Coronavirus live news: India sees lowest new cases in six weeks; Japan expected to extend restrictions
Japan expected to extend emergency measures in Tokyo and several other regions by three weeks; India cases rise by 186,364, lowest since 14 April
- Three-quarters of new UK ‘cases could be India variant’
- Japan to extend emergency measures two months ahead of Olympics
- California launches largest US vaccine lottery yet with $1.5m prize
- UK government faces calls to explain Covid test failings at care homes
- WHO calls for 6m more nurses worldwide
Harry Taylor is on our UK live blog duties this morning, and he’s just got that started for the day. If you are after UK news, then you can follow that with him over here…
Related: UK Covid live: calls to push back 21 June reopening in England after PM admits ‘we may need to wait’
Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland, Leo Varadkar, has said that Irish citizens should be able move more freely across the European Union from mid-July, but cast doubt on whether it would also apply to Britain.
“The advice that we have, and we’re accepting this advice, is that there are real concerns about the Indian variant and for that reason, we’re not in a position to restore the common travel area just yet,” Varadkar told national broadcaster RTE.
Read the original article at The Guardian