Summary
Here’s a round-up of this evening’s Covid-19 news.
The UK government reported its lowest new case figures for more than a month on Saturday, with 72,727 infections. The figures don’t include Scotland’s case numbers, as figures for new positive PCR cases are not available at the weekend.
Chile has broken its record for daily cases for the fourth day in a row, with more than 29,000 confirmed in the last 24 hours.
Ukraine has marked the 100,000th person to die from Covid-19 in the country since the start of the pandemic.
Turkey’s health minister Fahrettin Koca said the worst of the pandemic was over, despite the country joining others in breaking its daily case record on Saturday. A total of 94,783 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours.
Italy reported 137,147 new cases on Saturday.
Some schools in the UK have reintroduced mask wearing in classrooms, in the same week where the government dropped it as part of its official rules.
France has reported 332,398 new Covid-19 cases, the fifth day in a row the figures have fallen.
Former US presidential candidate Mitt Romney is isolating after testing positive for Covid-19.
Another 522 people have died from Covid-19 in Mexico, Reuters reports. It means that 305,762 have died from the virus during the pandemic.