Restaurants in Paris can stay open but bars cannot; Russia reports 10,499 cases on Sunday; nine New York neighbourhoods head for lockdown * Trump and Covid: what we know so far * Covid pandemic lays bare Spain’s chronic shortage of medics * Minister: colleagues who didn’t download app being ‘very French’ * Trump coronavirus updates – live * UK coronavirus updates – live 12.38pm BST IRAN HAS REGISTERED A RECORD HIGH 3,902 NEW CORONAVIRUS CASES IN THE PAST 24 HOURS, with the total number of identified cases in the worst-hit country in the Middle East rising to 475,674, state TV has reported. Health ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari told the television station that 235 patients had died in the past 24 hours, equalling a daily death toll high set on 28 July. 12.28pm BST Some rare good news – in spite of the pandemic – out of GREECE this morning where the announcement of a $1bn investment by MICROSOFT is being seen as a badly needed shot in the arm for an economy pummelled by Covid-19. In a ceremony held in the Acropolis Museum within view of the fifth century BC site, the US tech giant announced plans to create three data centres in the greater Athens region. Continue reading...
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