Coronavirus: New accusations over Dominic Cummings’ lockdown trip

Summary

1. UK PM Boris Johnson backs his chief assistant, in the middle of allegations that he breached lockdown restrictions
2. He states Dominic Cummings acted “properly and lawfully”
3. Numerous Conservative MPs had actually called for the consultant to be removed from his post
4. Johnson says the UK can transfer to phase 2 of the easing of limitations
5. This would see some pupils in England going back to school from 1 June
6. The world’s deepest mine, the Mponeng cash cow in South Africa, closes after 164 individuals evaluated favorable
7. China’s foreign minister says politicians in the United States are “leaping at every chance to slander” his country