The Foreign Office has warned British nationals against non-essential travel to the Canary and Balearic islands, in a move bringing the popular tourist destinations in line with mainland Spain.
It comes days after the UK announced holidaymakers in Spain would have to quarantine on return due to a spike in cases there.
Meanwhile, Jet2 has suspended all flights and package holidays to mainland Spain until mid-August.
Downing Street has warned “no travel is risk-free” during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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European holiday plans thrown into disarray
Future European holiday plans are under threat during "uncertainty" this summer after holidaymakers in Spain were told they must quarantine when they return home.
The government has stood by its decision to strike Spain off the UK's list of safe destinations after it saw a spike in the number of coronavirus cases.
The foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, said the government "can't make apologies" for the decision made on Saturday - announced less than five hours before coming into force - that arrivals from Spain and its islands would have to self-isolate for 14 days.
Mr Raab, speaking to Sky News' Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme, also refused to rule out rescinding further so-called travel corridors.
"As we've found with Spain, we can't give a guarantee," he said, before adding that there was "an element of uncertainty this summer if people go abroad".
Trips to France, Italy and Greece being cancelled in 'large numbers'
Trips to France, Italy and Greece were being cancelled in "large numbers" following the ruling by ministers on Spain, The Times reported.
The Telegraph said officials in both France and Germany have warned of possible new lockdowns as parts of Europe braced for a second wave of Covid-19 infections.
French health authorities said at the weekend that the country's R-rate was up to 1.3 and that daily new infections on Friday had risen to 1,130 - indicators resembling those seen in May, when France was coming out of its strict two-month lockdown.
Vietnam to evacuate 80,000 people after three test positive in city
Vietnam has ordered the evacuation of 80,000 people from the coastal city of Danang after three residents there tested positive for coronavirus, Tim Wyatt reports.
The government said the evacuation would take four days and involve flights chartered to 11 different Vietnamese cities.
Vietnam, which has been praised for its pandemic response after reporting just 400 cases and no deaths, went back on high alert at the weekend as it confirmed its first local infections since April, all in the popular tourism destination of Danang.
An aggressive and widespread testing regime plus a strict quarantine had helped the South-East Asian nation almost eradicate Covid-19 within its borders, but the authorities are now grappling with its first internal infections for months.
Although foreign tourists are still barred from entering the country, there has been a surge of domestic travel as the Vietnamese take advantage of discounted flights and hotel deals.
Ryanair reports £168m loss during 'most challenging' quarter in its history
Ryanair said it suffered the "most challenging" quarter in its 35-year history as it reported a loss of €185m (£168m).
The low-cost airline, like its competitors, was forced to ground its fleet as Covid-19 wreaked havoc on timetables with travel bans and lockdowns introduced worldwide.
It said a second wave of the disease was now its "biggest fear".
Restrictions saw the company carry 500,000 passengers in the first quarter compared with 41.9 million in the same period last year, while revenue collapsed from €2.3bn (£2.1bn) to €125m (£113m).
The company said: "The past quarter was the most challenging in Ryanair's 35-year history.
"Covid-19 grounded the group's fleet for almost four months (from mid-March to end June) as EU governments imposed flight or travel bans and widespread population lockdowns.
"During this time, group airlines repatriated customers and operated rescue flights for different EU governments, as well as flying a series of medical emergency/PPE flights across Europe."
Possibility of quarantining returns from Germany and France 'under review', minister says
The government is watching the situation in Germany and France closely and continuously reviewing the situation in popular holiday destinations, a junior health minister has said after being asked about widening a quarantine for Spain.
"We have to keep the situation under review and I think that is what the public would expect us to do," junior health minister Helen Whately told Sky when asked about Germany and France possibly being next to face a quarantine.
"If we see rates going up in a country where at the moment there is no need to quarantine, if we see the rates going up, we would have to take action because we cannot take the risk of coronavirus being spread again across the UK," she said.
Labour calls on government to introduce 'smarter measures' at border instead of blanket quarantine
Labour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds has urged the Government to introduce "smarter measures" at the border rather than a blanket quarantine for those returning from Spain.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: "We certainly would be following the advice and introducing protective measures at the border if there are spikes in cases in other countries, absolutely.
"But there are two serious questions around this. The first is why we are still employing the... blunt tool of the 14-day quarantining rather than smarter measures and secondly the chaotic nature of the decision-making which certainly hasn't bred confidence in the Government's approach."
He added: "I think you need a smarter set of quarantine measures at the airport. I've suggested this test, trace and isolate regime but you can also have temperature checking and other things - you look at a range of measures."
Prisoners effectively held in solitary confinement during coronavirus pandemic, MPs told
UK prisoners detained during the coronavirus pandemic have been kept in conditions akin to social confinement for almost four months, MPs have been told, Vincent Wood reports.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) implemented harsh restrictions on the movement of inmates during the height of the nation’s outbreak. Twenty-three prisoners and 9 staff members eventually died after testing positive for the virus.
In an inquiry into the response of British prisons, NGOs have that conditions remain consistent with international definitions of solitary confinement – with some people only allowed out of their cells for half an hour a day.
Meanwhile, MPs have said they are concerned by the longevity of the measures, which have been in place for almost four months, and the lack of transition out of the restrictions.
The Commons Justice Committee was told that while no mass outbreak among the prison population occurred, and the majority of elderly inmates were effectively shielded, a policy that could have seen thousands of prisoners offered temporary release to limit overcrowding was offered to just 200.
Catalonia to take stricter measures if situation does not improve
Catalonia may take stricter measures to limit coronavirus contagion if situation does not improve in the next 10 days, regional leader Quim Torra has announced.
Mr Torra warned that in many parts of Catalonia the data was similar to the situation before Spain declared a national lockdown in March.
He added his administration's goal was to avoid taking as strict measures as the ones that were taken back then.
Earlier this month, Catalan authorities advised some four million people to remain home and leave only for essential trips, banned gatherings of more than ten people and limited the occupancy of bars and restaurants as the number of cases in the region is rising faster than in the rest of the country.
Lockdown has made the nation happier, study finds
Lockdown helped to restore people’s happiness after national levels fell when the pandemic began, new research suggests, Olivia Petter reports.
According to a study by Cambridge University’s Bennett Institute for Public Policy, the number of Britons self-reporting as “happy” halved in just three weeks at the start of lockdown.
Using data taken from YouGov Weekly Mood Tracker surveys and Google searches, the researchers found that the number of people declaring themselves as “happy” went from 51 per cent just before the UK’s first Covid-19 fatality to 25 per cent by the time lockdown began on 23 March.
However, once lockdown restrictions started to be lifted, these figures reversed, with happiness levels increasing back to close to what they were pre-pandemic, reaching 47 per cent by the end of May.
The study also identified a distinction between life satisfaction among social groups, with those in wealthy categories experiencing a decline while the most deprived groups reported a relative rise in life satisfaction.
Be prepared for your holiday to be cancelled, government warns travellers to all countries
British travellers to all countries should be prepared for their holidays to be cancelled under emergency coronavirus quarantine measures, the government has warned, policy correspondent Jon Stone reports.
Ministers this week imposed surprise restrictions on travel between Spain, with two-week quarantines for anyone returning and mass cancellations for anyone with plans.
The last-minute move prompted criticism from Spanish authorities, who say outbreaks are localised and that the measures are disproportionate. Tour operators have also said the lack of warning given was "challenging".
But Helen Whately, health minister, said similar surprise measures could follow for other countries if data showed they were necessary.
"What we are saying to people who are planning trips abroad is you need to keep an eye on the Foreign Office guidance, that you need to be aware of your tour operator's policies and the travel insurance, and be mindful that we are in a global pandemic," she told the BBC.
China reports highest number of cases since it brought virus under control
China has reported 57 coronavirus cases as of Sunday, the highest it has seen since bringing the coronavirus mostly under control in March.
The National Health Commission said 41 cases were located in the far western region of Xinjiang, with the remainder in the northeast.
China has had 83,981 confirmed cases and 4,634 deaths, the commission said.
Indonesia surpasses 100,000 coronavirus cases
Indonesia has surpassed 100,000 coronavirus cases, reporting 1,525 new infections to take the total number to 100,303, data from the country's Health Ministry website showed.
The number of deaths in the Southeast Asian nation related to Covid-19 also increased by 57, to bring the total to 4,838, the data showed.
Hong Kong bans gatherings of more than two and closes restaurants
Hong Kong banned gatherings of more than two people on Monday, closed down restaurant dining and introduced mandatory face masks in public places, including outdoors, as it tries to rein in a new coronavirus outbreak.
The measures, which take effect from Wednesday, are the first time the densely populated city has completely banned dining in restaurants.
Since late January, more than 2,600 people have been infected in Hong Kong, 20 of whom have died.
"The situation is very worrying," said chief secretary Matthew Cheung, adding that the current outbreak is the most severe the city has experienced.
The measures will be in place for seven days, he said.
Spain wants to rebuild trust after UK drops it from safe travel list
Spain is working on regaining confidence and convincing other countries that its coronavirus outbreak is under control, a minister has said after the UK imposed a quarantine on holidaymakers returning from the country and its islands.
"We know that we are sailing through waters whose maps and characteristics are unknown to us, what we have to do is to regain that confidence and that element of security that is essential for the tourist activity", agriculture minister Luis Planas told Antena 3 TV station.
The Spanish government is trying to convince Britain that it should at least exclude the Balearic and Canary islands, whose infection rates are very low, from the measure.
"I think the situation is under control but obviously there is a risk as in the rest of the European Union and other countries in the world," Mr Planas said, pointing out that Spain was not the only country witnessing a rebound in cases after lifting a lockdown.
Scottish pilot who was Vietnam's most critical patient warns others not to be 'blase' about coronavirus'
A Scottish pilot who was Vietnam's most critically ill Covid-19 patient has warned others not to be "blase" about the risks of the virus.
Stephen Cameron was working for national carrier Vietnam Airlines when he tested positive for the coronavirus in March and went on to become seriously ill, spending 65 days on life support.
The 42-year-old, who became something of a media sensation in Vietnam as one of the country's earliest and most critically ill patients, said the response of the country had been "mind-blowing".
Speaking to BBC News, Mr Cameron, from Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, said the effects of Covid-19 should not be under-estimated.
He added: "I'm a living example of what this virus can do and it is serious.
"People might grumble about having to put on gloves or social distancing two metres apart ... but I contracted it and I was under for 10 weeks on life support.
"People can't be blase about this until we have eradicated it."
Mr Cameron said he was unsure if he would be able to walk again when he came round and was told that at one point he had only a 10% chance of survival.
He added: "When I first woke up I thought was I paralysed? I didn't know if I was paralysed for life, because I couldn't feel my feet."
Mr Cameron said he thought it was "just incredible" that he gained such a following in the south-east Asian country.
He said: "The vast majority of the country knew about 'Patient 91', which was my moniker.
"On the equivalent of the 10 o'clock news they had somebody with my X-rays, my CT scans, my stats and actually talking through them in maybe a five-minute segment.
"I mean, that is a bit mind-blowing, if you think about it."
He added: "When I left the hospital, there were people already queuing up at 8.30am to see me away, which I thought was just incredible.
"When we went through the lobby it must have been about 10-deep with people, everybody had their phones out."
Pilgrims arrive in Mecca for scaled-down Hajj
Muslim pilgrims have started arriving in Mecca for a drastically scaled-down Hajj as Saudi authorities balance the kingdom's oversight of one of Islam's key pillars and the safety of visitors in the face of a global pandemic.
The hajj, which begins on Wednesday, normally draws around 2.5 million people for five intense days of worship in one of the world's largest gatherings of people from around the world.
This year, Saudi Arabia's Hajj Ministry has said between 1,000 and 10,000 people already residing in the kingdom will be allowed to perform the pilgrimage.
Two-thirds of those pilgrims will be from among foreign residents in Saudi Arabia and one-third will be Saudi citizens.
The kingdom has one of the Middle East's largest outbreaks of the coronavirus, with more than 266,000 reported infections, including 2,733 deaths.
Portugal's TAP to resume 40% of flights in September
Portuguese airline TAP has announced it will resume 40 per cent of its pre-coronavirus crisis operations in September, gradually restoring flights after travel demand collapsed in the pandemic.
TAP was forced to suspend almost all flights in April. It started resuming some international operations in May as lockdown measures were slowly lifted but, with little demand, the airline took a step back. It is now giving it another go.
TAP said it had about 500 weekly round-trip flights to various destinations scheduled for August and this was expected to rise to 700 in September.
"The list of routes and flights may be adjusted whenever circumstances require due to the evolution of restrictions in various countries, the pandemic, as well as demand," TAP said.
TAP has incurred heavy losses in recent months, reporting a first-quarter net loss of €395m (£360m).
Muslim women cook free meals for struggling families during Melbourne's second lockdown
A group of Muslim women has come together to feed Melbourne’s most vulnerable people amid the city’s second Covid-19 lockdown.
Lawyers, teachers and healthcare professionals volunteer their time every Friday to cook meals for those struggling to make ends meet during the pandemic.
Afshan Mantoo, chairperson of Muslim Women’s Council of Victoria Inc. and head of the volunteer group, said she hoped the programme would help change attitudes about Muslim women’s participation in Australian society.
“There is a stereotype of women in hijab that they are not doing anything for the community,” Ms Mantoo told SBS Urdu.
“When someone takes food, they say, ‘oh! a Muslim woman is doing something’; it feels good.”
WHO says coronavirus is its worst global health emergency
The new coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 16 million people is easily the worst global health emergency the World Health Organisation (WHO) has faced, its director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
Only with strict adherence to health measures, from wearing masks to avoiding crowds, would the world be able to beat it, Mr Tedros added at a virtual news briefing in Geneva.
"Where these measures are followed, cases go down. Where they are not, cases go up," he said, praising Canada, China, Germany and South Korea for controlling outbreaks
