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And if you are just joining us in the UK here is what you may have missed.

The chief regulator of exams watchdog Ofqual has resigned following the chaos which surrounded this year's A-level, GCSE and BTec results.

Sally Collier quit after thousands of students were downgraded by a computer algorithm, which led to accusations of pupils in more deprived areas being treated unfairly. It also led to many A-level students losing university places they had been offered, and a crunch on degree places.

In other news:

• Pressure is growing for the government to recommend face coverings in communal areas of schools when term time begins next month. Labour has called for England to follow Scotland's lead but Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the government will follow the science and currently does not recommend their use
• From Monday Scottish secondary pupils will have to wear coverings when they are in the corridors and in other shared spaces, the Education Minister John Swinney anounced. Wales is to make a decision on the matter on Wednesday
• The Eat Out To Help Out scheme has contributed to the cost of 64 million meals since it was introduced at the beginning of August. Chancellor RIshi Sunak said it was helping to protect nearly two million jobs
• And the first case of coronavirus in the UK may have been in Nottinghamshire rather than Surrey, scientists believe. The first person infected is thought to be a 75-year-old woman who had the disease on 21 February

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We'll be bringing our live coverage to a close shortly. Here are some of the headlines from around the world from the day:

• The University of Alabama in the US has reported 566 cases of Covid-19 since classes resumed a week ago. More than 20,000 students returned to the university, where in-person classes are held, in the past week for the first time since spring break in March
• There has been a sharp rise in cases in India’s capital Delhi, up by more than a quarter over the previous week, according to the latest data. More than 9,000 positive cases were recorded in the week from 18 August to 24 August, up from just over 7,200 the previous week
• Argentina has reported a record 8,713 new cases and 381 deaths over 24 hours. While quarantine measures have been tightened in Buenos Aires, officials have warned cases were now increasing in other regions
• A woman in Australia has been jailed for six months for breaching quarantine. The 28-year-old woman had been allowed to fly back to western Australia from the heavily affected Victoria region but failed to quarantine in a hotel for 14 days
• In South Korea schools in Seoul have been closed until 11 September after a rise in Covid-19 cases. Nearly 200 pupils and staff have been infected in two weeks

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The EU's trade commissioner has said he broke no public health regulations while in Ireland despite attending a golf dinner with 80 other guests.

Phil Hogan has provided 20 pages of documents to the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen after she requested further details about his trip home earlier this month.

Mr Hogan was among the guests at a controversial golf dinner in the west of Ireland.

He returned to the Republic on 31 July and was required to restrict his movements for 14 days.

In a document published on the European Commission website, external, Mr Hogan said he tested negative for Covid-19 while in hospital for treatment on 5 August which he said "ended the self-restriction period".

Mr Hogan told Irish broadcaster RTÉ: "I am satisfied arising from the test that I did that proved it was negative that I was no risk to anybody."

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The top doctor at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has apologised for overstating the benefits of patients blood plasma in the treatment of Covid-19.

FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn came under fire after his agency on Sunday gave emergency authorisation to use convalescent plasma on coronavirus patients.

Echoing President Donald Trump, Mr Hahn touted the treatment as life-saving.

But scientists quickly questioned the data provided by Mr Hahn, who suggested plasma could reduce deaths by 35% - a claim which grossly exaggerated preliminary findings from a clinic at the Mayo Clinic.

Mr Hahn told CBS News he could have "done a better job" of explaining what the data shows.

He maintained that the decision to authorise the treatment for emergency use was made by FDA career scientists, "based upon sound science and data".

Mr Hahn has faced criticism for appearing to play politics, backing the Trump administration amid its push for a breakthrough treatment of Covid-19 in the run-up to the presidential election on 3 November.

The plasma announcement came a day after Mr Trump accused the FDA of impeding the rollout of vaccines and therapeutics for political reasons.

Read the full story here.

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The Netherlands has seen a slight drop in the number of coronavirus cases in the past week - down by 425 from 4,013 to 3,588 compared with the previous week, according to the RIVM public health institute.

But a quarter of new cases involved people who had returned from abroad. Some 867 who returned tested positive in the past week, mainly from France (161) and Spain (278), Dutch media report.

Meanwhile, hospital admissions in the country have gone up sharply, from 50 last week to 84 in the past seven days, Dutch media report. The number of deaths has also doubled from 16 to 32.

At the beginning of the month, PM Mark Rutte said the virus was rising at a dangerous rate.

According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, external, the Netherlands still has among the highest infection rates in Europe per 100,000 people (currently 45), reports the BBC's Anna Holligan in The Hague.

A further 16 deaths of people who tested positive for Covid-19 within 28 days of dying have been recorded in the UK.

It takes the total number of deaths which have been linked to coronavirus in the country to 41,449.

There were a further 1,184 new cases reported in the previous 24 hours, official figures showed on Tuesday. It takes total cases to 327,798.

Mexico City's famous "floating gardens" which had been closed to tourists because of the pandemic have now reopened after a five-month coronavirus shutdown.

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They feature the city's iconic trajineras boats which can be found at the Nativitas canal pier in Xochimilco, in a network of canals and floating gardens, originally built by the Aztecs.

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The boats were thoroughly disinfected ahead of reopening to visitors at the weekend. But coronavirus restrictions mean numbers are now limited and face masks are compulsory.

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Mexico has been hit hard by the pandemic, recording the world's third highest death toll. It has more than 560,000 cases of the virus and more than 60,000 deaths.

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Some 3,700 Swedes were told they had Covid, but it then turned out the results were wrong, external.

Sweden's Public Health Agency said on Tuesday that faulty PCR test kits had returned some 3,700 false positive results back in March.

Mostly "people who had mild symptoms or who didn't feel any symptoms at the time of the test received false positive results", the agency said in a statement.

The agency added it would contact those affected this week and adjust Sweden's official number of cases.

The error was discovered by two laboratories during routine quality controls.

The agency said the kits were made by a company in China and had been distributed worldwide. It says it has alerted the World Health Organization.

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Virgin Atlantic has won backing from its creditors for a £1.2bn rescue plan that will secure its future for at least the next 18 months.

The airline said shareholders, banks, aircraft owners and suppliers owed money had approved the plan.

Virgin Atlantic said "this milestone" puts it in a position to "rebuild its balance sheet" and "welcome passengers back".

It had warned it would run out of cash by September without the deal.

Like other airlines, Virgin Atlantic's finances have been hit hard by the collapse in air travel due to the pandemic.

It is cutting 3,500 staff, but the airline has said the remaining 6,500 jobs should be secure.

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More than 64 millions meals have been served up as part of the chancellor's Eat Out to Help Out discount scheme, according to the Treasury.

The scheme offers diners up to £10 off their meals when they eat in restaurants, cafes and pubs between Monday and Wednesday in a bid to boost the pandemic hit hospitality sector.

Data from OpenTable shows that during Eat Out to Help Out’s third week the number of customers at UK restaurants was 61% higher than the same days last year on average for Monday to Wednesday.

Eat Out to Help Out is due to finish at the end of the month and has seen 87,000 claims made by businesses.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak said: "Today’s figures continue to show that Brits are backing hospitality – with more than 64 million meals discounted so far, that’s equivalent to nearly every person in the country dining out to protect jobs.

"This scheme has reminded us how much we love to dine out, and in doing so, how this is helping to protect the jobs of nearly 2 million people who work in hospitality."

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India’s capital Delhi has seen coronavirus cases rise by more than a quarter over the previous week, according to the latest data.

More than 9,000 positive cases were recorded in the week from 18 August to 24 August, up from just over 7,200 the previous week.

There’s been little change in testing numbers since the start of August so that would not account for the increase.

The proportion of positive cases has also risen - from 5.8% up to 7.8% over those two weeks.

This figure went as high as 31% in mid-June, and then dropped to 5.7% in July and is now seeing a rise again.

Delhi has one of the highest testing rates in India, and has done nearly 76,000 tests per million people, much higher than the national average of just under 27,000 per million.

There’s more about India’s testing programme here.

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Labour has called for face coverings to be used in communal areas of secondary schools in England.

Shadow education secretary Kate Green said: "There is a growing body of evidence that the use of face masks in communal areas in secondary schools helps protect students and staff and drive down transmission.

"The prime minister must listen to this evidence and act quickly to give certainty to parents and teachers who are just days away from schools reopening."

It comes after Scotland announced that pupils will have to cover their faces in corridors and on school transport from Monday.

In Wales, the government has said it will review the use of face coverings in school with a decision expected to be made on Wednesday.

Health Minister Vaughan Gething said it is important that any decisions are "proportionate" and "appropriate to their setting, and local population".

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Despite the challenges posed by the pandemic and the economic crisis that followed, some Americans have managed to improve their finances, according to a new poll.

Some 45% of Americans said they had managed to set more money aside than usual, while 26% were paying back debt faster than they had been before the pandemic, the poll conducted by The Associated Press (AP)-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research , externalfound.

In total, about half of Americans say they’ve either saved more or paid back debt since the outbreak began.

Health fears and compulsory closures meant many Americans have gone out less and as a result spent less on meals out, clothes and travel.

Meanwhile, nearly 13 million people have lost a job, AP reports, and more than 28 million people - nearly one fifth of the American workforce - were collecting some form of unemployment payment in the week ending 1 August.

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Here is some more on that breaking story we brought you earlier.

As we reported, Ofqual chief Sally Collier has resigned amid criticism for the part the exams regulator played in the A-levels and GCSEs results chaos.

Former chief regulator Dame Glenys Stacey has been asked to take up the role temporarily, having previously held the position between 2011 and 2016.

Ofqual said it had agreed temporary support arrangements with Ofsted to support ongoing work with GCSEs, A-levels and vocational qualifications, including autumn exams and the appeals process.

In a statement Ofqual said: "The chief regulator Sally Collier has decided that the next stage of the awarding process would be better overseen by new leadership. The Ofqual board supports Sally in this decision, and thanks her for her leadership and service over the past four years, which has included overseeing the successful introduction of an entirely new set of GCSEs and A-levels, and a new grading system."

Roger Taylor remains the chair of the watchdog and a new committee of the Ofqual board is being formed to oversee its work until the end of the year. This will be led by Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman, who previously worked at Ofqual.

"Taken together these arrangements will ensure that Ofqual has the extra capacity, support and oversight it needs both to tackle the remaining issues from this year's awarding process and to ensure that next year's arrangements command public confidence," the statement said.

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Scientists believe they have traced the first UK coronavirus case to a woman in Nottinghamshire.

Analysis of samples by the University of Nottingham showed a 75-year-old woman, from Nottinghamshire, tested positive on 21 February.

A Surrey resident was previously believed to have caught the virus first.

The woman is also understood to be first in the UK to die after contracting Covid-19.

News of the case has emerged only now, because samples were being analysed in retrospect by researchers as they investigated the origins of the UK pandemic.

Read more here.

Five patients in a cancer ward at Craigavon Hospital in Northern Ireland have tested positive for Covid-19.

Infection control experts have been at the hospital site today and families of the patients are being contacted by the Southern Health Trust, which runs the hospital.

The ward has been closed to new admissions. A member of staff on the haematology ward is also affected and others have been sent home to self-isolate.

It is the second confirmed outbreak at the hospital, with staff in the respiratory emergency department also testing positive.

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A cruise operator has extended a suspension of its services until March amid the coronavirus pandemic.

It means Southampton-based Cunard, which is part of the Carnival group, will have paused operations for an entire year.

Its three ships began to sail back to Southampton in March when it halted all of its cruises.

Cunard president Simon Palethorpe said: "We are so sorry to all those guests who were due to sail on any of the cancelled voyages and for the disappointment this news will cause.

"After very careful consideration and reviewing the latest guidance, we simply do not feel it would be sensible to start sailing again with our current schedule so we have reviewed future itineraries."

In May Carnival UK announced plans to cut 450 jobs across Cunard and P&O Cruises, to "ensure the future sustainability" of the business.

"Ghost" cruise ships have become something of a tourist attraction as they stand anchored off the coast. Read more here.

Scotland is making it compulsory for school pupils to wear face coverings in communal areas from Monday – and there are signs that other parts of the UK may follow suit.

But what do students think about it? The BBC visited a Scottish school where some students had voluntarily been wearing masks to find out.

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Dr Anthony Fauci, the top US virus expert, has warned against rushing out a Covid-19 vaccine before it has been proven to be safe and effective.

Speaking to Reuters news agency, he said doing so could hurt the development of other vaccines. It comes as US President Donald Trump is reportedly considering plans to put out a vaccine before it has been fully tested.

"The one thing that you would not want to see with a vaccine is getting an EUA [emergency use authorisation] before you have a signal of efficacy," Dr Fauci said.

"One of the potential dangers if you prematurely let a vaccine out is that it would make it difficult, if not impossible, for the other vaccines to enrol people in their trial.

"To me, it's absolutely paramount that you definitively show that a vaccine is safe and effective," he added.

Read more on this story here.