The UK’s official coronavirus death toll has passed 58,000, with a further 479 fatalities reported on Saturday.

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Italy has reported 686 coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours, down from 827 on Friday, and 26,323 new infections, down from 28,352, the country’s health ministry has said.

The country has so far recorded 54,363 Covid-19 fatalities since its outbreak first emerged in February, putting it among the worst-hit countries in Europe.

More details on the arrests in London today can be found below as they come in:

More than 60 people have been arrested in London today amid an anti-lockdown protest in the capital, the Metropolitan Police has said.

“These [arrests] were for a number of different offences, including breaching coronavirus restrictions,” police said in a statement.

“We expect this number to rise.”

The UK is set to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine next week, with deliveries potentially beginning within hours of the authorisation, according to a report by the Financial Times.

Authorisation would mean the UK is the first western country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine and would pave the way for the first jabs to take place from 7 December.

Ministers have ordered 40m doses of the two-shot vaccine, which was shown to be 95 per cent effective in trials.

The government has faced criticism from opponents and their own MPs this week for breaking a manifesto pledge on foreign aid spending.

However, our chief political commentator, John Rentoul, suggests that the coronavirus crisis has made such promises more difficult to keep.

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A student has discovered that there is a correlation between negative reviews for scented candles and a rise in coronavirus infections.

Kate Petrova, who studies neurology and social psychology at Harvard, shared her data discovery on social media, explaining how the candles have become “unexpected victims” of the pandemic.

Our reporter, Joe Middleton, has the full story below:

President-elect Joe Biden has called on all Americans to take individual responsibility in helping to bring the coronavirus crisis under control.

His intervention came as the US recorded another daily record for infections, with 199,105 new cases, according to data collected by The New York Times.

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The number of people who have died from coronavirus in UK hospitals has risen by 370.

Health authorities have confirmed 289 deaths in England, 44 in Scotland, 29 in Wales and eight in Northern Ireland.

The latest figures from the Department of Health showed that across the UK there are 16,064 patients in hospital with the virus, of which 1,456 are on ventilators.

The UK’s official coronavirus death toll last night stood at 57,551 after 521 fatalities were confirmed in all settings.

There were 391 Covid-19 deaths registered in UK hospitals a week ago while a month ago, on 28 October, there were 248.

Police have led people away in handcuffs from an anti-lockdown protest in London’s Hyde Park where revellers carried placards reading “stop controlling us” and “no more lockdowns”.

The large crowd of demonstrators chanting “freedom” left the park near Marble Arch and marched along a road parallel to Oxford Street.

Officers were later seen handcuffing several more demonstrators as the march weaved through central London streets.

Police asked people who were part of one noisy crowd to go home.