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Singapore has extended its partial lockdown until 1 June. The measures - called circuit breakers by the government - include school closures and almost everyone working from home. Social gatherings are banned.

Hong Kong has extended its social distancing measures until at least 7 May. The region reported four new cases on Tuesday. Chief executive Carrie Lam warned: "This is not the time to be complacent. If we relax, the good work we have done will be in vain."

Football clubs in South Korea will be allowed to hold practice matches behind closed doors from Tuesday, according to the K League. The season has already been delayed by two months due to the pandemic.

On Tuesday, China’s state media said more than 4,106 people have been screened after two clusters of Covid-19 infections were discovered at hospitals there. Harbin is close to the Russian border and not too far from Suifenhe, one of the two hotspots that the government seems nervous about.

President Donald Trump's announced on Twitter , externallate on Monday night that he would temporarily suspend all immigration to the US has been met with passionate responses both by those who agree with the move and those who oppose it.

Trump said the move was necessary to protect American jobs and defend the country from coronavirus but gave few further details of what it might entail.

But whatever form it takes, the controversial ban is virtually guaranteed to divide opinion.

Joe Biden, the presumptive presidential candidate for the Democrats, reprimanded Trump in a tweet, apparently in response to the ban.

“The President needs to stop blaming others and do his job,”he tweeted, external.

Other Democrats were more explicit in their criticism. California Senator Kamala Harris, for example, said Trump was using the outbreak to push his anti-immigrant stance.

Ali Noorani, the executive director of the National Immigration Forum, echoed that sentiment, accusing Trump of seeing immigrants as “the easiest to blame”.

In contrast, Republicans cheered the move. Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar said immigration should be halted until “every American who wants a job has one”.

Matt Mowers, an adviser to the US State Department, said he supported the ban “because we need to put America’s interests first as we begin our economic comeback”.

A further 778 people who tested positive for coronavirus in hospitals in England have died over a 24-hour period, NHS figures show.

It takes the total number of hospital deaths to 15,607.

The latest death figures do not include those in the community, or in places such as care homes. There is a time lag in that data but you can find the latest for England and Wales here.

Daily figures for the entire UK are expected later.

Captain Tom Moore, who has raised more than £27m for the NHS by completing 100 laps of his garden, has been sent more than 25,000 birthday cards ahead of his 100th birthday on 30 April.

Stephen James, manager at the South Midlands Mail Centre, said: "None of the team have ever known one person receive so much mail."

Meanwhile, British Formula 1 driver Lando Norris has spoken to Capt Moore via a video chat and offered him a tour around the McLaren F1 factory.

"Nothing would give me more pleasure - it would be absolutely phenomenal to go around McLaren because I've always been a McLaren fan and still am," said Capt Moore.

Norris, 20, added: "I want to say a big congratulations for everything you have achieved - it's my honour to speak to you."

The coronavirus pandemic could nearly double the number of people around the world facing acute hunger, the UN's World Food Programme has warned.

"The number of people facing acute food insecurity stands to rise to 265m in 2020, up by 130m from 135m in 2019, as a result of the economic impact of Covid-19," the WFP said its projections had shown.

The warning came as the WFP and other partners released a new report on food crises around the world.

The fourth annual Global Report on Food Crises found that food insecurity was already on the rise last year before the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis.

"Oprah Winfrey coming after people with a chainsaw" is not a sentence that has been aired on the BBC before but in the world of vivid lockdown dreams that is far from the only bizarre narrative.

So why are people reporting more intense dreams than before and how is the Covid-19 crisis being experienced unconsciously?

We've explored this phenomenon for you.

The government is "absolutely standing by” its target of carrying out 100,000 coronavirus tests per day by the end of April, Downing St has said - despite capacity being lower than 40,000 on Monday.

The prime minister’s spokesman said the total capacity for tests was currently 39,250 per day.

In the 24 hours until 09:00 on Monday, 19,316 tests were carried out.

The government also reiterated its plans to review the advice on face masks. Currently, the government only recommends their use in health and social care settings, but some other countries have recommended them for the general population.

As announced last week, the scientific advisory group for emergencies (SAGE) is meeting to consider “further evidence” on the effectiveness of face masks, Downing St said, and the government will set out its position once it has reached a decision.

As we reported earlier, the number of deaths in England and Wales has reached a 20 year high.

Office for National Statistics figures show that 18,516 people died in the week up to 10 April - about 8,000 more than would be expected.

And the data makes clear the impact of the coronavirus.

A third of all deaths, and about 80% of these "extra” deaths were linked to it, says BBC News' Head of Statistics Robert Cuffe.

And the data shows that since the arrival of coronavirus, the weekly number of deaths in care homes has doubled, he points out.

Meanwhile, it hasn’t increased by as much in hospitals or at home (up by three-quarters and a half respectively).

But rises in non-coronavirus deaths are also playing a role, and this suggests the indirect effects of the pandemic and lockdown are also having an impact, says BBC Health correspondent Nick Triggle.

He highlights that the number of deaths caused by flu and pneumonia was three times higher than the number of coronavirus deaths over the course of the year.

"This will narrow quickly in coming weeks as more coronavirus deaths are reported, but provides some important context," he said.

The government has had more than 8,000 offers from suppliers of personal protective equipment (PPE) and is prioritising those of “larger volumes”, Downing St says.

Amid criticism that companies have not had offers taken up, the prime minister’s spokesman said the government needed to make sure they met safety and quality standards.

The spokesman said it was “not true” that the government had ignored one particular company, Veenak, saying “they registered the offer on April 5th and would have got an immediate response.”

“We are working as hard as we can with international partners to bring PPE in and at the same time trying to increase domestic supply,” he said.

Regarding a consignment of PPE from Turkey, the government was “continuing to work to ensure this shipment is delivered as soon as it is ready.”

There had been consternation after the government said the shipment would arrive on Sunday, but it turned out not to be ready.

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With sports facilities closed around the world, athletes are struggling to stay fit, but NFL quarterback Tom Brady has fallen foul of lockdown rules in Tampa, Florida - by training in a public park.

During a Facebook Live chat on Monday, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor said a parks worker "saw an individual working out in one of our downtown parks, she went to tell him it was closed - and it was Tom Brady."

Neither Brady, 42, nor his American football team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, has responded publicly and US media has reported that Brady was not fined.

A tweet from the official City of Tampa account then said: "Sorry @TomBrady! Our @tampaparksrec team can’t wait to welcome you and our entire community back with even bigger smiles — until then, stay safe and stay home as much as you can to help flatten the curve."

Here in the UK, self-isolation and social distancing have become essential measures to stem the spread of the virus.

Here are our guides on how to do both of them properly, and UK guidelines for both practices.

The number of people who have died in hospitals in Scotland after testing positive for coronavirus has risen by 70 in a day, to a total of 985.

So far, there have now been 8,672 confirmed cases of the virus in Scotland - an increase of 222 over 24 hours.

These numbers do not include deaths in the community, in places such as care homes.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was cautiously optimistic that the increase in cases was stabilising.

UK-wide figures are expected later.

The prime minister is expected to hold an audience with the Queen at some point this week, Downing Street has said.

The telephone conversation will be the first between Boris Johnson and Her Majesty for three weeks, as he has been ill with coronavirus.

The prime minister is also due to speak to President Trump this afternoon.

Downing Street said the call would be an opportunity for an update on the response to the virus by G7 countries - currently chaired by the US - and to “thank the president for the messages of support that he has sent” during Mr Johnson's illness.

The prime minister is “continuing his recovery at Chequers and not formally doing government work,” his spokesman said.

He has been “receiving updates from No 10 on the coronavirus response and has spoken with the first secretary of state [Dominic Raab] and senior members of his team.”

Any front line worker who needs to be tested for the virus should now be able to be tested, the government's coronavirus testing co-ordinator, Professor John Newton, has told the BBC.

In an interview with BBC health editor Hugh Pym, Prof Newton said 27 drive-in testing centres were now up and running in the UK and more were planned.

But he acknowledged some key workers were finding it difficult to get to drive-in testing centres.

Government scientists are also now delivering testing swabs to hospitals and other work places so testing can be carried out there. In addition they are delivering test kits to people's homes so people can take their own swab.

Professor Newton says the testing scheme has been extended to all front-line workers. As well as NHS staff and care home workers, this includes police officers, prison officers, teachers and other front line key workers.

Health secretary Matt Hancock has set a target of 100,000 tests per day by the end of April.

Asked whether this would be met Professor Newton said: "You would need to talk to the secretary of state about his target. But we are confident we have the lab capacity to deliver the testing service the country needs."

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In the UK, Parliament returns today from its Easter recess.

But it's far from business as usual, as MPs and peers prepare to move most parliamentary business online.

Our assistant political editor Norman Smith explains plans for a virtual Parliament, including a three-day week and a limit to the number of MPs in the chamber.

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Spain's famous annual San Fermin bull-running festival in July has been cancelled because of the coronavirus crisis.

"As expected as it was, it still leaves us deeply sad," said acting mayor Ana Elizalde in a statement from the local Pamplona town hall.

The festival, which draws thousands of participants and was made famous in Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Sun Also Rises", has seldom been cancelled in its history.

It is the second major European tourist event to be cancelled today after it was announced that Oktoberfest, the famous annual German beer-drinking festival which sees six million people travel to Munich, will not take place.

James Gallagher
Health and science correspondent, BBC News

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Most experts are predicting any vaccine would be likely to be ready at the earliest by the middle of 2021, about 12 to 18 months after the coronavirus first emerged.

There are about 80 groups around the world working on this, and some have begun trials.

They are working flat out to speed up a process that would normally take years, if not decades.

There’s a huge amount of work to do to ensure a vaccine is safe, and to get it mass produced and distributed globally. But even then, it’s not clear just how effective it might be.

Read more here.

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BBC Monitoring

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Quarantine rules in Russia have forced critics of the government to use online platforms to voice dissent.

Opponents of the lockdown have used Russia's popular search engine Yandex and its Maps services to leave comments on particular locations.

Comments are normally about traffic, but in this campaign include, "how do we pay our mortgage?" and "we are hungry, what do we do?," in a show of dissatisfaction.

Metropicket, a rights movement which held protests outside Moscow’s metro stations every Friday before the lockdown, held its first Zoom protest on 17 April, with demonstrators holding posters up to cameras at home.

Another opposition event is planned for 28 April on YouTube.“Holding a street rally right now would be irresponsible, but we want to try something other than boring petitions, addresses or Facebook posts,” prominent journalist and campaigner Ilya Azar said on Facebook.

It comes with US Democratic governors asking the White House to urge Americans to obey stay-at-home orders amid anti-lockdown protests stoked by President Donald Trump.

With restaurants and bars having been closed for nearly a month, some Britons are finding a new excuse to get dressed up... the weekly shop.

"I'm missing nights out with the girls, so this is my way of at least looking and feeling nice," says Kinga Bellan, 31, outside a Tesco in Edinburgh.

For Sophie Coffey, 40, making an effort with her outfit simply to head to the supermarket makes her "feel so much better".

And they're not alone. Other Edinburgh shoppers have been telling BBC News why they have been dressing up for the weekly shop.

It's one of the most instinctual things to do - and also something you absolutely shouldn't be doing right now. We explain why we love to touch our faces - and how to overcome that urge.