[Jimbuna]

Beachgoers in the UK are being urged to maintain social distancing measures as temperatures soar across the country.

Mexico's death toll has passed 50,000, days after it became the country with the third-highest toll, after the US and Brazil.

More than one million coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Africa, although the true extent of the pandemic there is not known.

South Africa accounts for more than half of these cases, but there are concerns about a lack of data from Tanzania.

Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam announces free Covid-19 tests for anyone in the city who wants one.

Data suggests about one person in every 1,900 has the virus in homes in England - with statisticians saying cases may be levelling off.

But an increase in cases in the city of Preston leads to more local lockdown measures in north-west England.