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Coronavirus live news: Donald Trump ‘no longer transmission risk’; Victoria to ease lockdown

Coronavirus live news: Donald Trump ‘no longer transmission risk’; Victoria to ease lockdown

Doctor says president not replicating virus, but no word on whether he has tested negative; Europe records 100,000 daily cases for first time; India cases pass 7m. Follow latest updates

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Australian prime minister Scott Morrison has confirmed the country will move “very cautiously” to reopen quarantine-free travel with a “handful” of countries, raising the prospect Europe and the United States will be excluded until 2022 unless a Covid vaccine is available.

Morrison made the comments at a doorstop in Redbank, campaigning with Queensland’s Liberal National party leader, Deb Frecklington, and targeting the Labor premier Annastacia Palaszczuk over the state’s reluctance to remove its state border travel ban.

Related: Scott Morrison casts gloom on Australia’s prospects for quarantine-free travel with Europe and US

Fans of BTS tuned in to an online concert by the K-pop boyband on Saturday, holding their signature light sticks and sharing messages in a chatroom, Reuters reports.

Titled “Map of The Soul ON:E,” the virtual event came after the seven-member group scrapped its initial plan to hold an in-person show for a limited audience, in line with the South Korean government’s tightened social distancing curbs. The band had already cancelled planned world tours.

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