Asian stocks have fallen as worries about the coronavirus pandemic eclipsed hopes that major stimulus plans would ease the impact of the outbreak.

It came after Wall Street's main indexes rebounded by more than 5% on Tuesday following Monday's steep falls.

In the US, the Trump administration outlined a $1 trillion (£830bn) package to support the world's biggest economy.

At the same time the UK has revealed details of its own stimulus measures, including £330bn of business loans.

Read more from our business team here.

For those of you just getting set up for the day in the UK, welcome - particularly if you have to stay at home because you are self-isolating.

Many of us, like many of you, are working from home.

We'll be running this page all day, keeping you updated with the latest news and information about this extraordinary situation, as well as advice about how you can keep yourself, loved ones and colleagues safe. We know this is a worrying time for everyone.

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A lot has happened in the last 12 hours. If you're just catching up, here are the latest headlines from Asia:

• Health officials in South Korea are worried about "small clusters" of coronavirus breaking out across the country, despite the overall number of new infections going down. At least 74 people from a hospital in Daegu that specialises in elderly care have been infected, while there have also been confirmed cases at a hospital south of Seoul.
• Meanwhile, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has attended a ground-breaking ceremony for a new hospital to be built in Pyongyang, state media reports - although they do not link it to the ongoing pandemic.
• During a call with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, China's president Xi Jinping proposed the construction of a "Health Silk Road" to help co-ordinate global efforts to tackle the pandemic.
• Japanese public broadcaster NHK is reporting that several foreign countries have cancelled or postponed their national team training camps for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.
• All of Malaysia has now entered a state of lockdown, triggered in part by a religious gathering that was attended by about 16,000 people at the end of February.
• In the Philippines there have been six more cases bringing the total to 193 with 14 deaths, while in Thailand there have been 35 new cases, bringing the total to 212 with one death.

The scientist who led research that is reported to have influenced changes to the UK's coronavirus policy is self-isolating after developing symptoms of Covid-19.

Prof Neil Ferguson, from London's Imperial College, led a group of experts modelling the effect of policies introduced to curb the virus.

Their latest findings suggested that - without the adoption of harsh "suppresion" tactics that effectively shut down society - hundreds of thousands would die in the UK.

Prof Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he developed symptoms on Tuesday and a high fever overnight - hours after attending a Downing Street press conference.

"Central London is really the kind of hotspot in the UK at the moment... still in Westminster, there is a lot," he said.

"It is becoming quite a widespread community infection especially in hotspots like London," he added.

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Self-isolation measures are likely to lead to an increase in divorces - that's according to one of the UK's leading divorce lawyers.

Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia, who has had such illustrious clients as Paul McCartney, the Prince of Wales, Madonna and Liam Gallagher, believes the prolonged periods of being stuck together without escape might be more than some couples can handle.

"Our peak times are after long exposure during the summer holidays and over Christmas," she said, speaking in the House of Lords.

"One only has to imagine what it's going to be like when families are sealed in a property for a long period of time."

So if you are or will be self-isolating... just try to be extra nice to each other.

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The first people have been turned away from the EU border under the bloc's new travel ban for non-EU citizens.

Passengers on a flight from Turkey were stopped at Germany's largest airport in Frankfurt am Main last night, as the 30-day ban came into effect.

It's not clear how many flights today will be affected.

The German government is also trying to repatriate more than 100,000 Germans who are currently stuck abroad.

And in Poland, local media is reporting, external that there's a 40km traffic queue at the Polish border as people rush to get home.

For more information about the EU's ban, read our full story here.

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More on those plans by a big British supermarket - J Sainsbury - to ration products and prioritise the elderly and vulnerable after widespread reports of empty shelves.

Sainsbury's says it has listened to feedback from customers and its staff and will introduce limits on the number of products people can buy.

There will be a three-item limit overall, but a two-item limit for those products in most demand - in line with some other UK supermarkets.

It has also decided to introduce special opening hours for the elderly and vulnerable, and prioritise them through its online shopping service.

Read more here.

A German pharmaceutical company working on a vaccine has suggested it might have a product ready by autumn. The company, Curevac, had been at the centre of a row over the weekend when media reports suggested Washington had tried to offer money in exchange for a vaccine exclusive for the US.

The company though dismissed suggestions they'd received a concrete offer from Washington.

One of the owners of the firm told German paper FAZ that, if things go well, a vaccine might be developed by early summer, external and could then be approved and ready for rollout by autumn.

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China has proposed the construction of a "Health Silk Road" to help co-ordinate global efforts to tackle the pandemic.

During a call with the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on 16 March, President Xi Jinping said, external China was available "to work with Italy to contribute to international co-operation in the fight against the epidemic and for the construction of a Health Silk Road", state media reports.

Similarly, during a call with the Italian foreign minister last month, the Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi had expressed hope that the "joint fight against the outbreak" would start a "Silk Road" of health care.

The Silk Road was the ancient trading routes between China and West and more recently, China has launched the Belt and Road Initiative, an ambitious infrastructure project.

China, where the virus first appeared, has been highlighting its humanitarian efforts recently, such as sending medical workers and supplies to other countries hardest-hit.

We may be washing our hands religiously these days, but what about our phones and other devices which we handle all the time? Here's a quick reminder on how to do a thorough wipe-down of your mobile, and what to use when cleaning it.

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France is beginning its second day of strict confinement at home for all citizens.

According to French paper Le Monde, the fine for non-compliance is now 135 euros (£123, $149), up from 38 euros on Tuesday.

According to the paper, police had been lenient on the first day and most people didn't have to pay, but if you're on the streets of Paris without a good reason, you do run a risk of having to pay up.

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More and more of us will need to keep in touch online - but what if a parent or other older person in your life doesn't have access to video calling tech?

Kate Bevan, computing editor of British consumer magazine Which?, tells the BBC that you "might want to consider getting a specialised device to make video calls to your loved ones".

"Once they're set up, they're very simple to use but you do have to dig through settings in their apps to connect them and that's not always as straightforward as it might be."

Age UK, the charity for older people, adds that the choice of tech should be as "user-friendly as possible".

"Older people may also prefer physical interfaces like a mouse rather than a touchscreen or trackpad," Caroline Abrahams, its charity director, says.

Read the full story here

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South Korea has been seeing a downward trend in the overall number of coronavirus infections, which had raised hopes that the epidemic in the country - the largest in Asia, outside China - might have been abating.

But as the BBC's Seoul correspondent Laura Bicker reports, health officials are now worried about a small clusters of infections that have broken out.

At least 74 people from a hospital in Daegu that specialises in elderly care have been infected, while there have also been confirmed cases at a hospital south of Seoul.

This includes the head of that clinic, who has been in meetings with the country's Vice Health Minister - who will now be placed in isolation and tested.

South Korea has reported 93 new cases of the virus in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of cases in the country to just over 8,400.

If you're just waking up in the UK and joining our live coverage, welcome. A particularly warm welcome to those of you already stuck at home.

The team here in Singapore will be handing over to our UK colleagues shortly - many of whom are, like many of you, working from home.

We'll be running this page all day, bringing you the latest news and information about this extraordinary situation, as well as advice about how you can keep yourself, loved ones and colleagues safe.

We now have a dedicated index on our website for the latest Coronavirus information. If you're using the app, you can search for "Coronavirus outbreak" to add it to your My News section.

Earlier we told you that posts about the coronavirus from the BBC and other news sources were being incorrectly marked as "spam" or "inappropriate" content on Facebook and Instagram.

In response Facebook, which owns both social media sites, said that this was due to a "bug in an anti-spam system".

The firm previously said contract workers who review content would be sent home due to the outbreak.

"We've restored all the posts that were incorrectly removed, which included posts on all topics - not just those related to COVID-19," Guy Rosen, Facebook's vice president for integrity, said on Twitter.

You can now read the BBC's full story on this here.

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The UK government announced measures yesterday to support the economy in the coming weeks and months.

Read the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg's analysis of what the rapidly changing situation will mean.

While she says "there are still holes in the vast plans," the enormous and expensive emergency measures will have the country "changing before our eyes".

Japanese public broadcaster NHK is reporting that several foreign countries have cancelled or postponed their national team training camps for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The table tennis and gymnastics teams from Colombia have cancelled their training in the western city of Kitakyushu.

Britain's wheelchair basketball team was scheduled to practice next month in Urayasu City, near Tokyo, but has also cancelled due to players' health concerns.

Sabae City in Fukui Prefecture has asked China's gymnastics association to cancel its team's training camp in the city in April, NHK reports.

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

The UK's newspapers on Wednesday morning are focussing on the government's rescue package.

It's being described as a "war chest" and a "kiss of life" while others are putting out a rallying cry that "This won't beat Britain".

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There are around 2,000 confirmed infections in the UK. The actual number though is estimated to be much higher, between 35,000 and 50,000.

If you want to find out how many cases have been confirmed in your neighbourhood, you can click here to do so with your postcode, English council or Scottish NHS area.