US coronavirus deaths pass 80,000: Live updates
Al JazeeraThe grim milestone comes as France, Spain and Russia begin to lift restrictions. 10:10 GMT – Spain’s daily coronavirus death toll falls to 123 Spain’s daily coronavirus death toll fell to 123, the health ministry said, its lowest level in seven weeks. “Starting from the 4th of July at the very earliest, those other sectors where they are inherently more difficult because people are mixing together and it’s difficult to maintain the social distancing, we wouldn’t be able to say … that we would start them at least until the 4th of July.” 06:40 GMT – Men have high levels of enzyme key to COVID-19 infection: Study Men’s blood has higher levels of a key enzyme used by the new coronavirus to infect cells than women’s, the results of a big European study showed – a finding which may help explain why men are more vulnerable to infection with COVID-19. 06:10 GMT – India to ‘gradually’ restart rail operations in lockdown easing One of the world’s largest train networks will “gradually” restart operations from Tuesday as India eases its six-week coronavirus lockdown. “We should quickly find and test them.” 02:40 GMT – Tunisia reports zero new cases for first time since March Tunisia reported no new cases of coronavirus on Monday for the first time since March.