By Damien Gayle (now); Simon Burnton, Martin Farrer and Helen Sullivan (earlier)
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11.13am BST
This is Damien Gayle taking over the live blog now.
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11.03am BST
Germany will continue to warn against non-essential travel to Britain while the UK maintains its 14-day quarantine rules, despite removing curbs for travel to the rest of Europe.
Speaking a press conference on Wednesday morning, the German foreign minister, Heiko Maas, said his government would scrap general travel warnings for 30 countries including Britain from 15 June, replacing it with daily travel advice for each country that reflects the current development of the pandemic.
