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More than 250 repatriated Australians have returned home and will begin a two-week supervised quarantine in an Adelaide hotel.

The passengers arrived at Adelaide Airport on Saturday morning Australian time on a flight from Mumbai via Singapore, reported AAP.

Authorities wore face masks and provided hand sanitiser to each of the passengers before they were transferred to the Pullman hotel in the CBD by bus.

On Friday, South Australia’s state health minister Stephen Wade said a number of Covid-19 cases should be expected among the returning passengers.

He said all those arriving in the state would be tested when they landed and while in isolation.

“What we’ve seen interstate is about five to 10% of travellers returning from the subcontinent have tested positive on their arrival,” Wade said.

“If we see similar figures in SA we could expect up to 25 new cases from these planes.”

Staying in the US, Reuters reports that the White House is yet to commit to temperature checks for airline passengers.

The vice president, Mike Pence, met with the chief executives of United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, JetBlue Airways and the president of Southwest Airlines at the White House alongside Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) director Mark Redfield, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and other officials.

Airlines want the US government to administer temperature checks to all passengers in a bid to reassure the public.

The Trump administration is open to the idea of having the Transportation Security Administration conduct the tests, but there are still many unanswered questions, including what would happen to passengers who had high fevers and were denied boarding and how to pay for the screening.

Reuters said the CDC does not want to be responsible for travellers with high fevers, according to two people briefed on the meeting.

My colleague in the US, Sam Levin, has this update.

Most US residents will likely be blocked from travelling to the European Union when travel restarts, due to ongoing concerns about the coronavirus, according to multiple reports.

EU officials are in the process of settling on a final “safe list” of countries whose residents could travel to the block in July, but the US, Brazil and Russia are set to be excluded, Reuters reported. With coronavirus continuing to spread in the US at alarming rates, the possibility of allowing American tourists into the EU is not even part of the ongoing discussion, six diplomats familiar with the talks told the Washington Post.

The list of allowed countries includes China, but on the condition that China allows EU travellers to visit, the New York Times reported.

Various travel restrictions remain across the globe. Greece, for example, requires Covid tests for arrivals from a number of EU countries, including France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. Self isolation is also mandatory until results come in.

You can read our US politics live blog here.

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Returning to Brazil briefly, the president Jair Bolsonaro has appealed a court ruling which found he was required to wear a face mask in public.

Bolsonaro has been regularly photographed meeting supporters without a mask, despite regulations in Brasilia which state that they are mandatory.

Agence-France Presse reports that the Brazilian attorney general’s officesaid the ruling was redundant since face masks are already mandatory in Brasilia.

“This interference from the courts is unnecessary,” a spokeswoman for the attorney general’s office told AFP.

Since the ruling, the president has been sighted wearing a mask in public.

In Australia, there were 36 new cases on Friday, 533 still active. There were six new infections in NSW and 30 in Victoria which has trebled its active cases to 183 in just over a week.

Authorities say seven of Victoria’s cases are linked to known outbreaks, while five are of people in hotel quarantine, five were detected through routine testing, and 13 remain under investigation.

In NSW, a 12-year-old Sydney high school student was among those who tested positive. Queensland also notched up its first case in over a week – a defence force worker returning from Papua New Guinea.

More than 9.68 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 490,118 have died, according to Reuters’ latest tally.

Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.

Summer holidays abroad have been given the green light for UK tourists after the government confirmed the requirement to self-isolate for 14 days upon returning to the UK will be scrapped for a slew of popular destinations.

The Press Association reports that trips to France, Greece and Spain look on the cards after the government confirmed it will revise the quarantine measures at Monday’s review.

In place of the quarantine arrangements will be a traffic light system, with officials placing countries into green, amber and red categories based on the prevalence of coronavirus within each nation’s borders.

Only passengers arriving into the UK from nations in the red category, where the spread of coronavirus is deemed to be high, will be told to self-isolate for two weeks.

Travellers will, however, still have to hand over the address they plan to reside at on their return, no matter which country they are coming back from.

As well as allowing holidays abroad to take place this summer, the government said the changes would provide a “vital lifeline for UK travel operators and those whose jobs rely on the travel industry”.

A government spokeswoman said: “Our public health measures at the border were put in place to manage the risk of imported cases and help prevent a second wave of the virus, and will continue to support our fight against coronavirus.

“Our new risk-assessment system will enable us to carefully open a number of safe travel routes around the world – giving people the opportunity for a summer holiday abroad and boosting the UK economy through tourism and business.

“But we will not hesitate to put on the brakes if any risks re-emerge, and this system will enable us to take swift action to reintroduce self-isolation measures if new outbreaks occur overseas.”

Related: Britons to be allowed to holiday abroad from July via ‘air bridges’

The San Franscisco mayor, London Breed, says the city is delaying plans to reopen sections of the economy on Monday.

She explained the decision in a series of tweets.

Australia is bracing for the likelihood of more coronavirus cases as hundreds of return travellers land in the coming days, and a worrying surge in infections continues in the state of Victoria.

Although the virus has been all but eliminated in large swathes of the country, the Victorian capital Melbourne continued its run of double-digit case increases with 30 new cases on Friday, while the city also recorded the first Covid-related death in many weeks on Wednesday.

Despite authorities’ concerns in Victoria, others states where community transmission is negligible are beginning to open up their economies. Western Australia’s nightclubs, for example, are among a large list of businesses allowed to reopen this weekend.

Still, Australia’s outgoing chief medical officer, Brendan Murphy, said Friday night he was sure that the country’s borders would not fully reopen until a vaccine is found. It followed a prediction from the national carrier, Qantas, that international travel would not resume for Australians until July next year.

Hello, this is Luke Henriques-Gomes in Melbourne. We will be restarting our global coronavirus live blog now.

First up, I’ll bring you the latest news from Australia shortly.

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Meanwhile, in England, police chiefs are warning of civil unrest if political leaders take a hardline approach to public disorder as the lockdown lifts. You can read the full piece here:

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And finally, the age profile of new infections in the coronavirus pandemic appears to be younger following resurgences in countries such as the United States, Israel and Portugal linked to greater social contact among under 40s following the loosening of restrictions.

The trend has been most marked in the US and noted by scientists at the World Health Organization, who have also seen infections of younger people in the developing world contributing to the shifting demographics.

More on that here:

Related: More young people infected with Covid-19 as cases surge globally

The number of people who died from coronavirus in France rose by 26 to 29,778 on Friday, but people hospitalised for Covid-19 fell below the 9,000 threshold for the first time in more than three months.

That fatalities increase is the highest in three days. France’s death toll is the fifth-highest in the world.

During the briefing in Washington, Pence blamed the rising number of new coronavirus cases on increased testing.

“It’s almost inarguable that more testing is generating more cases,” he said.

However, public health experts have said the rising number of cases is more attributable to states reopening and Americans relaxing social distancing practices.

It is also important to note that coronavirus hospitalizations are rising in many states, indicating the crisis is worsening.

Pence said President Trump had asked the White House coronavirus taskforce to hold a briefing because of the surge in cases in southern states.

“Our focus today is very much on the advent of a rising series of new cases across the American South,” Pence said.

“President Trump asked us to brief the American people to give details on what we’re seeing, what we’re doing and how it’s different from two months ago.”

Pence added that half of new virus cases are Americans aged under 35 and that 16 states are seeing an increase in cases.

The US vice-president, Mike Pence, is now holding the first coronavirus taskforce briefing in nearly two months.

He urged Americans to embrace social distancing amid rising cases.

Pence also announced he would still visit Texas on Sunday, as planned, to “get a ground report” on the state’s surge in new coronavirus cases.

He heralded the progress made in hard-hit states like New York and New Jersey.

“We have made truly remarkable progress in moving our nation forward,” he said.

The New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, has offered to help hospitals in other states struggling to cope with Covid-19 cases.

He also criticised states that reopened their economies before getting the virus under control, saying there was “undeniable, irrefutable evidence” those states made a mistake.

Cuomo said New York was ready and willing to assist states with surging outbreaks by sending volunteer staff and equipment.

“Our offer is open-ended,” the governor said.

“Equipment, staff, knowledge, ventilators, National Guard assistance, whatever they need.”

Here is a video of clashes between residents near Naples after a cluster of Covid-19 cases put five buildings in lockdown, and the army was deployed to the area.

A South African high court has dismissed an attempt by tobacco makers to overturn a ban on sales of their products, saying the addictiveness of cigarettes did not qualify them as essential products.

Since 27 March, the government has imposed a tobacco sales ban as part of stringent measures to control the spread of coronavirus.

The Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association (FITA) legally challenged the “irrational” ban, saying it had led to the mushrooming of an illicit cigarette market in the country.

But the request went up in smoke and three judges in the Gauteng high court ruled that cigarettes and related tobacco products do not, by their nature, fall into the same category as goods which are life-sustaining or necessary for basic functionality.

Tobacco and alcohol were among the products banned since the beginning of the lockdown, in an attempt to slow the spread of the virus.

When President Cyril Ramaphosa lifted the ban on alcohol sales on 1 June, he kept the moratorium on tobacco “due to the health risks associated with smoking”.

Paris’s Orly airport reopened on Friday after three months closure during the coronavirus pandemic, which was briefly disrupted by climate protesters storming the runway.

A plane operated by low-cost carrier Transavia took off for Porto, the first commercial flight since the airport came to a halt on 31 March.

Two firetrucks on either side of the plane shot arcs of water over the stationary aircraft in celebration, with the passengers inside waiting to taxi to the runway.

But hours later, Extinction Rebellion activists stormed the runway, lit flares and attached themselves to bicycles with locks around their necks. They were protesting against the bailing out of the aviation industry, which suffered huge losses with the grounding of air traffic during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Twenty-nine people were arrested including a journalist from ecological news website Reporterre, according to an Extinction Rebellion tweet.

About 8,000 passengers were expected on Friday, less than 10% of the daily pre-virus average of about 90,000. They will be on more than 70 flights, compared with the normal run of 600 a day.

Traffic is due to increase to 200 flights daily in July but it will depend much on whether Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia reopen their borders, as well as on whether the virus remains under control.

For nearly three months, all commercial flights from Paris have taken off from Charles de Gaulle airport.

Florida is reporting a record-high number of new coronavirus cases in a single day, after the state set its last record earlier this week.

The Florida department of health reported 8,942 new cases from yesterday, shattering the state’s previous single-day record of 5,506 cases, which was reported on Wednesday.

Florida has confirmed 122,960 coronavirus cases in total and the state has lost 3,366 residents to the virus so far.

The rate of positive test results has also increased, the Florida department of health reported. Thursday saw 13.1% of test results come back positive, up from 8.9% on Wednesday.

South-east Asian leaders have warned the virus pandemic has swept away years of economic gains and was hindering negotiations over the flashpoint South China Sea as they met online for a delayed summit.

Vietnam, the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), had wanted to use the summit to inject momentum into talks on a sprawling China-backed trade pact.

But the immediate focus for the 10-member bloc was the crippling cost of the coronavirus, which has ravaged the economies of tourism and export-reliant countries such as Thailand and Vietnam.

“It has swept away the successes of recent years … threatening the lives of millions of people,” Vietnam’s prime minister, Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, said in a sobering opening address.

He emphasised the “serious consequences” of the pandemic for economic development among Asean’s members.

Asean’s general secretary, Lim Jock Hoi, confirmed the bleak outlook, warning the region’s economy is expected to contract for the first time in 22 years.

Belgium has set up a new system to track mobile phones in order to limit crowding of seaside resorts and beaches that formally open for the summer season on Saturday.

Health authorities across Europe are concerned at the prospect of masses flocking to local beaches and risking the spread of the coronavirus, such as at the English resort of Bournemouth on Thursday.

Belgium’s coastal towns are not seeking to bar tourists from coming, but do want them to use common sense, such as rerouting to a less busy spot or choosing to shop later.

The 10 districts along the coast will detect mobile phones on beaches and the nearby dikes and seafronts and display the live information on a website, with codes from dark green for calm to orange for very busy.

A further 130 sensors in the towns will indicate to people the busy spots they should avoid. The website hopes to give an idea of how busy the resorts are likely to be in the coming days.

One town has put in beach markings to indicate 3 square metres.
“We have implemented what we call ‘beach bubbles’, where one family or friends can be together in a safe way and to visualise the distance that they should be from one another,” Anthony Wittesaele, town councillor for tourism, told Reuters.

Swimming in the sea off Belgium is banned until the on-season, when lifeguards are patrolling. It was delayed from May until this Saturday and runs until mid-September.

A few more pictures from Mondragone in southern Italy, where the military was sent in to restore order after a coronavirus outbreak at an apartment complex illegally occupied by hundreds of migrant workers caused angry confrontations with residents.

The area has been sealed off and people will need to quarantine for two weeks, the regional president has said. Hundreds of tests have been carried out as part of efforts to contain the outbreak.

The Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, discussed the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic by phone on Friday, the Greek leader’s office said – a rare such contact for two neighbours at odds over a range of issues.

Erdoğan and Mitsotakis addressed ways of handling the effects of the coronavirus outbreak, the reopening of borders and the re-establishment of tourist flows, a statement from Mitsotakis’s office said.

“Mr Mitsotakis and Mr Erdoğan agreed to keep the bilateral channels of communication open,” it said. A source with knowledge of the matter said: “The two leaders didn’t discuss high policy matters but they did agree that tension is relatively high and that channels of communication must be restored.

“There cannot be a de-escalation of tensions if the two sides don’t talk.”

Though Nato partners and neighbours, Greece and Turkey have testy relations and differences on issues as diverse as airspace rights, maritime boundaries and ethnically divided Cyprus.

I’m Fran Lawther and I’m now taking over from my colleague Sarah Marsh. Thanks for following along.

European stock markets bounced back on Friday from recent losses, but an increase in global coronavirus infections fanned worries about a feared second wave, dealers said.

Leading European indices were posting healthy gains by the mid-afternoon.

“Governments and central banks continue to shield equities from the bad news on fresh spikes in coronavirus and evidence of the economic damage wrought by the pandemic,” said Russ Mould, investment director at brokerage firm AJ Bell.

But on Wall Street, the Dow index lost ground at the opening bell as investors conviction about a rebounding economy was “being stymied by lingering Covid-19 concerns as new cases persist,” said analysts at the Charles Schwab brokerage.

Adding to caution was US personal spending data for May, which showed a smaller than expected rebound from the previous month, they said.

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Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi said Friday that it would eliminate 1,700 European jobs, including 1,000 in France, as part of a cost-cutting drive announced last December.

The move comes just days after the company announced it would invest €490m (£445m) to build a new vaccine production site in France that would create 200 jobs, during a factory visit alongside Emmanuel Macron.

Company officials did not mention the coming layoffs during the visit, “but the French authorities knew that we had a restructuring to carry out,” Sanofi’s France chief, Olivier Bogillot, told AFP on Friday.

The layoffs will be voluntary, and will affect marketing and support divisions as well as some research jobs.

The Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp) is in talks to test a potential coronavirus vaccine developed by Italian researchers, the dean of the Brazilian university told Reuters.

With the world’s worst outbreak outside the US, Brazil has become a leading front in the global race for a vaccine, as clinical trials are likely to yield results faster in places where the virus is widespread.

Soraya Smaili, the president of Unifesp, said on Wednesday: “We are already in advanced discussions with Italy’s Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute. We expect to bring it here, the accord is already moving forward and we’ll be able to do a lot of studies with this vaccine.”

The Italian researchers want to conduct midstage trials and final phase three studies involving thousands of subjects in Brazil, Smaili said.

Around the world at a glance:

Some powerful US senators are pushing back against an attempt by the Trump administration’s Treasury Department to weaken a watchdog panel involved with overseeing .4tn in pandemic aid, according to three congressional aides. The Trump administration has petitioned the US supreme court to invalidate the Obamacare law, which added millions to the healthcare safety net, seeking to scrap coverage during the novel coronavirus crisis.

More than 9.62 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 489,208 have died, a Reuters tally showed as of 1222 GMT on Friday.

Russia reported on Friday 6,800 new coronavirus cases, the first daily rise below 7,000 since late April, taking its nationwide tally of infections to 620,794.

Ireland plans to lift from 9 July a 14-day quarantine for people arriving from countries that have also suppressed the coronavirus, acting prime minister, Leo Varadkar, said on Thursday.

Argentine doctors are predicting coronavirus cases will peak in coming weeks as the southern hemisphere winter sets in, straining hospital intensive care units after confirmed cases accelerated past 50,000.

The governor of Texas temporarily halted the state’s reopening on Thursday as Covid-19 infections and the number of people admitted to hospital surged, as the US set a new record for a one-day increase in cases.

Mexico’s health ministry on Thursday reported 6,104 new confirmed cases and 736 deaths. The finance ministry said it has initiated epidemiological contact tracing after the finance minister, Arturo Herrera, tested positive for the virus.

Japan recorded on Friday more than 100 new infections for the first time since 9 May, hitting its highest daily total since it eased a lockdown, Kyodo News reported.

Thailand confirmed on Friday four new coronavirus cases, all of which were imported from abroad, marking 32 days without community transmission.

Israel and the United Arab Emirates will cooperate in the fight against the coronavirus, the two countries said on Thursday, in a possible boost to Israeli efforts to normalise relations with Gulf Arab countries.

Nigeria’s outbreak may push 5 million people into poverty as it triggers the worst recession in the African country since the 1980s, the World Bank said.

Vaxart Inc said on Friday it would test its potential Covid-19 vaccine on monkeys in a study organised by the Trump Administration’s vaccine-acceleration program called Operation Warp Speed.

Shares of the US vaccine developer jumped 63% before the opening bell. The company said the study would be funded by Operation Warp Speed, which aims to provide safe and effective vaccines by January 2021.

Vaxart said the vaccine is an oral tablet and is easier to store and administer than injectable ones.

There are no approved vaccines for the coronavirus, and several companies including AstraZeneca Plc and Moderna Inc have been rushing to develop a viable vaccine candidate.

Executives and other experts have suggested clinical trials to guarantee a vaccine is safe and effective could take a minimum of 12 to 18 months

The World Health Organization is holding a press briefing, which you can watch at the top of this blog.

They are talking about the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator, or the ACT Accelerator, which is designed to accelerate the development, production and equitable distribution of vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics for coronavirus.