Coronavirus live news: Brazil records nearly 600 deaths; Victoria goes 30 days without new cases

Brazil records nearly 52,000 daily new cases; more than 150 arrested in UK anti-lockdown protests; Australian state of Victoria records no new cases and no deathsUK: Angry Tory MPs turn on Gove after ‘overwhelmed NHS’ claims Shops reopen in France as national lockdown eases Australia’s Covid vaccines: everything you need to know Melbourne emerges to a season of hope and relief 9.20am GMT Stringent new coronavirus restrictions in the UK, which will come into operation when the current national lockdown ends on December 2, are necessary to “bear down” on the pandemic but tiers will be downgraded in areas where the virus is in retreat, Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary has said this morning. Speaking on Sky’s Sophy Ridge On Sunday, Raab said:The reality is that we want to come out of national lockdown and stay out of it.There is hope and there is light at the end of the tunnel at the prospect of regulatory approval of the vaccine being ready to be in place and distributed by the spring, which will allow a real step-change back to life resembling normal.Where you’ve got low levels in a particular area but it’s surrounded by areas others with higher levels...If you don’t apply on a wider levels - which is why we’re using the countywide basis - the same restrictions, all that happens is the virus in those lower levels... goes up exponentially. 8.54am GMT Russia reported 26,683 new coronavirus cases on Sunday after the number of daily confirmed infections hit a record 27,543 on Friday.The new cases took the national total to 2,269,316 since the start of the pandemic.The coronavirus crisis center confirmed deaths of 459 coronavirus patients in the last 24 hours, lifting the Russian death toll to 39,527. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/nov/29/coronavirus-live-news-brazil-records-nearly-600-deaths-victoria-goes-30-days-without-new-cases #coronavirus #australia_news #infectious_diseases