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Hello and welcome to today’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic with me, Helen Sullivan.
Europe passed the grim milestone of one million coronavirus deaths on Monday, as the World Health Organization warned that infections are rising exponentially despite widespread efforts aimed at stopping them.