Article 58H0V Coronavirus live news: Spain passes 700,000 cases as Madrid braces for 'tough weeks ahead'

Coronavirus live news: Spain passes 700,000 cases as Madrid braces for 'tough weeks ahead'

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Jessica Murray (now); Lucy Campbell, Haroon Siddiq
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Daily deaths in Spain at highest level since early May; Portugal to extend restrictions; Netherlands hits record of 2,544 daily cases; 1,136 new infections in Poland

10.50pm BST

The French government may be pushing for people to download its Covid-19 contact-tracing app, but when asked whether he had done so, prime minister Jean Castex said he had not because he does not take the metro.

The app was launched at the start of June to much fanfare from the government, but three months later only 2.4 million people out of a 67 million population have downloaded it

10.25pm BST

Brazil has recorded 32,817 additional confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, and 831 deaths from the disease.

South America's largest country has registered more than 4.6 million cases of the virus since the pandemic began, according to ministry data, ranking it as the third worst outbreak in the world after the US and India.

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