If you missed him earlier, you can now watch Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove calling on people to work from home again "if you can".

In the interview on BBC Breakfast, Mr Gove said the message had changed since July when Prime Minister Boris Johnson encouraged people to go back to work but denied it was an about-turn.

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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is making his keynote speech at his party conference in Doncaster, albeit virtually rather than to an audience of hundreds.

Ahead of the PM's announcement later on new measures to stem the rise in coronavirus cases, he said there "should be nothing inevitable about a second lockdown".

It would have an "immense toll" on people's physical and mental health - and the economy, he said.

He accused the government of having "lost control", saying the testing system had collapsed "just when we need it most" and the failure to protect care homes was a "scandal".

He added that such incompetence angered him when he thought about all those who had made sacrifices during the pandemic - the families who stayed apart, grandparents unable to hold grandchildren and people unable to say a final goodbye to loved ones.

He also turned on the prime minister, saying he was "not serious" nor "up to the job" and his only response was to "wish away" problems or to "lash out".

Chris Mason
Political Correspondent

This morning’s cabinet meeting has finished.

Boris Johnson has returned from the big room in the Foreign Office currently being used for cabinet meetings, and is back in 10 Downing Street.

As the prime minister returned, he was met by Prof Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance, the scientists whose doom-laden projections yesterday set the stage for today’s announcements.

All three men will now join the emergency Cobra meeting due to start shortly, which will include the leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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Spain has seen 31,428 new infections since Friday and health officials have made clear it is in the middle of a second wave of Covid-19. Worst affected is the capital Madrid, where some 850,000 people can no longer leave their local areas. Now Health Minister Salvador Illa says all Madrileños should "restrict to the maximum" their movement to stop further infection. Mayor José Luis Martínez Almeida agrees - "unless it's essential".

A preliminary study in Norway by the public health institute says nine out of 10 people who died in the first three months of the country's pandemic were also suffering from chronic illnesses. Norway was not as badly hit as other European countries, with 236 Covid-related deaths from March until May, and no excess mortality was recorded.

Travellers from seven areas of France will have to provide a negative Covid test before entering Italy, because of the sharp increase in infection. The capital's Ile-de-France region as well as the far south are among the areas affected.

Russia has recorded its highest number of daily infections since July - 6,215 new cases have been reported and another 160 deaths, bringing the total to 19,469. Moscow is the worst-hit city.

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Film production is set to increase after Hollywood unions and major film studios announced a deal on safety measures. The challenge of keeping safe on set as well as local restrictions halted filming in Los Angeles in March.

Testing, equipment and sick pay were all sticking points in months-long talks with the industry's powerful unions while films and TV series were approved on a case-by-case basis only.

The new measures include regular virus testing, including more frequent testing for actors unable to wear protective equipment while filming and those in close contact with them, according to AFP news agency.

"I'm confident that these protocols, as rigid and thoughtful as those of any industry in America, will keep crew and cast safe as well as the communities they live and work in," Thomas O'Donnell, director of Hollywood's teamsters union, said in a statement to AFP.

Filming resumed in Los Angeles in mid-June but activity remains at below half its usual levels, FilmLA says.

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Michael Gove has also confirmed this morning that plans for fans to return to stadiums to watch live sport in England from 1 October will be "paused".

The plans were placed under review earlier this month after a rise in coronavirus cases, with pilot events restricted to 1,000 people.

"We were looking at a staged programme of more people returning - it wasn't going to be the case that we were going to have stadiums thronged with fans," the Cabinet Office minister said.

"We're looking at how we can, for the moment, pause that programme, but what we do want to do is to make sure that, as and when circumstances allow, we get more people back.

"The virus is less likely to spread outdoors than indoors but again it's in the nature of major sporting events that there's a lot of mingling."

Chris Mason
Political Correspondent

After the grim, doom-laden projections of the government’s scientists yesterday, today we get the response from our leaders.

If closing the pubs early and asking you to work from home if you can sounds to you like a limited response to what the scientists said, that’s because the government is trying to get the balance right.

Some ministers wanted to go further and faster, others did not.

What we get later will illustrate the central dilemma for the country and its governments: calibrating a sufficient response to a still dangerous virus — while protecting liberties and minimising economic havoc.

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The Czech Republic finds itself "in a very difficult situation again" Prime Minister Andrej Babis told the nation in a special address on Monday night, adding "the epidemic is back".

The country is now ranked second worst in the EU in terms of daily growth in cases, Interior Minister Jan Hamacek said.

The country had managed to avoid the worst of the pandemic by swiftly imposing a lockdown in the spring - thousands of Czechs even attended a "farewell party" for the pandemic in central Prague in July.

But a further 1,476 infections were confirmed on Monday, bringing the total to 50,764 in the nation of 10 million people.

Mr Babis said it was a mistake to lift restrictions in the summer. "Even I got carried away by the coming summer and the general mood. That was a mistake I don't want to make again," he said. However he said he did not want to introduce the same wide-ranging measures, and called on Czechs to act responsibly.

Asked how much social mixing should take place, Mr Gove says human beings thrive on human contact and "we would always want to make sure that families can meet".

He goes on to say common sense would mean that hosting a party for 20 in a home would not be right.

"Common sense dictates that there are types of social event that would be excessive and risky, but others that we could support and allow."

He says some will say the measures are too restrictive, some will say they are too permissive - "we are trying to strike a balance".

He repeats his message from earlier that those who can work from home should, and he acknowledges this is a change to the government's previous message to get back to their offices.

Chris Mason
Political Correspondent

It’s one of those mornings where there are plenty of us reporters and camera crews in Downing Street. Cabinet ministers have been arriving in the last half hour — they are due to meet at about 08:30 BST.

After that there’ll be an emergency Cobra meeting, which the leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will join.

Then a statement from the prime minister to the Commons at lunchtime, and to the country this evening.

We’ve got used to rather big days in this pandemic.

Today will feel like another one.

Michael Gove is now being interviewed on the BBC's Today programme.

The Cabinet Office minister says the PM will be unveiling a package of measures later.

He says the rule of six - which limits the number of people gathering to six - will remain.

This message is well understood, he says.

Calum Semple, a professor of child health and outbreak medicine at the University of Liverpool, does not believe the new measures in England go far enough.

He says there is "significant anxiety" in the scientific community as they are seeing cases rise in the under 50s as well as the elderly.

He tells the BBC's Today programme he can see the country having to ban households from mixing; reduce sporting events; move higher education to an online service and place more stringent measures on the hospitality sector.

"The time to act is now," he warns.

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Large British hotel and restaurant company Whitbread has announced 6,000 employees could lose their jobs as the two industries continues to suffer in the pandemic.

The owner of chains Premier Inn and Beefeater says that hotel stays in August have halved compared with last year, while diner numbers fell by more than a third.

Whitbread says it expects demand to remain lower in the short-term.

Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove is doing the media rounds ahead of the Boris Johnson Commons statement we're expecting later.

On the BBC's Breakfast, he explained the reasons behind the latest measures affecting the hospitality sector, saying "we are trying to strike a balance".

"Nobody wants to take these steps. They are not taken with relish by anyone."

He pointed out there would be further measures announced by the PM, but stressed schools should remain open.

In a shift from recent messaging to try to get workers back into their offices and workplaces, Mr Gove said: "If you can work from home, do."

Asked how long the new measures would last, he said if we could succeed in beating back the virus, the measures could be relaxed.

"We are going to have a challenging six months," he said.

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More than 700,000 people in Mexico have now been infected with coronavirus, according to official statistics, but the deputy health minister has warned that the true number is much higher.

But Hugo Lopez-Gatell also said that the pace of the pandemic was slowing. "We now have eight consecutive weeks of a falling (caseload)," he said on Monday.

The official death toll now stands at 73,697 people.

Latin America is the hardest-hit region, with around 8.7 million cases reported and 322,000 deaths. Peru, Colombia and Brazil have seen large outbreaks. Argentina broke its record last week for daily rises in cases after it reported almost 13,000 in one day.

Sir Bernard Jenkin, a senior Conservative backbencher, said the new measures on pubs would put owners under “terrible strain”, adding that they were only just keeping their heads above water.

The move was a “very strong nudge” to people that we are in a very serious situation, he said, but any measures to mitigate a full-scale national lockdown had to be accepted.

He blamed the current situation on the failings with the UK’s test and trace system. People have been struggling to get tests and results have been late coming.

Sir Bernard suggested it was time to bring in the Army to help deliver a better testing service, suggesting Army chiefs were “sitting on plans” and wondering why they weren’t being asked to help.

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The new measures for all pubs and restaurants to close at 10pm and to only allow table service have been met by concern in the hospitality industry.

Kate Nicholls, chief executive of trade body UKHospitality, said the new rules should be "applied with flexibility", and that a 10pm closing time was "bad for business and bad for controlling the virus".

She said most venues have already adopted table service but it was not necessary in places like coffee shops.

Michael Kill, chief executive of the Night-Time Industries Association, warned the move would result in a surge of unregulated events and house parties.

Christopher Snowdon, head of lifestyle economics at free-market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs, said the latest restrictions seemed "to have emerged from a random policy generator".

"While mandatory table service has been part of the successful Swedish approach and may have merit, the new closing time will be devastating to a hospitality sector that was already suffering after the first lockdown," he said.

More now on those announcements expected in the UK today.

Pubs, bars and restaurants in England will have to close by 10pm every night from Thursday, and only table service will be permitted.

We’re expecting Boris Johnson to set out the new measures in the Commons at 12:30 BST before he addresses the nation in a live broadcast at 20:00 BST.

People in Northern Ireland will not be allowed to visit someone else's home from 18:00 BST with a few exceptions, such as childcare. Up to six people from two households can meet in private gardens.

Tighter restrictions are also coming into force in four more parts of South Wales - Merthyr Tydfil, Bridgend, Blaenau Gwent and Newport. Hundreds of thousands of people will not be allowed to enter or leave their own areas without a valid reason, such as work.Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will announce tougher measures for Scotland today.

She says she'll wait to make the announcement until after an emergency meeting with Boris Johnson.

BBC News understands the government is poised to scrap plans for the return of some spectators to sporting venues next month. Pilot events have been taking place - with a maximum attendance of 1,000.

And about 30 million people in England are to be offered a flu jab in the biggest ever such vaccination programme.

Public Health England hopes to reduce the burden on the NHS during the winter and minimise the number of people who could become simultaneously infected with both flu and the coronavirus.

Hello and welcome to our live reporting of the coronavirus pandemic. Here are the main stories so far on Tuesday:

• UK PM Boris Johnson will announce new restrictions to fight coronavirus - he'll make a statement to the House of Commons at 12.30 (11.30 GMT). Pubs will have to close from 22.00 from Thursday
• Mexico's total number of confirmed infections has risen past 700,000 as the virus continues to spread rapidly in Latin America
• New safety measures for making films in the age of coronavirus have been agreed by Hollywood's unions raising hopes that the industry can soon resume production
• The prime minister of Czech Republic has admitted it was a mistake to ease restrictions in the summer - the country of 10 million people now has more than 50,000 cases
• Stock markets in Asia recorded large falls on Tuesday following significant losses in Europe and US markets on Monday. There are growing fears about the further impact of the pandemic on economic performance