Boris Johnson confirms a four-week delay to the lifting of all restrictions in England beyond 21 June.
Capacity limits for sports, pubs and cinemas will remain, and nightclubs will stay closed.
The delay is designed to allow more people to be vaccinated and have second doses amid rising cases of the Delta variant.
Businesses are fearful of further heavy losses and the clubbing trade body is threatening legal action.
Headache, sore throat, runny nose are now the most commonly reported symptoms linked to Covid infection in the UK, researchers say.
India has reported 70,421 new infections - its lowest number since 31 March and down from a peak of about 400,000 daily cases in May.
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