Matt Hancock has said England is “clearly on track” to relax more lockdown measures around early July. The health secretary said changes will be set out later this week.
Meanwhile, the UK saw its coronavirus death toll rise by 43 – although Scotland and Northern Ireland reported no new deaths.
British tourists can now go to Spain without having to self-isolate for two weeks on arrival, after the country lifted its quarantine rules for people coming from the UK. However, as it stands, people would have to quarantine for 14 days on their return home.
In the US, Donald Trump claimed he had asked officials to slow down coronavirus testing to avoid keep finding more infections.
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Holidays in Spain
British travellers can now enter Spain with no need to self-isolate for 14 days, our travel correspondent Simon Calder reports.
But UK visitors to the mainland, Balearic and Canary Islands will be going against current Foreign Office travel advice – and must spend two weeks in self-isolation when they return home.
With new coronavirus cases very low, Spain is lifting quarantine for all European visitors from today.
'Slow the testing down please'
Donald Trump told supporters at his rally he asked for the rate of coronavirus testing to be slowed down because there were so many positive cases being found in the US.
The president suggested that the reason the US is leading the world in the number of infections and deaths is because so much testing has been done.
"When you do testing to that extent, you're going to find more people, you're going to find more cases. So I said to my people, slow the testing down please," Mr Trump said.
Phil Thomas has the full story:
Health secretary says 'on track' to ease lockdown measures
Matt Hancock has said we are "clearly on track" to relax more lockdown measures on 4 July.
"We're on plan, we will of course be setting out more details of that plan and in the plan it states that on around 4 July we will take further measures if it's safe to do so," the health secretary told Sky's Sophy Ridge On Sunday.
"We talk about hospitality and outdoor hospitality in that plan but there are a whole series of other services especially where you need to be physically close to someone to carry it out like a haircut - a lot of the country does need a haircut."
Pressed if that could mean haircuts resuming on 4 July, he said: "I'm not going to rule that out. We'll set out the details as soon as we can."
'At least we're going to survive'
Yotam Ottolenghi, a chef and restaurant owner, said relaxing the two-metre social distancing rule to one metre is "really vital" to the industry.
"It makes the whole operation viable to a degree," he told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday.
"I don’t think anyone is going to be making money with the one-metre rule, but at least we are going to survive."
Health secretary says 'how open a country we are' may impact UK coronavirus crisis
Matt Hancock cited the UK's openness to the world when asked about suggestions the UK would have a higher death toll, longer lockdown and worse economic hit than other nations.
He told Sky's Sophy Ridge On Sunday: "There's lots of potential reasons for that including just how open a country we are and the amount of engagement we have around the world.
"But naturally you would expect that I focus and spend all of my time focusing on the future and what we do next to get the economy open as much as safely possible and make sure we keep the virus down."
Additional reporting by Press Association
Will we have to register to go to the pub?
Matt Hancock said people may have to register before going to the pub when the lockdown is eased.
Asked on Sky's Sophy Ridge On Sunday about plans for registration and ordering drinks through apps, he said: "That's the sort of thing we're looking at for how do you make it safe to open things."
Pressed on registering before a pub, he said: "I wouldn't rule that it out, it isn't a decision we've taken yet, but there are other countries in the world that take that approach."
Here is Rich Booth's report on what pubs may look like when they reopen:
Schools targets
Labour's Rachel Reeves has said the government has "failed in the committments" they made over school reopenings.
She told Sky News's Sophy Ridge On Sunday: "I would like to see more children return to school safely, but the truth is the government have failed in the commitments that they made to parents and to the country which was to return all primary school children to school safely before the summer holidays."
The shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster said: "Frankly I don't know what the Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has been doing for the last three months because he should have been using this period of lockdown to prepare schools to ensure that the space is available, because many schools are cramped, particularly in inner city areas."
More than 1,000 new Covid-19 deaths in Brazil
Brazil has added 1,000 more deaths to its total.
Nearly 50,000 people have died from the coronavirus in Brazil, with 1,022 fatalities in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said on Saturday.
Only the US has recorded more deaths and cases.
Additional reporting by Reuters
Coronavirus on Easter Island
Covid-19 held the potential to overwhelm Easter Island, one of the world’s most remote inhabited territories, Samuel Lovett writes.
The presence of seven active cases was more than enough to kickstart a serious outbreak. Yet there was to be no catastrophe.
How was one avoided?
Jurgen Klopp condemns UK government’s response to coronavirus
“From a personal point of view, I don’t understand why we started wearing face masks in closed areas on 15 June when five or six weeks ago all the other countries were doing it,” the Liverpool manager said.
"When I go to the petrol station in England, I am the only one wearing a face mask and I’m the only one with gloves – I feel like an alien," he added. "I will not stop doing that until someone tells me it’s over."
Jack de Menezes reports ahead of the Liverpool's match against Merseyside rivals Everton:
Lockdown changes
Matt Hancock has said a further relaxation of the coronavirus lockdown will be set out later this week, with ministers also set to ease the two-metre social distancing guidelines, our politicial correspondent Ashley Cowburn reports.
Insisting the strategy to curb the spread of coronavirus was “working”, the health secretary said the government was “on track” to reopen businesses in the hospitality industry, including pubs and restaurants, by 4 July.
Appearing on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Mr Hancock said: “I think we are about to see another step in the plan and this week we will announce further details of the measures that we can take to relieve some of the national lockdown measures at the start of July.”
Health secretary says sorry for patting colleague on back
Matt Hancock has apologised for breaching social distancing rules by approaching a colleague in the House of Commons and patting his back.
"It was just totally natural. This shows how difficult social distancing is," the health secretary told The Andrew Marr Show on the BBC.
"I know these rules inside out and I haven't seen my colleague for weeks and I really like him."
He added: "All I can do is say I'm incredibly sorry for this momentary breach."
Here is a refresher on what happened:
Matt Hancock filmed failing to social distance in Commons
European visitors arrive in Spain
Passengers wearing masks and wheeling suitcases arrived at Madrid's main airport today as Spain opened its borders to most European countries.
The country's borders are now open to all EU nations except Portugal, as well as Schengen Area members outside the bloc and Britain.
Spaniards were also allowed to move freely around the country from Sunday and many were expected to visit friends, relatives and second homes in other regions.
Additional reporting by Reuters
Father's Day
Since the first UK case was identified in January, the country has seen thousands of families lose mothers, fathers, siblings, friends, and other relatives to the deadly virus.
Sophie Gallagher spoke to three Brits who have lost their dads to coronavirus about this Father's Day in this heartbreaking piece.
South Korea records nearly 50 more infections
South Korea has reported 48 new cases of coronavirus as health authorities struggle to contain a resurgence that is erasing some of the country's hard-won gains against the virus.
Officials said 24 of the new cases came from the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area, which have been the centre of the country's outbreak since late May.
Ten others were reported in the central city of Daejeon, indicating that the virus was beginning to spread more broadly, apparently as a result of increased public activity and complacency in social distancing.
While some experts say the country should reimpose stronger social distancing guidelines after easing them in mid-April, officials have been reluctant to do so over concerns of hurting an already fragile economy.
Additional reporting by Associated Press
Pantomimes 'won't happen' this year, theatre director says
Pantomime season "won't happen" over Christmas because of the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic, according to theatre director Sir Nicholas Hytner.
Sir Nicholas said the entire arts sector is "on the brink of ruin" because even the one-metre social distancing rule would not be enough to keep the industry financially stable.
Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, he also said the industry needs "unprecedented and immediate" investment which would enable performers to find a way to work.
Additional reporting by Press Association
Tory London mayoral candidate says people are social distancing in capital
Shaun Bailey, the Conservative Party candidate for the 2021 London mayoral election, said people in the capital have taken social distancing "very seriously".
He told Sky News's Sophy Ridge On Sunday: "We're at that very strange tipping point where we do want to get our economy back up and running so we're asking people to move around safely and I think some of that is what you're observing."
He added: "I think we could see a spike in cases anyway. If you look at pandemics historically there's always been a second wave. I believe we need to prepare ourselves for a second wave, but again we still also need to look at how do we start to get the country moving again?
"Because one thing we know for sure, second wave or not, our economy absolutely needs to start moving."
Additional reporting by Press Association
International Day of Yoga
Anyone else turned to yoga in lockdown?
Olivia Petter looks at the best teachers to follow on International Day of Yoga.
Air travel in Bangladesh
Bangladesh's state-run airline resumed international flights on Sunday after a suspension of more than two months due to the coronavirus.
Tahera Khandaker, a spokesperson for Biman Bangladesh Airlines, said a flight carrying 187 passengers left Dhaka for London on Sunday afternoon.
She said a scheduled flight will leave Dhaka every week on Sundays and another will depart London for Dhaka on Mondays.
Bangladesh has confirmed 112,306 cases of the virus, including 1,464 deaths.
Additional reporting by Associated Press
