Nicola Sturgeon is shortly to set out plans for the lifting of most legal Covid-19 restrictions in Scotland.
Social distancing rules are expected to be relaxed, but face coverings in shops and public transport will remain mandatory.
Meanwhile, a proposal to create an "amber watchlist" of travel destinations has been abandoned by the UK government.
It would have warned people when a country was at risk of a sudden shift to the more-restricted red list.
Tim Alderslade, chief executive of the air travel industry body Airlines UK, says it is a "victory for common sense"
Deaths in the UK mentioning Covid-19 on the death certificate rose by 46% in the week to 23 July, the Office for National Statistics says.
Qantas says it will stand down 2,500 staff as a lockdown in Sydney impacts air travel across Australia.
Authorities in the Chinese city of Wuhan will begin testing its entire population, after some coronavirus cases were found.
Germany has said it will begin offering third jabs to elderly and at-risk groups in an effort to increase immunity to more infectious mutations of the virus.
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