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10.44pm BST

Brazil registered 43,520 new cases of Covid-19 on Sunday, reaching a total of 16.5 million cases.

The country, which has the world's second largest number of Covid-19 deaths, registered 874 new deaths, raising the total to 461,931.

10.41pm BST

German health ministers are to discuss fines for cheating at coronavirus test centres.

Since allegations of fraud at several providers were made public earlier this week and Spahn said on Saturday that there will be stricter controls, a debate has started on how to control the test centres and who should be in charge.

Where cheating takes place, everyone must know that this can by punished quite severely.

This message must also be sent out from the state, that such controls will be enforced and then the appropriate legal consequences will follow.