The NHS in England is to get an extra £3bn to prepare for a possible second wave of coronavirus and ease winter pressures, the prime minister will announce later. Downing Street says the funding will allow the NHS to continue using additional private hospital capacity and maintain the temporary Nightingale hospitals until the end of March. It comes after scientists warned a second wave of coronavirus cases this winter could affect the UK more seriously than the first - with worst-case scenarios predicting anything from 24,500 to 251,000 deaths in hospitals alone.
"The question is, will this be enough to get the health service through what could be one of the most difficult winters in its history?" asks our health editor Hugh Pym. There have been predictions waiting lists for routine surgery - such as knee and hip operations - will swell to 10 million and we await detail on whether the extra funding will help the NHS use private hospitals to tackle the backlog, he adds. At a press conference later, Boris Johnson is also expected to commit to increasing the capacity for coronavirus testing to 500,000 a day by the end of October and publish an additional chapter to the government's Covid-19 recovery strategy "road map".

Wealthy nations have torn up the financial rule book to try to protect their economies from the knock-on effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Now should they do the same to help poorer countries? That's exactly the call from United Nations, which says £8.2bn is needed to help 265 million people at risk of starvation before the end of the year. Millions of migrant workers laid off under lockdown cannot send money home, vaccination programmes for childhood diseases are on hold, and countries locked in conflict are ill equipped to handle Covid-19. In Yemen, a quarter of all those confirmed to have had the virus have died from it, five times the global average.

It was an audacious hack, targeting some of the world's richest people and companies. And now America's domestic intelligence agency, the FBI, is investigating how Twitter accounts including those of billionaires Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Kanye West and Michael Bloomberg were used to request donations to a Bitcoin wallet, on the promise that contributors would get double in return. US senators are demanding to know whether President Donald Trump's account was ever at risk. The Senate's commerce committee has demanded Twitter brief members by Thursday. "It cannot be overstated how troubling this incident is, both in its effects and in the apparent failure of Twitter's internal controls to prevent it," says chairman Roger Wicker. The company says it's taken "significant steps" to prevent a repeat.

It's rare that corporate statements drip with emotion but you can picture a press officer wiping a tear from his keyboard after typing that "it is unlikely our magnificent 'queen of the skies' will ever operate commercial services for British Airways again". One of the many victims of the coronavirus pandemic, it seems, is the jumbo jet, with BA saying it is retiring its entire fleet of 31 Boeing 747s in the face of the downturn in global travel . The move, originally planned for 2024, is being enacted with immediate effect.

Warnings from security services that Russian hackers have been targeting Covid-19 vaccine trials dominate the front pages. The Daily Telegraph says the claims - denied by the Kremlin - come after Russia announced it was preparing to produce 200 million doses of an experimental vaccine, "fuelling suspicions that it could have been successful in stealing information" from one of the laboratories across the world. The Metro quotes No 10 as saying "the cyber attack by sinister Cozy Bear hackers" is "despicable". For the Daily Mirror, it amounts to "coronavirus war". An 80s TV-inspired Daily Star mocks up an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin in a cowboy hat, under the headline: "The Dukes of Biohazard". Hackers are also said to have tried to meddle in the 2019 UK general election, the Guardian notes. Read the review.

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