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The finances of millions of people in the UK have changed since the pandemic.

Not everyone has been affected equally, though. Your age, your job, where you live, and the pre-virus state of your finances have all made a difference to how well you can cope.

While the youngest have generally been hit the hardest, since they have less in savings and need to spend more of their money on essentials, such as rent, some people have been able to save.

Figures show there's been a dramatic and sudden repayment of debts such as overdrafts and credit cards. With shops and travel not allowed, many people have been spending less - or getting refunds for cancelled events and holidays.

Read the full piece here.

Some council-owned care homes in Wales are beginning to welcome visitors again. We caught on camera the moment a grandmother was reunited with her granddaughter for the first time in months.

"If I don't see them, I'm always wondering what they're doing now," said Jean Emanuel, who celebrated her 90th birthday in Y Plas care home in Carmarthenshire during lockdown.

"We've never been ones for crying or tears, but it's just happiness," she added.

Read more from them here.

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The city of Leicester was the first in the UK to go into local lockdown, but that will be eased from 24 July. Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons some restrictions - "but not all" - would be lifted. Here's what is changing:

• Leicester, Oadby and Wigston remain subject to lockdown measures due to authorities saying case numbers are still above the national average
• Restrictions on schools and nurseries will be lifted
• The hospitality sector in Leicester will stay in lockdown, including bars and restaurants
• A new local power will be used to close shops selling non-essential items where necessary
• The ban on non-essential travel and social gatherings of more than six people will remain

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Israel is imposing weekend restrictions to limit the spread of the virus.

From 17:00 on Friday (14:00 GMT) until 05:00 on Sunday, the start of the Israeli working week, only essential shops will be allowed to open, gyms will close and restaurants will operate a takeaway or delivery service.

Hairdressers, zoos, markets and tourist sites will also shut.

Gatherings of more than 10 people in closed spaces and 20 outside will be banned.

Beaches will also close on weekends from 24 July.

The restrictions will apply for every weekend until further notice, a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the health ministry said.

It added that the decision was to “prevent a general lockdown in light of the sharp increase in the morbidity of the coronavirus”.

Daily cases of the virus have spiked this month. On Thursday, Israel confirmed a record 1,939 cases.

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We've got a few more details on the warning from security services that Russian spies are targeting organisations trying to develop a coronavirus vaccine.

UK Security Minister James Brokenshire said there was "no evidence" the hackers had succeeded in stealing any information from pharmaceutical companies.

He would not say whether the attacks had been stopped, saying only that they had been "detected" and adding: "This is an ongoing incident, which is why we have put this alert out there, why there is mitigation that has been put in place."

The government minister added that the National Cyber Security Centre is 95% certain the cyber attacks against labs were carried out by the Russian state.

Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Mr Brokenshire said the attacks were carried out "with the intent of extracting intellectual property and information".

Earlier, we reported that India had passed one million cases, making it the third country to do so. It surpassed Russia earlier this month.

In the graphic below, you can see the curve rising steeply upwards in the past two months. Cities left lockdown and jumped back into action in June, alongside the ramping up of testing across the country, which could account for part of the ascent.

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Snowdon is Wales' highest mountain - and one of the UK's top beauty spots.

But since reopening to visitors earlier this month, there have been reports of people leaving litter behind - as well as dog mess and even human excrement.

Wales' national park authority said the behaviour was "unacceptable".

"This is a emerging widespread issue not just in the mountains but also at lakeside locations, and across the national parks and visitor destinations in Wales," it said in a statement, adding that similar problems were being seen in England.

During lockdown, many public toilets have been closed, and many people have struggled without them, including people with medical conditions, older people and those with young children.

Read the full story here.

Ireland's acting chief medical officer has warned the country is in a "precarious" position and urged people to holiday at home. Ireland's public health emergency team says if the virus continues to spread there could be 150 cases a day by 10 August. In other news:

• Spain recorded its highest number of cases since early May on Thursday, with 580 new infections. Authorities in Barcelona are planning to restrict movement throughout the city to halt the spread
• Madrid's Cibeles fountain is the traditional destination for celebrating Real fans when they win La Liga. But last night it was fenced off to prevent supporters going near the water - "The goddess Cybele's saddest celebration" - in the words of El País

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• Cases are also rising again in Italy, where 230 infections were recorded in 24 hours, many of them in Lombardy and Emilia Romagna in the north. Fatalities in Italy have now surpassed 35,000
• Serbia and Montenegro have been removed from an EU list of countries seen as having the pandemic under control
• Two areas of France are causing concern in particular: Mayenne in the north-west and Nouvelle Aquitaine on the west coast where several clusters have been recorded.

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While most US states are enforcing the wearing of masks, Georgia’s Governor Brian Kemp issued an executive order late on Wednesday suspending local face-mask regulations.

The regulation stops mayors from requiring residents to wear face coverings and other personal protective equipment.

Despite the move, Kemp said he “strongly encouraged” people to wear masks.

A number of cities in the state, including Atlanta and Savannah, had introduced mask wearing policies as the number of cases continued to rise.

On Thursday, there were 3,441 new cases of the virus in Georgia, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution., external

More than 3,100 people have died in the state since the pandemic began.

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It's a big day for Captain Tom Moore today, who will be knighted by the Queen.

The 100-year-old World War Two veteran - who raised more than £30m for NHS charities - will be joined by family members for his own personal open-air ceremony at Windsor Castle later.

Ahead of the ceremony, Sir Tom said on his official Twitter account:, external "It is going to be the most special of days for me."

All other investitures due to be held in June and July were postponed - but Sir Tom has had a special exemption.

Read more on how Sir Tom captured the nation's heart here, and how the money raised will be spent.

Aparna Alluri
BBC News, Delhi

Two weeks ago, India's capital, Delhi, was scrambling to fight a pandemic that appeared to be spiralling out of control.

June had been a terrible month for the city, with record surges almost every day. Overrun labs and public hospitals added to the chaos and anxiety - as did conflicting information from the state and central governments.

By the end of the month, Delhi responded with a flurry of measures, from door-to-door health check-ups to increased testing, with the use of antigen tests, which are rapid but less reliable than the more widely used RT-PCR tests.

These efforts seem to be paying off, says K Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India and member of the national Covid-19 taskforce.

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Since large numbers of office workers are still working from home, city centres around the world are eerily quiet and nearby businesses are facing the knock-on effect.

The head of the chain Cards Galore - which has more than 60 shops, mostly in London - has written an open letter pleading for customers to come back.

"We all need customers to survive," said Rumit Shah, in an open letter. "Please help".

Mr Shah's chain employs more than 200 people. He spoke to the BBC from one of his branches in Moorgate in London's business district.

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More than 600 flights have been cancelled in Urumqi, the capital of China’s Xinjiang province after a case was confirmed there.

A 24-year-old woman tested positive on Thursday after displaying symptoms. Three of her close contacts tested positive. However, they were asymptomatic.

The cancellations at Urumqi Diwopu International Airport account for more than 80% of the day’s total.

From Friday, a number of airlines including Juneyao Airlines and Shenzhen Donghai Airlines require all passengers travelling to and from Urumqi to show a negative nucleic acid test taken within seven days.

Passengers must display a "safe to travel" health code, on an app which aims to identify potential virus carriers, the Chinese state-run Global Times says.

China Eastern Airlines has already put those restrictions in place.

Urumqi also suspended the city’s subway services on Thursday.

Mainland China confirmed 10 cases on Friday. Nine of those were imported from overseas, the country’s health authority said.

If you're just waking up in the UK, welcome to our live coverage. We'll be bringing you all the latest coronavirus headlines all day.

The warning from security services that Russian hackers have targeted researchers trying to develop a coronavirus vaccine leads many of today's newspapers.

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The United Nations is making an appeal for $10.3bn (£8bn) to help fight the virus - its largest ever fund-raising call.

The money will be used for low-income and fragile countries. The UN says failure to act could undo decades of development.

It also says up to 256 million people could face starvation by the end of the year due to Covid-19.

Find out more about the situation in some of these countries here.

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One of the top stories in the UK today is the government's promise of more funding for the NHS in England.

At a speech later on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will pledge an extra £3bn of money for the health service to prepare for a potential second wave of the virus this winter.

It comes after scientists warned a second wave this winter could see around 120,000 Covid-19 deaths in UK hospitals.

Also at today's press conference, the PM is expected to commit to a new target for testing capacity.

Read more on the story here.

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British Airways has said it will retire all of its Boeing 747s as it suffers from the sharp travel downturn.

Airlines across the world have been hit hard by coronavirus-related travel restrictions.

"It is with great sadness that we can confirm we are proposing to retire our entire 747 fleet with immediate effect," a BA spokesman told the BBC.

The UK airline is the world's largest operator of the jumbo jets, with 31 in the fleet.

"It is unlikely our magnificent 'queen of the skies' will ever operate commercial services for British Airways again due to the downturn in travel caused by the Covid-19 global pandemic," the spokesman added.

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From star-gazing to Nintendo workouts - people facing lockdown again share what's keeping them sane.

For software engineer Nuria Pino in Lleida, Spain, the re-imposition of local lockdowns has had profound psychological impact, while Sally Gatenby, a 39-year-old marketing consultant in Melbourne, Australia, says "it feels like you've returned to a very mediocre holiday destination".

Kai Wei, 29, in China's capital Beijing, says she now has to "report my itinerary in an app", but Rohit Shroff, a 24-year-old entrepreneur in Chennai, India, describes the second lockdown as "relaxing".

Read their full stories here

with 428 new infections confirmed today (all except five of which are in the city). This follows the 317 reported Thursday, and around 200 per day for a week before that for the entire state of Victoria.

Officials described the number as "disappointing", and urged residents to abide by lockdown rules. Police have issued hundreds of fines to people visiting other households and lingering outside.

"We have not turned the corner here," said chief health officer Dr Brett Sutton. He added that the next few days would be crucial to see if lockdown is working.

The rest of Australia closed its borders to Victoria to stop the virus' spread. However, around 40 cases have emerged in Sydney, in the neighbouring state where concern is growing. Officials are urgently tracking a cluster of cases centred around a pub visited by a Melbourne man.

Three more people have also died - taking Australia's death toll to 116.

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The Chinese capital of Beijing has recorded no new cases for an 11th consecutive day, around a month after a new outbreak emerged in the city- linked to one of its biggest markets.

The outbreak, which eventually went on to infect more than 250 people, prompted a partial lockdown. But the chief epidemiologist from China’s CDC has now said Beijing’s outbreak has been “basically reined in”., external

Overall China reported 10 new cases on Friday - nine of which were imported.