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New Zealand will ban indoor gatherings of more than 100 people, its Health Minister David Clark has said.

Mr Clark said the rules were about making sure people were putting "social distancing" in place.

"Large gatherings and events are a high risk environment... people share food or drinks, sit, or stand very close together for long periods," RNZ reported him as saying.

He concluded by saying: "If in doubt, cancel."

This rule does not apply to educational institutes, workplaces, supermarkets or public transport.

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There's been growing concern in recent days about a major religious gathering which was due to take place in Indonesia.

Thousands of people had been expected to attend the World Ijtima Asia Zone Islamic prayer event in South Sulawesi, starting today.

At the last minute and after pressure from authorities, the organisers have called the event off, local media report, but not before at least 3,000 pilgrims had arrived from around the world.

One organiser, Arifuddin Saeni, had told Reuters that there were people from Thailand, India, the Philippines and the Middle East and people were "still coming".

It's particularly concerning because a similar religious event in Malaysia last month has been confirmed as the source of more than 500 infections in the country, and several in other countries.

At the moment, only people in hospital are being routinely tested, so if you have symptoms and you are not sure if you have the virus, you may well never know.

However, the UK government has said it plans to increase testing to 10,000 a day initially, with a goal of reaching 25,000.

The failure to test more widely means that many people are self-isolating without having the virus - but the overwhelming advice is that that is the right thing to be doing for now anyway.

To learn more about the UK's testing plans - and what other countries are doing - read our helpful explainer here.

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Japan is still planning to host the Olympics as scheduled from 24 July to 9 August, raising growing concerns among athletes who say it's too risky to go there and impossible to train properly.

Many other sports events, some scheduled as far ahead as early June, have been cancelled or postponed.

The International Olympic Committee meanwhile said it held "constructive" talks with athlete representatives about the virus crisis.

President Thomas Bach insisted that "everybody realised that we still have more than four months to go" until Tokyo 2020.

British four-time Olympic rowing gold medallist Matthew Pinsent criticised Bach's comments on Twitter. ‘I'm sorry Mr Bach but this is tone deaf. [...] Call it off."

Now this is lovely - these three woman are all in their 70s, and have been friends for more than 40 years. Some of their children have even married each other.

They live in Salford in the UK, and have come up with a plan to live together if restrictions are brought in to stop older people leaving their homes.

They told the BBC's Jayne McCubbin that they've been looking after each other for years - through divorces, loss and fun times - and have a full supply of wine and gin if they need it.

At least 26,000 Indians will land in India's financial capital, Mumbai, from coronavirus-hit countries in the Gulf between 19 and 31 March.

Most of the people work in countries like the UAE, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar and had requested the government to evacuate them.

The Times of India quotes the city's civic authorities as saying that large quarantine facilities are being prepared for the people who would arrive in batches.

India has reported at least 168 confirmed cases of coronavirus infection.

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US car companies have announced they will halt all North American production due to the economic hit of the spreading coronavirus.

The country's three main auto makers, General Motors, Fiat Chrysler and Ford, will temporarily stop production through the end of the month, the companies announced in conjunction with the United Auto Workers.

The decision comes only hours after the three firms had said the plants would be kept open with special focus on social distancing between workers.

The US has almost 8,000 people confirmed with the coronavirus and 150 deaths.

You may have seen those two terms cropping up in news reports, and the WHO has only in recent weeks declared that the global virus outbreak is a pandemic. So what's the difference? We asked an expert to explain.

As we mentioned earlier Australia's Qantas has cancelled all international flights as it struggles during the coronavirus pandemic.

It joins a growing list of airlines cancelling flights as travel demand dries up globally.

"What we are seeing is unprecedented. Along with the safety issue, there is a huge disincentive to travel with confusion over quarantine and visa rules," Greg Waldron of Flight International tells the BBC.

"It's theoretically possible we could see no international flights as demand is extremely low."

Read more on how the pandemic is killing off global air travel.

New Zealand has now announced that it's closing its borders to all foreigners from midnight on Thursday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.

It comes just minutes after Australia said it would close its borders to non-residents on Friday.

If you're just joining us it's lunch time here in Singapore.

As we've mentioned there has been remarkable news from China today. For the first time since the crisis began there in December the country has reported no new domestically transmitted cases.

All new cases confirmed on Wednesday, 34 in all, and most of China's recent cases have been people who came in from other countries - classified as imported cases.

Here's a full list of where they came from by state media outlet Global Times.

Australia is set to ban all non-residents from entering the country, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced.

The order comes into effect from 21:00 local time on Friday (10:00 GMT).

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In less than four hours, the Australian Football League (AFL) will controversially go ahead with its first match of the season.

Last year, the same clash between Richmond and Carlton at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) drew over 85,000 spectators.

This time it will be played to an empty stadium. An 11th-hour decision to continue has delighted many fans - the premier Australian rules competition is massively watched on TV too.

But it has infuriated others. A high-profile ex-player, Sam Newman, called it "probably the most irresponsible sports decision made in recent memory".

AFL chief Gillon McLachlan said: "The reality is that this season will not look like any other... But footy is resilient and footy will find a way through."

Australia has banned gatherings of 100 people or more, but Health Minister Greg Hunt said he had urged AFL chiefs to continue.

"It will provide a huge boost to community morale," he told radio station Triple M.

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The adult magazine Playboy has become another victim of the coronavirus outbreak.

Playboy says it will stop publishing a regular printed edition, external, because disruption to the supply chain caused by the virus has hit its already falling sales.

The magazine has been in print for the last 66 years and at one point sold seven million copies a month.

Playboy was not only struggling with the virus though. The free availability of pornography on the internet had long been leading to falling sales and the magazine was only published quarterly in recent years.

The publishers say they will continue to try to expand Playboy as a digital and social media business.

Some of the symptoms of the virus are quite similar to the common cold or flu - but there is a difference. Watch as the BBC's Laura Foster breaks it down for you, and what to do if you're in the UK and think you might have the virus.

Several Indian celebrities and politicians are taking the #SafeHandsChallenge in an attempt to spread awareness about hygiene amid the coronavirus outbreak in the country. They include film actress Deepika Padukone who was nominated by WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Olympic medallist badminton player PV Sindhu, who recently won the first BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year award, also joined in.

Then there's the Kerala State Police, who released this video of policemen doing a "handwashing dance" to the popular Malayalam song Kalakkatha.

Following an emergency meeting, the Reserve Bank of Australia has cut the nation's official cash rate to a record low of 0.25% from 0.5%.

It's the second cut in weeks, designed to help prop up the economy. Quantitative easing measures, such as the central bank buying government bonds- are also expected to be announced.In the lead-up to the predicted cut, the Australian dollar - normally viewed as a global trade bellwether - dropped to 55.05 cents - the lowest level since 2002, showing anxiety from investors. It has already plunged 20% this year.

As more and more schools close around the world, parents are wrestling with what their children can and can't do.

Should your child go out and play with friends? Or does social distancing mean an end to their playtime?

Read more about this here.

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