coverage of the coronavirus pandemic that continues to rage, with worrying lines coming out of the US and Latin America.

Here are the latest updates:

• The Trump administration says it has secured half a million doses of the Covid-19 drug remdesivir - that amounts to most of the upcoming global supply
• It comes as top US health expert Anthony Fauci warns that cases in the country could reach 100,000 a day
• The European Union is opening borders to people from 15 countries - but not the US
• And Australia is battling a rise in cases in Victoria that could lead to a new statewide lockdown