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12.05am BST
Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s continuing live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, with me, Alison Rourke.
France and Italy have recorded new post-lockdown record infections. Public Health France said it there had been 5,429 new infections, after 3,304 on Tuesday. The daily figure has topped 4,000 several times in recent days, ahead of the 1 September return to school for millions of pupils.