There's a local lockdown in place in Leicester at the moment.

And now, textile factories in the city have come under the spotlight, with the government saying it is "concerned" about working conditions.

Some employees told the BBC they had worked throughout lockdown for less than the minimum wage, in conditions where it was "impossible" to say safe, they said.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is "very worried about the employment practices in some factories".

Authorities don't believe the number of coronavirus cases in Leicester can be blamed on a single cause, with the majority of the area's 1,500 factories taking the necessary precautions.

But Public Health England say the living and working conditions in the east of the city are likely to have contributed to the high number of cases there.

Read more here.

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Tom Hanks, who recovered from Covid-19 earlier this year, has said he "has no respect" for people who decline to wear a mask in public during the pandemic.

The actor and his wife Rita Wilson tested positive for coronavirus while filming in Australia in March.

Many governments now recommend face coverings, but they are not mandatory in most places.

Hanks said: "I don't get it, I simply do not get it, it is literally the least you can do."

Read the full story here.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been answering questions in Parliament about his economic plans as part of the government's Covid-19 recovery strategy.

Labour's Anna McMorrin says the government's £3bn plan to cut emissions "just does not cut it" in comparison to investment from other countries.

Mr Sunak responded by saying spending promises in other countries were over many years.

He added: "We wholeheartedly believe in a green revolution and will provide the capital to make that happen."

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Later on Tuesday we're expecting to get the results from the latest coronavirus test taken by the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, after he developed a high temperature.

Mr Bolsonaro has downplayed the risks posed by the virus even though Brazil is the country with the second-highest number of cases and deaths worldwide.

He has said that after surviving a stabbing while on the campaign trail in 2018, he will "not be brought down by a little flu".

On Monday, he vetoed a bill which would have made the wearing of face masks mandatory in Brazil's overcrowded prisons.

Peru's president, meanwhile, has struck a very different tone, warning citizens in the second-worst affected country in Latin America that "the virus is still with us; if we get too confident and drop our guard, there could be a resurgence". Peru is slowly reopening after months of lockdown.

The top coronavirus official in Mexico has predicted that the pandemic there could last into April with a second peak in October. Hugo López-Gatell also told Radio Formula that Mexico's death toll was likely to be higher than the reported figure of 31,119.

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The owner of UK newspapers the Daily Mirror and the Daily Express is to cut 12% of its workforce as it struggles with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

It is the latest in a long line of companies to have made cuts during the outbreak.

Reach, which also owns the Daily Star, OK! Magazine and a stable of regional newspapers, said about 550 people would lose their jobs.

The group's sales were falling even before the pandemic but it was also becoming more profitable as it cut costs and attracted more online readers.

That process now appears to be at risk as advertisers have reined in their spending during the pandemic.

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We're expecting to hear from Chancellor Rishi Sunak shortly. He's going to be addressing the House of Commons about his £3bn plan to cut carbon emissions in the UK.

He's expected to announce a £2bn grant scheme in England for projects like insulation as part of these plans.

Stay tuned and we will bring you the latest from Westminster.

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Let's take a look at the US now, where cases are continuing to rise across the country:

• A number of states have put their reopening plans on hold as they struggle to contain growing outbreaks of Covid-19
• The greater Miami area in Florida is the latest place to delay reopening plans and reimpose restrictions. It suspended indoor-dining at restaurants and closed gyms on Monday
• California, Texas and Florida are among more than two dozen states that have reported high infection rates in recent days. In California, the number of people admitted to hospital with coronavirus increased by 50% over the past two weeks. Texas reported a similar rise and officials said hospital beds were full in some areas

• "It's a serious situation that we have to address immediately," the nation's top infectious disease specialist, Dr Anthony Fauci, said on Monday. "We're surging back up," he said
• Meanwhile, colleges and universities have altered their reopening plans. Harvard University said all autumn semester classes would be taught online and other institutions have followed suit
• There have now been more than 2.9m confirmed cases of the virus in the US, with more than 130,000 deaths

Padraig Belton
Technology of Business reporter

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"Many of us spend most of our waking lives in offices and typically they're horrible," says Maciej Markowski, chief executive of spaceOS, a start-up based in Warsaw.

Before coronavirus, offices were "a mix of noise, distraction and an endless search for a free meeting room," he says.

Mr Markowski thinks that if building owners want to keep their tenants happy, then they need to be looking at different kinds of data.

"The craziest thing is: corporate real estate is really data focused, you have tremendous information on occupancy, electricity and water usage," he says.

However, that "doesn't give you a single clue what to do to keep a tenant, no idea what these people do in the building, what they like and dislike, any tools to keep them".

With millions of people working from home since the coronavirus pandemic, office owners will have to work harder to tempt them back.

Read more from Padraig here.

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At least three pubs in England have announced they have had to shut their doors again after customers tested positive for coronavirus.

They were among hundreds of venues that reopened at the weekend after three months as lockdown measures were eased.

The Lighthouse Kitchen and Carvery in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, said it was "slowly" working through a list of customers, external who had left details at the weekend and staff were awaiting their own test results.

In Batley, West Yorkshire, the Fox and Hounds said a customer had phoned to say they had tested positive., external

Meanwhile the landlord of the Village Home Pub in Alverstoke, Hampshire, said his team were awaiting test results after someone in a member of staff's "family bubble" tested positive.

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A German court has ended a lockdown imposed to tackle a coronavirus outbreak at a meat packing facility.

Officials in North Rhine-Westphalia brought back restrictions around Gütersloh in June after more than 1,500 Tönnies plant workers tested positive.

The lockdown was due to end on Wednesday, although there was an option to extend it once more.

But the state's Higher Administrative Court overturned the measures on Monday, calling them disproportionate.

While bringing in a lockdown at the start of the outbreak was "not unreasonable", a court statement said, that should have given authorities time to impose a more focused lockdown.

Read the full story here.

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Three-quarters of people - 78% - report no symptoms by the time they test positive for coronavirus, according to data released today by the UK's Office for National Statistics, external.

The data, based on tests of people selected at random in homes in England, has looked at people who have tested positive at any time during the ONS infection study (0.32% of 36,000 people).

Read more here: Majority testing positive have no symptoms

The ONS has also released its weekly update of the number of deaths in the UK which showed for the second week in a row the deaths have been below the five-year average.

There were a total of 10,267 deaths registered in the week to 26 June, 295 fewer than the five-year average.

Of those deaths registered in that week, 651 mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate - still just above the 607 registered in the week that lockdown was announced on 23 March.

Kelly Smith was diagnosed with bowel cancer more than three years ago.

Thousands of cancer patients had their treatment halted or delayed as coronavirus spread in the UK, and she was one of them.

Her friend, Deborah James is a fellow bowel cancer patient who has been investigating cancer care during the pandemic for BBC Panorama and the BBC 5 Live podcast You, Me and The Big C.

She tells Kelly's story.

Watch more on Britain's Cancer Crisis on the BBC iPlayer.

Frances Mao
Sydney

Two weeks ago, as the cases started to creep up again, some of the fear and unease returned for residents in Melbourne.

Out of caution, people began cancelling interstate trips. Better to wait it out, said my friends who were due to visit.

Surely it wouldn’t get so bad again, right? Australia as a whole had been out of lockdown for over a month.

We were so close to eradication - everyone could see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Desperate to maintain that status, officials were also responding quickly to the outbreaks: locking down suburbs, sending in the military, boosting testing.

But for the first time in Australia, community transmission appears to have gained a hold. The case numbers exploded past 100 at the weekend. Then today, nearly 200 new cases were confirmed.

The announcement didn’t come until afternoon but by then most Melbourne residents knew. Sliding back into lockdown - after having tasted freedom for a few weeks - is a cruel blow.

Friends are now scrambling to do their last family visits and shopping trips.

A second lockdown, arguably, is even more taxing - mentally and financially.

What makes it worse is the city will have to bear it alone. The rest of the country has largely eradicated or slowed the virus.

Maddy Savage
BBC News, Stockholm

New regulations requiring pubs, bars and restaurants to ensure there’s at least a metre between separate groups of customers have come into force in Sweden.

Earlier official regulations from the Swedish Public Health agency did not state a specific measurement, although venues were asked to encourage social distancing and avoid overcrowding. Other regulations introduced in March remain in place, including offering table service only and providing hand-washing facilities.

Sweden's authorities have been criticised for giving inconsistent advice on social distancing. Some venues are already following separate advice from public healthcare information service 1177, which has run a “two-metre rule” campaign, while others have been accused of not doing enough to keep customers apart.

From Tuesday, local authorities now have the right to close venues that don’t stick to the new one-metre guidelines.

Previously, environmental health inspectors had been carrying out checks in major cities. They asked around 40 venues to shut down temporarily due to concerns about overcrowding and other risks for the spread of infection.

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As we've been reporting, the Australian city of Melbourne is reimposing restrictions because of a recent spike in cases.

Here's a look at what's happening in the state of Victoria, where 191 new infections have been recorded over the past 24 hours.

Five million people in and around Melbourne - the country's second biggest city - have been ordered back into lockdown for the next six weeks.

They will be restricted to their homes and can only leave for essential reasons, such as for work and for exercise. Schools will largely return to distance learning and restaurants will, once again, only be permitted to serve takeaway food.

The measures will come into force from Wednesday.

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“We are on the cusp of something very, very bad if we don’t take these steps," Victoria's State Premier Daniel Andrews said earlier today.

"I think a sense of complacency has crept into us as we let our frustrations get the better of us."

The state had been easing restrictions before the surge in the past fortnight. It now has hundreds of active cases, while other Australian states and territories continue to report only small numbers of new infections.

The spike has prompted the neighbouring state of New South Wales to announce that it will close its border with Victoria later today to help prevent the spread of the virus.

The Duchess of Cornwall says she "can't wait to hug her grandchildren" after only seeing them on internet calls and at a social distance since the start of lockdown in the UK.

Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live's Emma Barnett, Camilla said missing her grandchildren was "the worst" and she had needed to resist her instinct to give them a hug when she saw them for the first time in more than three months.

She also talked about her husband Prince Charles' recovery from Covid-19, saying he has "nearly" recovered his loss of taste and smell.

The duchess, who is guest-editing Emma's show from 10:00 BST today, also discussed her concerns about the scale of domestic abuse in the UK during lockdown.

Read more on whether coronavirus is changing the royals.

Tara McKelvey
BBC News

As a public-health director in Savannah, Georgia, Cristina Pasa Gibson spent her time in an office filled with calorie counters and yoga mats and the scent of jasmine tea. Then she started working on contact tracing and her office and her life were turned upside down. "I felt like I was in a Vegas casino," she says. "I didn't know what time it was, what day it was, who I was."

She and her colleagues in Savannah and her counterparts in other cities across the country have been working frantically to trace the path of the infection and to find those who may have been exposed to the virus. They talk to patients, asking for names of individuals they have spent time with, and chase down those individuals and to tell them to remain isolated so they do not infect others.

The pressure on investigators and contact tracers has been intense. "I basically lived in my office," says Gibson, describing the early days. "It was Groundhog Day over and over."

Today their role is even more important. The US now has the highest number of cases and deaths in the world.

Read more here.

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Coronavirus cases in South Africa have passed the 200,000 mark.

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said four provinces were at risk of a surge - adding that a lockdown for those provinces was a possibility.

The affected provinces are Gauteng, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.

Cases in the country are rising with thousands of new cases being reported daily.

The ministry of health however says a bigger surge could have been experienced if the country had not gone into lockdown.

South Africa is in the process of easing its restrictions in phases with the latest being the reopening of schools for more students this week.

The country is involved in the human trials for a Covid-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University.

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Former UK chancellor Philip Hammond says his successor must be prepared to let some businesses fail.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is due to announce fiscal measures designed to aid the UK's economic recovery as it deals with the coronavirus crisis on Wednesday.

Mr Hammond told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "He'll want to continue to support businesses and people who are affected by regulatory shutdown in what are otherwise viable businesses.

"But he will also sadly need to facilitate a transition for those businesses and people who are, what they are doing is no longer viable. Some businesses will close."

Can Rishi Sunak save your job? The BBC has looked at five things he may do in his summer statement.

Pallab Ghosh
Science correspondent, BBC News

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The president of Britain’s national academy of science, the Royal Society, has said people should wear a face covering "whenever you are in crowded public spaces" in order to tackle Covid-19.

Prof Sir Venky Ramakrishnan’s call comes as a new review of evidence reinforces the benefits of face coverings and even suggests they may protect the wearer as well as those around them.

There are mixed feelings among the experts on the government’s scientific advisory group about the use of masks. Some point to evidence that indicates that masks don’t seem to slow the spread of flu when worn in Asian countries. There’s also concern they might give some a false sense of security, and they may end up putting themselves more at risk.

But there is a consensus that they may reduce the risk of an infected person passing the virus on to somebody else.

But, backed by evidence from his own expert committees, the president of the Royal Society goes further. He says masks could protect the wearer from infection, adding that every tool should be used to prevent a second wave.

“We need everyone to start wearing face coverings, particularly indoors in enclosed public spaces where physical distancing is often not possible.

He adds that the UK is way behind many countries in terms of wearing masks and having clear policies and guidelines for the public about how they should be worn.

“You only need to go on public transport, where they are supposed to be mandatory, to see how many people are ignoring this new rule based on the growing body of evidence that wearing a mask will help protect others – and might even protect you.

“Wearing a mask did not bother our Italian, French or Spanish neighbours, none of whom were used to wearing one before the pandemic yet now do so routinely.

“So just treat it as another item of clothing that is part of the new normal and wear it whenever you cannot socially distance safely. It is the right thing to do, and a small price to pay, to help keep infections down and the economy open in the pandemic.”

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