Coronavirus live news: global cases pass 5.5m as WHO warns of 'second peak'

Irish taoiseach Leo Varadkar denies picnic with friends was rule breach; World health leaders urge green recovery; Singapore warns of worst economic contractionGlobal report: ‘disaster’ looms as WHO warns of second peakLeo Varadkar denies picnic with friends broke Covid-19 rulesDominic Cummings refuses to resign or apologise for lockdown breachUK coronavirus updates - liveUS coronavirus updates - liveCoronavirus latest: at a glance2.52pmBSTControl overGermany’s lockdown measures is increasingly slipping fromAngela Merkel’s grasp as more federal states announced unilateral steps to loosen restrictions, creating a patchwork of wildly varying rules on social distancing within the country.Winfried Kretschmann, the premier ofBaden-W ürttemberg, announced on Tuesday his state would from 1 June allow seated public events with up to 100 people, adding that there were no plans for further plans to hold the video conferences in which the leaders of Germany ’s 16 Länder had until now coordinated their handling of the pandemic.Other states simultaneously announced they would loosen restrictions around different parts of public life: the mayor of Hamburg, for example, said the city state would over the coming days reopen cinemas, open-air swimming pools and gyms.On Monday, Merkel ’s government had postponed a meeting of its “corona cabinet” after the premier of Thuringia announced plans to end both the obligatory wearing of face coverings and the limit on the number of p...
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