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Coronavirus latest: at a glance

Key developments in the global coronavirus outbreak today include:

UK PM faces increasing pressure from allies to sack aide

Dozens of MPs from the ruling Conservative party demand the removal of the prime minister’s chief aide, Dominic Cummings, after he insisted he did not regret breaching the government-ordered lockdown.

A junior minister resigns, while the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, a former chief whip and a former attorney general are among the Tory MPs to publicly call for Cummings to leave his Downing Street post.

Putin claims Russia past peak despite highest daily death toll

Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, says the country has passed its peak of infections on the same day the country records its highest daily death toll. After peaking in mid-May at more than 11,000 new cases a day, the number of daily infections in Russia has dropped to fewer than 9,000.

On Tuesday, the country reported its highest daily death toll of 174 – a number still far lower than in countries with similar rates of infections.

Excess UK deaths in Covid-19 outbreak approach 60,000

The number of excess deaths registered in the UK during the Covid-19 outbreak is almost 60,000, figures show, underlining Britain’s status as one of the worst-hit countries in Europe.

The Office for National Statistics said on Tuesday there had been 53,960 excess deaths in England and Wales from the start of the outbreak to 15 May.

There were 4,210 deaths involving Covid-19 registered in England and Wales in the week ending 15 May, the fewest since the week ending 3 April.

Spain declares 10 days of mourning

The Spanish government declares 10 days of mourning starting on Wednesday for the nearly 27,000 people who have died in the country. It is the longest official mourning period in the country’s four-decade-old democracy.

Flags will be flown at half-mast in more than 14,000 public buildings across the country and on Spanish naval vessels until 5 June.

Merkel losing control of Germany’s lockdown

Control over Germany’s lockdown measures is increasingly slipping from Angela Merkel’s grasp as more federal states announce unilateral steps to loosen restrictions, creating a patchwork of wildly varying rules on social distancing within the country.

Winfried Kretschmann, the premier of Baden-Württemberg, announces his state will allow seated public events with up to 100 people from 1 June, adding that there are no plans for further talks on coordinating the responses of Germany’s 16 states.

Hungary plans to end PM’s rule by decree

A state of emergency introduced in Hungary to tackle its epidemic is to be lifted on 20 June, the country’s justice minister says, potentially bringing to an end Viktor Orbán’s controversial power to rule by decree.

In late March, Hungary’s parliament gave Orbán, the country’s rightwing prime minister, the right to rule by decree indefinitely as part of a package of measures aimed at fighting the epidemic.

Spain seeks greatest possible amount from EU emergency fund

Spain will ask for the maximum in transfers from the European Union’s pandemic emergency funds, a spokeswoman for its government, says.

“We will keep fighting so that the transfers are the largest possible and so it doesn’t mean debt for Spain’s government,” Maria Jesús Montero tells a news conference following the weekly cabinet meeting.

Confirmed cases worldwide exceed 5.5m

According to the Johns Hopkins University pandemic tracker, known infections worldwide number at least 5,534,728. The known global death toll stands at 347,587. True death tolls and cases are likely to be significantly higher due to differing definitions and testing rates, delays and suspected underreporting.