What did we learn from UK government briefing?

Today’s UK government briefing has now finished - if you're just

catching up here's a quick summary:

 Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announces a £250m

emergency fund for improvements to cycling and walking
infrastructure

 It means pop-up bike lanes, wider pavements, safer

junctions, and cycle and bus-only corridors will be created in
England within weeks

 Trials of e-scooters will also be fast-tracked and rental

schemes extended from four local authorities to every region
who wants them

 He would not confirm a 14-day quarantine for passengers

arriving in the UK

 A further 346 people in the UK have died after testing

positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of deaths
recorded to 31,587

 The government has missed its target of 100,000 coronavirus

tests a day for the seventh day in a row

 Shapps urged people to stay at home over the bank holiday

weekend - stressing that government guidance had not changed

 He said emerging from the pandemic will be a "gradual

process" and the government will be proceeding with "extreme
caution", ahead of a statement from the PM on the next steps
tomorrow night

Spain’s PM urges caution before lockdown easing

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has called on people to
exercise “total caution” ahead of a partial relaxation of the
country’s lockdown.

More than half of the country, about 23 million people, will start
“phase one” of the strategy to ease nationwide social-distancing
measures on Monday.
Restaurants and bars will be able to serve people outdoors, non-
essential shops will be allowed to open and gatherings of up to 10
people will be permitted.

But, in places where the lockdown is loosened, people should

“take precautions as if they were infected”, Sanchez said.

“The virus has not disappeared. It is still on the prowl,” Sanchez

warned in a TV address on Saturday.

Spain’s number of coronavirus-related deaths jumped by 179 to

26,478 on Saturday, the lowest daily rise since mid-March.

The country has reported more than 220,000 coronavirus

infections to date, the second-highest in the world after the US.