Leaders are holding a video summit today as coronavirus continues to spread.

Here are the latest developments from across the continent:

• All 27 member state leaders will discuss the EU’s response to the virus in the virtual summit this afternoon.
• The latest statistics on Spain’s outbreak are due out this morning. There are close to 50,000 confirmed cases in the country – including Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo – and more than 3,600 deaths.
• All restaurants, parks and shops barring grocery stores will shut in Moscow for one week on Monday, the city’s mayor said, as Russia ramps up its response to the outbreak.
• France has recorded 1,331 deaths. In a visit to a hospital last night President Emmanuel Macron said he would call on the army to help the country.

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Riccardo Corvi, who runs a hairdressers in Ayr, says his industry was "flung under the bus" the day bars and pubs were closed because there was no clear advice for them.

We collectively made the decision the next day there was "no way" we could continue because you cannot social distance when doing someone's hair, he explains.

Every member of the team is now on furlough (leave of absence),until further notice he says.

Mr Corvi adds he will have to pay staff from his own pocket for the upcoming payday and then claim it back when the government scheme is in place.

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Scotland's largest rural performing arts festival has been cancelled.

Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival's organisers said it was the "only viable option" for the event which was due to run from 22 to 31 May.

It is hoped as many events as possible can be rescheduled for next year.

Tony McGrade, an employment lawyer, says it may be possible to warn your employer you will resign and pursue a claim for constructive dismissal if they are behaving unreasonably.

But he accepts this is not an option for everyone.

A Scottish hotel group is offering some of its bedrooms to NHS workers.

Four of Manorview’s hotels in the west of Scotland are accommodating frontline staff.

The hotel group said it was offering rooms free of charge to NHS teams on the frontline and any acute services teams who wished to isolate themselves away from friends and family.

In a post on social media, the group said that, more than ever, the health, safety and wellbeing of NHS staff needed to be secured.

The hotel group suspended trading last week. The company said it wanted to make a difference.

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Linda Bauld, a professor of public health, suggests employers need to read the guidance that's already out there as it is clear.

"I was quite astonished yesterday off-licences have been included in the essential business category," she adds.

She accepts Scotch whisky is hugely important to the economy but questions whether it is essential in the current circumstance.

Jane Wright, who chairs the foster carer workers branch for the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) says foster carers are among the self employed struggling for income due to the coronavirus.

She told Good Morning Scotland that respite carers had lost work, while some full-time foster carers had become ill to the point where they could not look after children.

IWGB has proposed that local authorities pay a retainer to keep foster carers afloat.

Ms Wright said: "It's just not fair to expect people to keep going on no income.

"Arrangements for employed people were announced well over a week ago. Lots of [self employed] people have been completely forgotten."

NHS field hospital sites in Scotland will be identified this week ahead of a predicted rapid rise in Covid-19 cases, the chief medical officer has said.

Dr Catherine Calderwod said she agreed with a senior medic who expects a coronavirus "tsunami" in coming weeks.

She said Scotland was looking to set up temporary hospitals similar to one planned for London.

Dr Calderwood also revealed that new distribution systems for protective equipment were being set up.

The ExCel exhibition centre space in East London is being prepared as a field hospital, to be staffed by NHS medics with the help of the military and there are reports that the NEC in Birmingham could take on a similar role.

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Dr Catherine Calderwood has responded to criticism of the Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall being given tests for coronavirus, which are normally reserved for the very sick.

Clarence House announced yesterday that the Prince of Wales had tested positive, while his wife was negative.

Dr Calderwood said: "I've spoken to the team in Grampian who were looking after the individual, I think it is well known.

"My understanding is there are very good clinical reasons for that person and his wife to be tested and I wouldn't be able to disclose anything else that I know because of patient confidentiality."

Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd has closed its airports to scheduled and routine general flights.

The company said the move would help protect lifeline air services.

Hial operates airports in the Highlands, Western and Northern isles, Argyll and Dundee.

The closure to scheduled and general aviation traffic will take effect from Sunday.

Hial said: "Our communities, in particular those on the islands, rely on our airports for vital services and we are currently working with Transport Scotland and Loganair to agree a skeleton schedule that will ensure our airports continue to provide lifeline and essential services, including NHS passenger transfer, the Royal Mail and the oil and gas industry.

"Our airport managers will implement contingency arrangements to ensure our airports continue to operate as required."

In her interview with Good Morning Scotland, Dr Catherine Calderwood said:

• Scotland is on the cusp of a "rapid acceleration" of coronavirus cases
• Sites are being considered for makeshift hospitals in Scotland
• Distribution of PPE equipment should not be a problem in Scotland after this week
• A laboratory is being set up in Glasgow to enable "thousands more" tests to be carried out per day.
• Tests will be given to key workers to enable them to go back to work.
• A company is in discussion with the Scottish government regarding how to produce home tests - or antibody tests - in Scotland.
• These tests could be available within "weeks to a few months at the outset".

Dr Catherine Calderwood, Scotland's chief medical officer, confirmed to Good Morning Scotland that "detailed discussions" were taking place regarding sites in Scotland for temporary hospitals such as the ExCel Centre in east London.

This week it was announced that the exhibition space would be staffed by NHS medics with the help of the military.

Dr Calderwood said sites in Scotland were being considered this week.

She added: "We have known for several days now we are on the cusp of a rapid escalation."

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Dr Emily Adams, senior lecturer in diagnostics for infectious disease at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is part of a group testing antibody tests - which the prime minister called a "potential game changer"

These home tests will tell people if they have been infected and recovered from Covid-19, and whether they have immunity.

Boris Johnson said the government had ordered 3.5 million of them - but when will the tests be available to NHS?

Dr Adams said: "We really can't say but we hope it will be weeks as opposed to months .

"We know there will be a stringent evaluation of these tests before they are rolled out to healthcare workers and then further."

Dr Adams added that there would also be long-term tests in the community which would be followed up over three or four years to look at whether herd immunity was going to work.

A doctor who criticised hand sanitising methods at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital has warned that the situation in Scotland's hospitals could become like Italy or Spain in a matter of "weeks".

Dr Fiona Henderson, a consultant anaesthetist at the hospital, welcomed the latest measures introduced at the hospital - but said some staff thought the hospital should be in lockdown.

She told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: "Behind the scenes people are working night and day, hardly sleeping, preparing for what is to come.

"We're hoping it doesn't end up the way it is in Italy and Spain but there's nothing to say it won't be."

Scots tennis ace Jamie Murray admits the prospect of Wimbledon going ahead is very slim.

The All England Club says a decision regarding this year's Wimbledon will be made next week.

It said postponement and cancellation of the event - scheduled between 29 June - 12 July - because of the impact of coronavirus were possible outcomes.

Speaking to BBC Scotland's The Nine, Murray said: "It doesn't necessarily look great when sporting events all over the world have been cancelled.

"In the current climate, it just might not be possible.

"They could push it back but things like the amount of daylight could be a factor."

The news that Prince Charles has tested positive for Covid-19 and is self-isolating at Balmoral makes several of the front pages.

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Some papers report that critics are asking why the heir to the throne was offered a test when he was only showing "mild symptoms" - while others want to know why he travelled to the Highlands when the public has been asked to stay away.

Clarence House has insisted the Duke of Rothesay - as he is known in Scotland - met the NHS criteria for testing.

Other papers focus on the huge "army" of volunteers who have said they stand ready to help the NHS and other vital services during the crisis. For our full round up of Scotland's front pages, click here.

New figures on the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus are released every day at 14:00 by the Scottish government.

Here's a reminder of how many confirmed cases there were across Scotland on Wednesday.