updates: L.A. 'on the brink' of reclosing; Jack Nicklaus has antibodies; Russian elites getting vaccine?

Congress returns Monday to discuss the next coronavirus relief package as the additional $600 in weekly unemployment benefits is set to expire next week.

Scores of Russia’s business and political elite have been given early access to an experimental vaccine against Covid-19, Bloomberg News is reporting. Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the effort, said top corporate executives, billionaire tycoons and government officials began getting shots developed by the state-run Gamaleya Institute in Moscow as early as April

At a time when some Americans are concerned about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, tens of thousands have already volunteered to help bring them into existence. As of last week, more than 107,000 people had signed up to take part in testing. More are still needed but the initial surge will go a long way toward filling the requirement for at least 30,000 volunteers each for the four companies that plan to launch Phase 3 clinical trials of their potential vaccines by early fall.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced Sunday the commonwealth had 979 new cases of the coronavirus — the state's largest single-day increase yet in the pandemic. The Bluegrass State now has at least 23,161 total cases. An additional three Kentuckians died due to COVID-19, Beshear said, bringing the statewide death total to 670. Thirty of Sunday's new cases were in children aged 5 or younger, the governor's office said.

In a moment of weather-forced downtime at the Memorial Tournament on Sunday, tournament host Jack Nicklaus revealed in a conversation with Jim Nantz on the CBS broadcast that both he and wife Barbara Nicklaus had contracted COVID-19 earlier in the spring. Jack, who said he suffered from a cough and sore throat, tested positive four times while Barbara, who was asymptomatic, had three positive tests.