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Children should be tested for coronavirus every week when they return to school in September.

It comes as the UK’s official coronavirus daily death count could be scrapped following an investigation into Public Health England’s method of counting the toll.

Ninety-seven thousand US children tested positive for coronavirus in the second half of July - weeks before schools and universities reopen.

The Red Cross has sent more than 43,000 volunteers to North Korea, including to the locked-down city of Kaesong, to help fight the novel coronavirus and provide flood assistance, an official with the relief organisation said on Monday.

Germany has reported 436 new coronavirus cases and one new death.

The Health Minister said that the number of travel-related cases in Ireland remains small but added that the risk is increasing.

The UK’s official coronavirus daily death count could be scrapped following an investigation into Public Health England’s method of counting the toll, it has been claimed.

Brazil reported 23,010 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 572 deaths from the disease caused by the virus in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Sunday.

Brazil has registered 3,035,422 cases of the virus since the pandemic began, and the official death toll from COVID-19 has risen to 101,049, according to ministry data.

The number of new confirmed coronavirus cases in the 24 hours up to 9am on Sunday rose to 1,063, compared with 744 on the previous Sunday, although that could be because of increased testing after a series of spikes causing local lockdowns in Greater Manchester, and parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire.

The Government said 46,574 people had died in hospitals, care homes and the wider community after testing positive for coronavirus in the UK, as of 5pm on Saturday, up by eight from the day before.

The UK’s official COVID-19 daily death count could be scrapped following an investigation into Public Health England’s method of counting the toll, The Telegraph newspaper reported.

The conclusions of the investigation, which was ordered by Health Secretary Matt Hancock after it emerged officials were “exaggerating” virus deaths, are expected this week, the newspaper said.

One recommendation could be to move to a weekly official death toll instead, a government source told the Telegraph.

Two members of Atletico Madrid’s group set to travel to Portugal for the Champions League quarter-finals have tested positive for COVID-19, the La Liga club said on Sunday.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Sunday reported 4,974,959 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 54,590 cases from its previous count, and said that the number of deaths had risen by 1,064 to 161,284.

There are 68 new confirmed cases of Covid-19, according to the National Public Health Emergency Team, bringing the total number of Irish infections to 26,712.

The government today confirmed 1,062 positive Covid-19 cases in Britain, the highest increase since June.

Another eight deaths were also reported, taking the total to 46,574.

The UK’s official coronavirus death toll has risen to 46,574 after eight more patients died in all settings.

More than 1,000 new positive cases of Covid-19 were also confirmed in the past 24 hours.

Saudi Arabia will soon begin Phase III clinical trials on around 5,000 people for a Covid-19 vaccine developed by China’s CanSino Biologics Inc, a Saudi health ministry spokesman said on Sunday.

Scotland has recorded 48 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, as the number of positive tests nears 19,000.

As of Sunday there were 28,340 people tested for Covid-19 in the last week with 322 of those positive.

Public Health Wales said no further deaths have been recorded where people died after testing positive for Covid-19, so the total number of deaths in the country remains at 1,579.

A further 10 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospital in England, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals to 29,411, NHS England said on Sunday.

Two deaths were reported with no positive Covid-19 test result.

The region with the highest number of deaths was the Midlands with four.

On Sunday, a further 10 deaths by Covid-19 were reported in hospitals in England

On Sunday, a further 10 deaths by Covid-19 were reported in hospitals in England