The United States has posted a record 53,000 new coronavirus cases as the deadly pandemic accelerated across the Americas, but its slowdown in Europe has led Britain to announce the first exemptions to its quarantine rules, AFP reported.

With Europe looking to turn the page on the biggest public health crisis in modern history, travelers arriving into Britain from Germany, France, Spain and Italy will no longer be required to self-isolate starting July 10.

Meanwhile, the US has notched more than 53,000 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, a tally by Johns Hopkins University showed, a new one-day record as infections surge around the country.