Coronavirus live news: 6m Australians download tracing app as experts fear second wave in US summer

New witnesses cast doubt on Cummings’s lockdown claims; Trump golfs in Virginia; WHO says pandemic ‘taking different pathway’ in Africa. Follow the latest updates

The US has recorded 1,127 deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to AFP, citing Johns Hopkins figures.

The current US total is 97,048, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker.

#BREAKING US adds 1,127 #coronavirus deaths in 24 hours: Johns Hopkins pic.twitter.com/Xl4oNXEnMm

More on the wage subsidy scheme in Australia. So far, the government has not given any indication it is planning to extend the scheme to excluded workers, such as casuals employed for less than a year, university and local government staff, temporary visa holders and employees of foreign-owned companies.

However, a scheduled review in June may look at tweaks to the scheme, including the potential to extend targeted support to the worst-affected sectors beyond the expiry in September.

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