PM Boris Johnson has held a press conference on the eve of some lockdown measures being eased in England

He says local lockdowns - like that in Leicester - will be "a feature of our lives for some time to come"

There is no "risk-free next step" says chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty

Businesses' success is dependent on "every single one of us acting responsibly", says PM

People arriving in England from dozens of nations will no longer need to quarantine from 10 July

New figures suggest 20,000 care home residents have died with Covid-19 in England and Wales since the beginning of March

The governor of Texas has ordered face coverings to be worn in public as US virus cases rocket

India's reported more than 20,000 new cases in a single day for the first time since the outbreak began

Globally there are 10.8m virus cases and there have been more than 520,000 deaths