We're wrapping our live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic for now and will return tomorrow.

To recap, some of the main developments we've reported on are:

• Catalonia in north-eastern Spain has reported more than 1,200 new infections and France has said it's monitoring the situation across the border very closely
• Russia's ambassador to the UK has denied his country's spy agencies tried to steal British research on coronavirus vaccines
• Iran's President Rouhani has said an estimated 25 million Iranians have contracted Covid-19 and Iranians have to consider another 30-35 million may contract it
• EU leaders have spent a second day in talks on a Covid recovery fund - Austria's chancellor says it's "going well"

Today's live page was written and edited by Lauren Turner, Paul Kirby, Sophie Williams, Alex Therrien, Joseph Lee and George Wright.

Here's a round-up of the main stories of the day in the UK:

• As local councils received new powers to deal with outbreaks, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said new regulations for central government to impose local lockdowns will be published next week. It could allow them to ban anyone entering or leaving specific areas
• As Scotland's First Minister warned the public not to drop their guard, the nation saw its largest number of new positive tests for nearly a month. But health officials say the 21 new cases are not part of a cluster
• Wales has recorded no new coronavirus deaths for the fourth time in seven days
• The UK recorded 40 new Covid-19 deaths, despite concerns from Health Secretary Matt Hancock that the figures for England may include people who died months after a positive test. PHE said it will continue to publish the data while a review is carried out
• And Transport Minister Grant Shapps became the first senior politician to reveal that he is taking a summer holiday abroad this year. He said his wife had booked the trip, their first in "a couple of years" after changes to Foreign Office guidance on travel were announced

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Iran has recorded around 20,000 more deaths this spring than previous years, according to government figures.

Iran's National Organisation for Civil Registration recorded 110,384 deaths in the spring - based on the Iranian calendar year from 20 March to 20 June - the ISNA news agency reports.

The deaths recorded in the spring of the preceding three years were 93,067, 90,214 and 91,742 respectively.

Iran says just under 14,000 have died of coronavirus, but some observers think the real tally could be far higher.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has said 25 million Iranians have already been infected by coronavirus and another 35 million are at risk.

Basing his statistics on a health ministry report, he warned the country would need twice as many beds. Until now, the official number of infections was 269,440.

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Summer has arrived on Germany's Baltic coast, but with that has brought huge crowds.

This had an impact on the most popular areas in Scharbeutz and Haffkrug in the Bay of Lübeck.

The eight beaches in the area have been operating a traffic light system to keep the numbers down - and today some sections of beach and parking areas were temporarily closed because there was no longer enough free space for guests, the DPA news agency reports.

More than 9,000 people have died of coronavirus in Germany.

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Here's a summary of the top coronavirus developments from around the globe this evening.

• Spain's north-eastern region of Catalonia has seen another 1,226 cases reported in the past 24 hours. Residents in Barcelona are being urged to stay at home for the next 15 days
• UN Secretary General António Guterres has strongly criticised the world’s biggest powers for failing to work together to tackle the pandemic. The relationship between the US, China and Russia has never been so dysfunctional, he said
• US President Trump has said he will not mandate the use of masks. Speaking to Fox News, he said “I want people to have a certain freedom” - top infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci says "we should be using them, everyone"

• Indian superstar actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been taken to hospital after testing positive for Covid-19 earlier this week
• Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said 25 million Iranians have already been infected by coronavirus and warned another 35 million are at risk, citing a study by the health ministry

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England's strategy for this stage of the pandemic is to tackle outbreaks locally before they spread. One of those is a farm in Herefordshire, where seasonal workers are in self-isolation after 74 of them tested positive for the virus last week.

Further tests uncovered 19 more people were infected, but Herefordshire Council has now said there is "no indication" the outbreak had spread to the nearby community.

The council's chief executive, Alistair Neill, said health officials and council staff were scrutinising nearby areas on "an hour-by-hour, day-by-day basis".

He said there was still some way to go before the outbreak is over, but 70 workers at Rook Row Farm in Mathon had now recovered.

It's not over until it's over, but Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has given an upbeat message on the EU summit in Brussels, where the 27 member states are trying to agree a deal on a €750bn (£670bn) recovery fund of grants, subsidies and loans.

"Things are moving in the right direction," Kurz has told reporters, but he won't say whether he thinks a deal will be reached by tomorrow, or whether there'll have to be another meeting.

The tricky part of the talks is how much of the money will be handed out as grants or subsidies - and then what conditions will be attached.

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Mr Kurz, whose country is one of the so-called "frugal" states, says the money has to go towards green projects, digitisation and reforms. And then the big question is whether other countries can have final approval. A big concession has reportedly been made to the Netherlands for an "emergency brake", allowing one country to trigger a review of another country's spending plans.

These talks will go down to the wire, and quite possibly beyond.

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A "wartime state" has been declared in Urumqi, the capital of China's western Xinjiang region, after a spike in cases of coronavirus.

On Saturday, officials said 17 new cases had been recorded and strict measures on movement had been imposed.

Although the figure appears low, China has recorded very few significant outbreaks since Covid-19 emerged in the city of Wuhan late last year.

China is now not in the top 20 in terms of either infections or deaths.

Xinjiang is home to the mainly Muslim Uighur people and other Turkic minorities and is subject to intense state control.

The latest lockdown measures in Urumqi include:

• Mass screening in buildings where new cases have been detected, later expanding to the whole of Urumqi
• Visits to other households are restricted, as are large gatherings
• Residents urged not to leave the city unless absolutely necessary and must be tested if they do

Russia's ambassador to the UK Andrey Kelin has denied claims that his country's spy agencies tried to steal research on coronavirus vaccines.

In an interview for tomorrow's Andrew Marr Show on BBC One, Mr Kelin was asked if Russia had been stealing British vaccine research. “I don’t think so, and I don’t believe this story at all," he said.

On Thursday, security services in the UK, Canada and the US warned that Russian spies were "almost certainly" behind hacking attacks on organisations trying to develop a coronavirus vaccine.

Mr Kelin also said his country wants to "turn the page" with the UK, more than two years after the Salisbury poisonings, in which a deadly nerve agent put five people in hospital and killed one.

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Masks or face coverings are becoming compulsory in all sorts of indoor settings across Europe. In England, face coverings become mandatory in shops and supermarkets on 24 July.

In France, new rules are coming in on Monday, but details so far have been vague - they referred only to closed public places. Health minister Olivier Véran has now explained that wearing a mask will be required in shops, public buildings, banks and covered markets.

The full list will be detailed in a decree on Monday or Tuesday.

Neighbouring Belgium made wearing masks in shops, libraries and cinemas compulsory on 11 July. Ireland has also made it compulsory in shops and shopping centres.

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Another 10,328 coronavirus cases have been reported in Florida, as well as a further 90 deaths, according to the state health department.

It brings the overall total of cases to 337,569 and the number of deaths to 5,002.

Current hospitalisations as of Saturday morning are 9,162 - up 194 in the past 24 hours, the state agency said.

Florida is fast becoming America's latest Covid-19 epicentre, with a surge in cases being linked, in part, to younger Americans.

You can read more here about how Florida became so badly affected by Covid-19.

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Crowds have gathered for Frankfurt's Pride celebration, also known as Christopher Street Day.

People attending the event wore face masks and kept to social distancing guidelines.

Usually Frankfurt's Pride is a big affair. However the event this year is a lot smaller.

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Scotland has recorded 21 new cases of Covid-19 – its largest daily increase in since 21 June.

It comes on a day that UK-wide infections also saw their largest daily rise since 1 July, with 827 new cases.

But Scotland's national clinical director, Jason Leitch, told the BBC the "day-to-day variation" was to be expected.

He said he didn't believe the cases were part of a cluster, adding that "21 in one small town would worry me much more than 21 spread around the country - and these 21 are spread around the country".

Eight of the cases are in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area and five are in NHS Lothian.

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France is keeping a close eye on Spain as its southern neighbour experiences Covid-19 outbreaks just weeks after the border between the countries was reopened, French Prime Minister Jean Castex has said.

Spanish health officials are monitoring more than 150 outbreaks across the country. But it's the north-eastern region of Catalonia that is seeing the biggest number of infections.

Four million people in Barcelona have been asked to stay at home except for necessary trips for the next 15 days. Last weekend, residents in the district of Segrià in western Catalonia were told to stay indoors and the outbreak then spread to L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, a city just to the south-west of Barcelona.

"We are monitoring this very closely, here in particular, because it is a real issue that we also need to discuss with the Spanish authorities," Castex said in response to a question about the possible closure of borders.

The border was reopened to the public on 21 June.

More than 30,000 people have died of the coronavirus in France, while 28,420 have died in Spain.

The UK has recorded 40 new deaths in the last 24 hours and confirmed 827 new infections through Covid-19 testing.

The latest figures were published on the government's coronavirus dashboard, external despite concerns from Health Secretary Matt Hancock about the data from Public Health England.

Officials said the Department for Health and Social Care will no longer link to the dashboard on social media posts or update the figures on the department's own coronavirus webpage while it conducts a review.

PHE confirmed that it may be recording deaths from coronavirus even if people have died months after a positive test. Other UK nations only include those who died within 28 days of testing positive.

But PHE said it will continue to make the figures available and update the dashboard.

Spain's north-eastern region of Catalonia has seen another 1,226 cases of Covid-19 reported in the past 24 hours, as public health authorities try to halt the spread.

Restrictions on movement were brought back on Friday for four million people in the Barcelona area. They don't amount to a full lockdown, but residents are being urged to stay at home for the next 15 days.

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This popular tourist city on the Med has now seen cinemas, theatres and nightclubs shut, with gatherings of more than 10 people banned.

The Catalan health department says in the past 24 hours 349 cases have been reported in Barcelona itself and 894 in the whole metropolitan area - the health regions of Barcelona north and south.

Asked whether France to the north was considering close the border, Prime Minister Jean Castex said he was monitoring the situation "very closely".

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson said new regulations allowing central government to impose local lockdowns will be published next week.

He said they will allow ministers, "where justified by the evidence", to close whole industries or types of business in an area, introduce local stay-at-home orders, stop people entering or leaving specific areas, reduce the maximum gathering size, or restrict local transport.

In a series of Twitter posts, external, Mr Johnson said the strategy of "targeted, local action" is "already working".

He pointed to outbreaks contained in Weston-super-Mare and Kirklees, work to tackle rising infections in Bradford and Blackburn, and the local lockdown in Leicester, which is due to be relaxed next week.

But he said new powers given to local councils today to rapidly tackle local outbreaks "will not always be sufficient".

The prime minister acknowledged that "it may seem unjust that people just a short distance away can live their lives closer to normal", but he said "there is no point shutting down a city in one part of the country to contain an outbreak in another part of the country".

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Hundreds have defied a ban on large gatherings in Thailand to demand the resignation of the government and the dissolution of parliament.

Scuffles broke out between mainly young protesters and police in the capital Bangkok.

The Thai economy - which relies heavily on tourism and exports - is facing an unprecedented hit due to the pandemic.

This is adding to what was already rising anger towards the government of former army chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha over a wide-range of issues.

These include the harassment and disappearance of government critics, as well as amendments to the constitution that critics say almost guaranteed victory for the ruling party in elections last year.

"The government doesn't care about us, so either we come out or we lose anyway," an 18-year-old student called Sang told the AFP news agency.

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UK teacher Zane Powles said he has been "inundated with support" after he hand-delivered his final free school meal yesterday.

The assistant headteacher at Western Primary School in Grimsby has carried 7,500 meals to students since lockdown began, walking a total of 550 miles with a heavily laden rucksack.

“Walking around the estate and around neighbours, people have been in their hordes coming out and clapping, people I don’t know, who appreciate and see the effort that’s being done for our kids," he said.

The 48-year-old said the work of footballer Marcus Rashford in campaigning for free school meal vouchers during the summer holidays meant that he could now take a break.

But his idea of rest and relaxation is a 1,500-mile (2,400-km) cycling challenge around the British Isles. The trip will raise money for special needs charity FLAG as well as Meals & More, which gives children meals during school holidays.

Mr Powles said: “Our motto is ‘the school that cares’, and hopefully we’ve showed the children that we care for them in school, and we care for them when they’re not in school.”

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Greece has announced a further extension of a lockdown to its packed migrant camps as infections in the country increase.

The lockdown on camps began on 21 March and has been pushed back until 2 August "for the prevention of the dispersion of the coronavirus cases", the Migration ministry said.

There have been no reported deaths from Covid-19 in Greek migrant camps, which are currently home to more than 31,000 asylum seekers on five islands.

Meanwhile, across Greece, supermarket employees and customers must wear face masks as of Saturday.

Fines of €150 (£135) will be issued to those ignoring the rule.

With 194 coronavirus deaths, Greece has managed to avoid having any major outbreaks and reopened all its airports to international travel on 1 July, with UK flights resuming last Wednesday.

However, the average of new cases has risen to 35 per day, up from 25 earlier in the month.