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La Liga returns to action later as third-placed Sevilla host their city rivals Real Betis at 20:00 GMT (21:00 BST) in Spain's first top-flight game since 10 March.

There are 11 rounds of fixtures remaining and all games will be played behind closed doors, with a minute's silence taking place in memory of the victims of the pandemic.

The Seville derby would normally attract a 40,000-plus crowd to Sevilla's ground but their coach Julen Lopetegui hopes fans stay away and ensure safety outside the venue.

"I hope people do what law enforcement forces are telling them to do," said the former Spain and Real Madrid boss. "The measures are for the common good. The message is one of responsibility."

We have everything you need to know about La Liga's return.

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Hungary wants a fair EU economic relaunch package, and the current proposal must be stripped of discriminatory elements, the Hungarian prime minister has said.

"Hungary has a fundamentally positive attitude towards the proposal on the recovery fund, but there is still a lot of work to be done on it, the absurd elements must be removed from it," Viktor Orban was quoted by MTI news agency as saying.

"It's a moral problem that, on the whole, rich countries would receive more money than poorer ones, that cannot remain the case."

The prime ministers of the Visegrad Group, also known as V4 - Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia - met in the Czech city of Lednice to discuss the EU Recovery Fund, the next multi-annual EU budget, border openings, tourism and migration, MTI reported.

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Shutting down the US economy for a second time to slow the spread of coronavirus is not a viable option, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has said.

"We can't shut down the economy again. I think we've learned that if you shut down the economy, you're going to create more damage," Mnuchin told CNBC, external.

"And not just economic damage. There are other areas and we've talked about this - medical problems and everything else that get put on hold."

Mnuchin said he thought President Donald Trump's actions had been "very prudent", adding: "But I think we've learned a lot."

Latest US unemployment figures show that a further 1.5 million people lost their jobs in the past week. It brings the total number of unemployment benefit claims since mid-March to 44.2 million.

Welcome to our live updates on the coronavirus pandemic. In some of the latest developments:

• 151 people in the UK who tested positive died over the past 24 hours
• More than 31,000 close contacts were identified during the first week of the test and trace system in England, figures show
• The UK government is facing calls from Tory backbenchers to drop the 2m (6ft) social distancing rule in England
• The number of confirmed cases in the US is now over two million, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University, external
• The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating in Africa, the World Health Organization says

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Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has begun human testing of its experimental antibody cocktail as a treatment for Covid-19.

George Yancopoulos, chief scientific officer of the US biotechnology company, says the trial has an "adaptive" design and could quickly move from dozens of patients to eventually include thousands.

"If it goes perfectly well, within a week or two we'll move to the second phase," he told Reuters news agency. "Within a month or so of that we'll have clear data that this is or isn't working. By the end of summer, we could have sufficient data for broad utilisation."

The dual antibody, called REGN-COV2, is being compared to a placebo treatment in hospitalised patients and patients who have symptoms but are not sick enough to be hospitalised.

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The US presidential election is still months away, in November, but the pandemic is already having an impact.

The nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation and Research has reported "drastic declines in new voter registrations", external due to Covid-19.

The centre found that in January and February, there were higher numbers of new voter registrations than in the previous election year, 2016. But numbers began declining in March, and massively in April, when coronavirus restrictions were put into place.

"Every one of the states we analysed saw new voter registration activity in April 2020 drop by over 50% compared to April 2016."

The report comes as basketball star LeBron James and other African-American celebrities are launching a new voting rights group - More Than A Vote - to register black Americans to vote and call out voter suppression, James told the New York Times, external.

"People are finally starting to listen to us - we feel like we're finally getting a foot in the door," he said.

"We're going to give you the background of how to vote and what they're trying to do, the other side, to stop you from voting."

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The White House Coronavirus Task Force cautioned governors this week that the massive protests sparked by George Floyd's death could cause a rise in Covid-19 cases.

"We respect the right of every American to exercise their First Amendment rights, but we want to encourage them to do so safely," Vice-President Mike Pence said in a conference call with state leaders, according to an audio recording obtained by CBS News, external.

Task force expert Dr Deborah Birx noted during the call that most major cities were seeing declines in new Covid-19 cases in recent weeks, but that it was unclear whether the masks used by some protesters were effective in preventing any additional spread - especially as higher-risk groups joined peaceful demonstrations.

She also said around 70 urban testing sites were damaged in some of the more violent protests.

The US is not the only nation concerned by the effect these protests may have on the pandemic. As we reported earlier, a Black Lives Matter protester in Australia has also fallen ill - a day after he attended a rally with thousands of other people in Melbourne.

The man had worn a mask, but was still potentially infectious, health officials there said.

There has been one more coronavirus-related death recorded by Northern Ireland's health service.

Their total now stands at 538. These are mostly focused on hospital deaths.

Yesterday was the fourth day in a row that no new coronavirus-related deaths were recorded by NI's health service in a 24-hour period.

A total of 4,822 people have tested positive for Covid-19 - which means there have been four new cases in the last 24 hours.

The results are updated on a daily basis on the Department of Health's Covid-19 dashboard., external

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A rights group has called on the United Arab Emirates to urgently tackle reported outbreaks of coronavirus at three detention facilities.

Human Rights Watch said they had received complaints from relatives, external of inmates at al-Wathba prison near Abu Dhabi, as well as in al-Awir prison and al-Barsha detention centre in Dubai.

Prisoners had shown Covid-19 symptoms or tested positive for the virus, the relatives said, but were being denied adequate health care.

Michael Page, HRW Middle East deputy director, said crowded and unsanitary prison conditions and widespread denial of adequate medical care were "nothing new in the UAE's notorious detention facilities".

But he said the pandemic was an additional threat to prisoners' well-being.

"The best way for UAE authorities to allay concerns of prisoners' family members is to allow inspection by independent, international monitors," he said.

UAE authorities have not yet responded. The country has confirmed more than 40,000 cases of Covid-19 and 286 deaths.

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A famed Buddhist temple in Thailand has shut its doors to foreigners, amid fears they could spread Covid-19.

Signs at the main gate of Wat Pho in Bangkok read "Only Thai people, now not open for foreigners".

Wat Pho is one of the grandest temples in Thailand, probably best known for housing the giant figure of Reclining Buddha, which is covered in gold leaf.

The temple is a major tourist attraction in the country.

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The new test, track and trace scheme in England is "not at the gold standard of where we want it to be", says the person in charge of the system.

Asked about an apparent shortfall between the 8,117 who had been identified as testing positive in the first week of the new system and the estimated 5,500 new infections a day, Dido Harding said there had to be more targeted testing of those at most risk of contracting Covid-19 to "hunt out the virus".

Baroness Harding added the system is "fit for purpose from where we stand today" and it "will get better through the summer".

Read how contact tracing works here.

The latest government figures show a further 151 people in the UK who tested positive with coronavirus have died.

It means as of 17:00 BST on 10 June the total death toll from coronavirus, across all settings, has risen to 41,279.

As of 09:00 BST on 11 June, there have been 6,240,801 tests, with 197,007 tests undertakes on 10 June - 291,409 people have tested positive.

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Workers at Chinese state-owned firms are being offered unproven coronavirus vaccines to test their effectiveness, state media reported.

No proven vaccine for the virus has yet been developed but clinical trials of "candidate vaccines" are due to take place around the world.

State newspaper Global Times said employees who were travelling overseas for work could volunteer to take one of two vaccine candidates being developed by affiliates of the state-owned China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm).

A written notice sent to state-run firms said Sinopharm "has given priority to supporting workers intending to go overseas to vaccinate for urgent needs".

The UK prime minister's official spokesman has been giving his lunchtime update to reporters. Here's what we learned:

• Any gathering of more than six people is illegal. Boris Johnson will encourage people not to take part in protests if they cannot do so within social distancing rules. But it would be an operational decision of the police on how to respond to each circumstance
• As of midnight last night, no-one had been fined for any breach of quarantine rules. The regulations, which came into effect on Monday, require anyone entering the UK from abroad to isolate for 14 days
• The prime minister does not feel the incidence of disease is as low as he would like it to be before the government can consider relaxing the rule that people must stay 2m away from anyone who is not part of their household. Asked how low the infection rate had to go to allow a change, the spokesman said there is no specific figure

Some 180 people have been infected with the virus after a gathering celebrating the end of lockdown measures in the central Indian city of Nagpur.

Municipal Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe told BBC Marathi that the person who had organised the party infected 180 people, including 16 from a single family. He says 700 others who had come in contact with those infected have now been quarantined.

A young person organised the gathering for five friends and bought meat from a nearby district where there has been a high level of infections. Afterwards, the host's health deteriorated and he was admitted to hospital.

He initially said he had contracted the virus while out for a walk in a park but later admitted visiting the virus-hit neighbourhood to buy meat.

Officials told the BBC that people routinely conceal activities that could lead to the virus spreading and this represented the biggest risk to the community.

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The US Labor Department reports more than 1.5 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits in the last week.

It's a drop from the week before, when 1.8m claims were filed, but remains high. It marks the second week to see less than 2m jobless applications since mid-March.

More than 40 million Americans lost their jobs over the last few months, as areas shutdown seeking to stop the spread of coronavirus.

In May, the market improved unexpectedly, with businesses beginning to rehire as states started to roll back some of the tough measures put in place to control the virus' spread.

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Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the reproduction rate of the virus - known as the R number - has fallen to between 0.6 and 0.8 in Scotland, as of last Friday, 5 June.

In addition, recent data revealed positive cases of coronavirus in Scotland have fallen from 11,500 a week ago to 4,500.

But the first minister cautioned that the number of cases previously calculated was probably inflated - and the number of cases had not halved in a week, as figures suggested.

Nonetheless, Sturgeon called the data "encouraging", adding "there is no doubt we are making very real progress in combating and suppressing the virus".

She said she was hopeful that next week the Scottish government would be able to lift more restrictions as the country moves to the next phase of its reopening plan.

"We want to move to greater normality as quickly as possible," she said.

Among the immediate restrictions lifted are changes to the construction industry in Scotland, with workers allowed to return to sites "gradually".

"We still have a long way to go before the construction industry will be working at full capacity," Sturgeon warned.

Asked whether the Scottish government might review the 2m social distancing rule, Sturgeon said there were no current plans to change the guidance but she would continue to heed the scientific advice.

More than 31,000 close contacts were identified during the first week of the test and trace system in England.

Out of 8,000 people testing positive for coronavirus, two-thirds provided details of who they had been close to - mostly within 24 hours.

About 25,000 contact tracers were recruited in England and started work at the end of May.

Read more here.

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Egypt will allow international flights and foreign tourists to travel to some of its coastal areas that have been least affected by coronavirus from 1 July.

Red Sea resorts including in South Sinai are expected to be among the first to open along with Mediterranean beaches west of the coastal city of Alexandria.

Egypt closed its airports in March as part of its measures to curb the spread of the disease.