Dominic Raab says the prime minister is still in hospital, but in "good spirits".

And he says the government is also still "united" in its leading of the crisis.

Moving on to his own department - the Foreign Office - he says the government has brought home 20,000 people from Spain, 13,000 from Egypt and 8,000 from Indonesia - along with another 2,000 people from seven other countries.

Mr Raab adds: "For those travellers still stuck abroad, we are doing everything we can to keep airports open, commercial flights [running] and to charter flights."

He continues: "Every arm of government is doing everything it possibly can to defeat the virus... both at home and abroad."

Mr Raab concludes his remarks by thanking the NHS for its "heroic work".

Dominic Raab says the government’s “step-by-step action plan” is aimed at slowing the spread of virus so fewer people need hospital treatment.

The foreign secretary says, at each point, the government has been following scientific and medical advice and has been “very deliberate” in its actions.

He confirms that the number of deaths across the UK has now reached 5,373.

He pays tribute to those who have died and to all the frontline workers helping them.

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Today’s daily briefing from the UK government will take place at 17:00 BST (16:00 GMT).

The press conference will be led by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab - who is in line to step in if Prime Minister Boris Johnson cannot carry on with his job.

He will be joined by the chief medical officer, Chris Whitty - who has just come out of self-isolation due to coronavirus - and the chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence, Professor Dame Angela McLean.

Immunology professor, Denis Kinane, thinks an "optimistic guess" would be that lockdown measures could be relaxed at the end of April or beginning of May.

He told Drivetime on Radio Scotland that if that happened, testing of those with symptoms and contact tracing of confirmed cases would need to happen.

People would also have to wear masks in public, and a ban on public gatherings would have to continue.

Professor of immunology Denis Kinane thinks Germany's approach may have been more successful - they have carried out twice the amount of testing that the UK has and they have only had a quarter of the deaths the UK has had so far.

He said: "They are testing, identifying patients and getting them treated.

"They are also doing surveillance on these patients who are positive and talking to them about how they should be acting, socially distancing, isolating and they're also checking out the contacts these people have had".

Dentists who are unable to work because of the coronavirus outbreak should help carry out Covid-19 tests, an immunologist has argued.

Prof Denis Kinane told Radio Scotland's Drivetime that "manpower" was an issue in carrying out the test, and that Scotland had 2,000 dentists who were currently being paid by the NHS but were unable to work.

He said they had many of the skills which made them "well equipped to do the testing job".

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Older and vulnerable people are feeling pressured into signing "do not resuscitate" forms, a number of charities and care bodies have warned.

They have also said many people "feel that their lives and wishes do not matter".

A joint statement, external, which has been signed by Age Scotland and Scottish Care among others, emphasises it is crucial to protect people's fundamental human rights and not take blanket decisions on care which undermine these rights.

It said: "Whether or not to sign a DNA-CPR form is an individual’s decision, and they have a right to make that decision without feeling pressurised."

The 149th Open Championship is cancelled but 2020's three other men's majors are rescheduled because of the global coronavirus pandemic.

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The first minister announced extra funding packages for services for vulnerable groups earlier, including to help those with drug and alcohol issues.

An extra £166,000 will go towards signposting support services for drug and alcohol misuse and increasing access to naloxone, the overdose-reversing drug. A new family fund will also be created.

Up to £8m will be provided to services including Scottish Women's Aid, those that provide emergency accommodation and those that provide support for LGBT communities.

Public Health Minister Joe Fitzpatrick said: "The coronavirus pandemic is one of the biggest challenges of our lifetime and it will disrupt so many lives like never before. Protecting and supporting everyone during these unprecedented times is our priority."

Angie Brown
Edinburgh and East reporter

An elderly man in Edinburgh is calling on other pensioners who are stuck inside due to the lockdown to keep active in their homes or “risk seizing-up”.

Ian Fortune, 87, who lives in Swanston, said he normally goes for walks outside but has now been finding other ways to stay fit inside his house.

He now goes on his cross trainer every day in his garage and makes sure he does not sit in his chair for long periods of time.

The retired long-distance lorry driver said: “We have to keep fit, we have to keep motivated or we’ll seize-up.

“Keeping fit helps our immune systems to stay strong which is what we need at a time like this.”

Fiona Walker
BBC Scotland

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The death of a home care worker announced today by the first minister underlines an important message.

Just when the public’s tolerance is being tested, people are dying while trying to help others.

It helps us re-focus our minds and remember. This is going to get worse.

If you look clinically at the number of reported deaths, they have not risen sharply in the past few days. However, they aren’t the full picture. This is in part because of the way the figures are recorded, focusing currently on deaths in hospital.

The government is preparing us for a change when deaths happening in the community, such as care homes, are added in – probably from the middle of this week.

Nicola Sturgeon and the new figure alongside her, Dr Gregor Smith, had to get across a difficult message. Dr Smith for his part was explicit that his team must “model good behaviour”.

The risk is his predecessor may have undermined the “stay at home” message at the worst possible time. It’s Easter and there is concern public fatigue with lockdown may be showing.

By emphasising the dedication and risks taken by healthcare workers, the new team hope they can re-establish trust and persuade the public to stay the course and stay at home.

Brian Taylor
BBC Scotland Political Editor

Will the departure of Dr Calderwood as CMO have lasting damage? Very had to assess. It all depends how Nicola Sturgeon, her health secretary and the deputy CMO perform in the days ahead.

At the briefing today, the deputy, Dr Gregor Smith, made rather a good start. His briefing was contained and concise, solid rather than spectacular. Dr Cameron, not Dr Finlay.

Indeed, he presented himself as the apogee of a sound Scottish GP. Albeit one who is apparently a fan of Iron Maiden.

I think it likely, on balance, that this too will pass. That the crisis is so severe, so overwhelming, that it will demand that our attention and our endeavours do indeed move on from the case of the departing CMO.

• Read more analysis from Brian Taylor here.

Brian Taylor
BBC Scotland Political Editor

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What on earth was she thinking? This was either grossly naive, achingly foolish or staggeringly arrogant. And either way the chief medical officer had to go.

I have heard it said – indeed a listener made this point on the wireless this morning – that Dr Catherine Calderwood should be forgiven a mistake. But this mistake was of a distinct and different calibre.

Dr Calderwood was not a by-stander in this crisis. She was the public face of a campaign to persuade the public to stay at home. She delivered this message, repeatedly, in sonorous and sententious tones. And then she neglected those guidelines in her personal life, travelling, not once but twice, from Edinburgh to her family’s second home in Fife.

It was Dr Calderwood herself who echoed the mantra of the Scottish and UK authorities that by staying at home we would be helping to protect the NHS – and thus to save lives. To save lives.

It then emerged that there had been another visit, on a different weekend. This, understandably, excited further questions from the wicked media. Ms Sturgeon argued that the number of visits was immaterial.

There was no justification for the CMO in leaving Edinburgh at all. It was indefensible, and she did not defend it.

• Read more analysis from Brian Taylor here.

Andrew Picken
BBC Scotland News

The number of prisoners self-isolating because of coronavirus has more than halved.

According to the Scottish Prison Service, on 30 March a total of 110 inmates over 11 sites were self-isolating.

A week later this tally has fallen to 46 prisoners over eight sites.

In that period, family visiting has been suspended and a number of other restrictions put in place, such as stopping communal dining.

Douglas Fraser
Scotland business & economy editor

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The economic crisis has moved from the stress indicators of global stock markets, which can often seem unreal and irrational, to the real world.

Market indices have stopped falling so fast and we are now beginning to get a sense of the scale of job losses.

The tourist industry was hit very hard with the denial of two big earners as far away as August in the Edinburgh festivals (cancelled) and the COP26 environment conference in Glasgow in November (postponed).

That underlined the heightened level of exposure for hospitality and tourism, and was a signal of how long this is going to affect the economy.

Read more from Douglas here.

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There are currently 3,961 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Scotland, although the actual number of cases is likely to be more than 300,000.

Here is how the increase in cases and deaths look in graphs as well as a breakdown of where those cases are.

Dr Gregor Smith has been appointed Scotland's interim chief medical officer following the resignation of Dr Catherine Calderwood who had led the country's strategy on tackling the coronavirus pandemic.

But who is he?

Read here to find out.