WHO warning after Europe's worst week: COVID-19 daily bulletin

• Europe's 300,000 new infections reported this week is higher than any previous week, including the first spike in spring, said World Health Organization (WHO) regional director Hans Kluge. In the past two weeks the number of new cases has doubled in more than half of European member states.

• UK prime minister Boris Johnson said the UK was facing an "inevitable" second wave, adding he did not want another national lockdown but that new restrictions may be necessary. Former senior government health advisor Neil Ferguson said lockdown measures would be needed "sooner rather than later."

• Switzerland-based drug company Roche reports a medicine it sells to reduce inflammation has helped prevent the need for breathing machines among hospitalized COVID-19 patients, in a study from the Americas focused primarily on Hispanic and black patients. 

• Dutch justice minister Ferd Grapperhaus has been fined $460 after he was pictured breaking social distancing measures at his wedding. 

• Greece is tightening restrictions in the greater Athens area: suspending concerts, limiting gatherings to nine people and demanding 40 percent of work is done from home where possible.

• Iceland is closing venues and pubs in the Reykjavik area for four days as Denmark orders a 10 pm curfew for such venues and limits gatherings from 100 to 50 people.

• The daily count of new cases in Czechia fell to 2,111 on Friday after four days of record highs, as the country limits opening hours, bans stand-up indoor events and insist on face masks in schools. 

• Europe's healthcare regulator has endorsed using dexamethasone to treat COVID-19 patients with breathing difficulties, paving the way for the steroid to become the region's second approved treatment for the respiratory illness.

Click here for more