Coronavirus live news: New Zealand postpones election, Italy closes nightclubs

Australia records deadliest day of pandemic with 25 deaths; UK records 1,000 new Covid cases; France records 3,000 new infections for second day. Follow latest updates

Italy is to shut discos and clubs and make it compulsory to wear a mask outdoors in some areas between 6pm and 6am.

It’s the first reintroduction of restrictions as cases rise, particularly among young people. Cases have double in three weeks and the median age of those affected is now below 40.

New Zealand’s PM is living up to her mantra of “go hard and go early” to contain the country’s growing community-transmiossion coronavirus outbreak, which now stands at 49. Less than a week after the Auckland cluster was discovered, Jacinda Ardern has postponed the country’s election from 19 September to 17 October.

Ardern said the biggest risk to overcome would be ensuring 25,000 election workers were well-protected as they go about their work.

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