A new graphic by the Covid Exit Strategy group paints a bleak picture of the how the coronavirus crisis is ravaging the US.

The group describes itself as a collection of public health and crisis experts, with former experience working at the White House, Department of Health and Human Services, and on the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

According to the collective’s latest findings, every state in the US – aside from Maine, Vermont and Hawaii – is currently in an “uncontrolled spread” phase of Covid. 

Their website has a whole collection of graphics, aimed at informing US residents the status of their area in relation to the pandemic. 

“Our focus is the data available on the ground and how we can surface it in meaningful ways for state and local leaders to act on,” the website says. 

This year’s postponement of the Tokyo Olympics because of the novel coronavirus cost about 200 billion yen (£1.4bn), organisers have estimated, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Sunday, citing people involved with the event.

The International Olympic Committee and the Japanese government were forced to put off the Games for a year in March as the coronavirus spread rapidly around the world.

The Games cost 1.35 trillion yen (£9.8bn) before the postponement, the newspaper reported.

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Shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy has said the Labour Party is seeking “clarity” about Boris Johnson’s tier system ahead of this week’s vote in parliament, as she warned her party’s support was “not unconditional”.

It has already been confirmed that the PM is trying to deter his Tory colleagues from staging a rebellion against the new restrictions. And without Labour’s support, the government could struggle to pass its motion on Tuesday on the three tier system.

Ms Nandy acknowledged Labour had “never voted against health restrictions” but added there needed to be “proper support put in place so that people can comply”.

She told BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show today: “We very much share the view that there need to be public restrictions … we’re still very concerned particularly in parts of the north of England like mine about the pressure on hospitals.

“So we don’t share the view of those Tory backbenchers that you can just let this virus rip through the population with the damage that that would do, but we want clarity from the government on two things.

“First of all, is this sufficient to get control of the virus – we’re meeting the chief medical officer tomorrow afternoon to discuss that – and secondly whether people will actually be able to comply with this?

“We need to see proper support put in place so that people can comply, otherwise we could end up in a worse situation in January and nobody wants that.”

Her party, she told the BBC, is “not convinced at the moment that they are either sufficient or workable”. 

She said: “It’s not too late for the Government to convince us of that, but that’s what they’ve got to do in the next 48 hours. They haven’t even published the regulations yet, let alone the economic or health impact assessments.”

She also took the time to urge Conservative MPs to fix the test, trace and isolate programme, saying that because she had “been through the experience myself, I can tell you absolutely that this is not working”.

Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson has responded angrily to Tory MPs who have threatened to vote against the new tier system for coronavirus restrictions, arguing they should do a shift “carrying the bodies up to the mortuary” before voting against tough measures.

In an interview with The Independent, Mr Anderson spoke about his brother’s death to Covid-19 and the mass testing pilot which helped his city escape the most stringest measures.

Our reporter, Colin Drury, has the full story below:

Analysis by the Financial Times has shown that the UK has spent more money on the coronavirus pandemic than most comparable countries, while also recording one of the worst economic performances and death rates from Covid-19.

The UK has the second highest deaths per 100,000 population of the countries analysed, behind Italy, and had the second highest budgetary response for the crisis, behind Canada.

The chair of the Covid Recovery Group of Tory MPs has said rebels need “hard evidence not hyperbole” to support the government’s new tier system.

“Show us that the measures that are being proposed are going to be effective and show us the cost of those measures,” Mark Harper said.

Last week, 70 members of the group wrote to Boris Johnson requesting a cost-benefit analysis of the restrictions before a vote on the measures on Tuesday.

Foreign secretary Dominic Raab has told Times Radio that he will ask his sons to not hug their grandparents at Christmas to reduce the risk of spreading coronavirus. 

“I don’t want to put my mother or my stepfather at any risk,” Mr Raab said.

You can read Boris Johnson’s letter to Tory MPs on the new tier system in full below:

Further rollout of a rapid coronavirus testing machine in English hospitals is set to be halted due to difficulties in operating the technology, The Independent has learned.

Downing Street ordered 300 PCR testing devices designed by Primerdesign, a Southampton-based diagnostic firm, as part of its Operation Moonshot plans for mass testing.

Our reporter, Samuel Lovett, has the full story below:

Boris Johnson has been told to produce “good evidence” for his new coronavirus tiers to prevent a major backbench rebellion from Tory MPs on Tuesday.

The warning came after a climbdown by the prime minister, in which he suggested that the new system could last just nine weeks and offered a second vote on the restrictions at the start of February.

Our Whitehall editor, Kate Devlin, has the full story below: