The Guardian: Coronavirus live news: US bars travel from Brazil as British PM’s adviser reported to police over lockdown breach

Boris Johnson backs Dominic Cummings despite outcry; France sees lowest daily cases and deaths since lockdown; India resumes domestic flights. Follow the latest updates

• US bars travellers who have been in Brazil in last two weeks
• Dominic Cummings facing possible police investigation as pressure mounts
  
• Johnson’s defence of Cummings sparks anger from allies and opponents
• Australia coronavirus – live
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1.38am BST

Japan is considering a fresh stimulus package worth over $929bn that will consist mostly of financial aid programmes for companies hit by the coronavirus pandemic, the Nikkei newspaper said on Monday.

The package, to be funded by a second extra budget for the current fiscal year beginning in April, would follow a record $1.1tn spending plan deployed last month to cushion the economic blow from the pandemic, reports Reuters.

1.23am BST

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has repeatedly urged Virginia residents to cover their faces in public during the coronavirus pandemic. On Friday, he told reporters wearing a mask “could literally save someone else’s life”.

But the Democrat did not heed his own advice on Saturday, when he posed without a mask for photographs with residents during a visit to the Virginia Beach Oceanfront.

Related: Virginia governor Ralph Northam says masks save lives – then doesn't wear one

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