If you're in self-isolation or avoiding gyms, you may be wondering how you can continue to stay active. We got a fitness trainer to show us some simple exercises to do while cooped up at home.

The UK's chief negotiator in post-Brexit trade talks, David Frost, is self-isolating after showing symptoms of coronavirus.

It comes a day after the European Union's lead negotiator, Michel Barnier, announced he had tested positive.

A third person has died in Wales after being diagnosed with coronavirus. Aged 71, the person had underlying health conditions. There are 170 confirmed cases in Wales, according to the latest figures, external. As in the rest of the UK, all schools are to shut today.

In England, there have been 128 deaths and 2,756 confirmed cases. Services on the London Underground network have been reduced further as part of efforts to reduce the spread of the outbreak.

Six people have died in Scotland, and there are 266 confirmed cases.

Northern Ireland has 77 confirmed cases, and the first coronavirus-related death was confirmed there yesterday. First Minister Arlene Foster has said she is asking people to "embrace the spirit of Northern Ireland and work together" to combat the outbreak.

We are expecting a briefing from Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to start at 12:30 GMT.

The total number of deaths in Scotland due to Covid-19 currently stands at six.

A man has been arrested for allegedly failing to self-isolate after arriving on the Isle of Man - thought to be the first person held in the British Isles for breaching quarantine rules.

The island passed emergency legislation requiring new arrivals to quarantine themselves for 14 days regardless of symptoms on Tuesday.

The 26-year-old man, who was arrested after failing to self-isolate on arrival, could face a fine of up to £10,000 or three months in prison.

Over in the US, some university students have also been defying warnings. Watch the video below of students flocking to Florida for their spring break.

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Many children across the UK are spending their last day at school for the foreseeable future.

We have been hearing from some of the students who have had their exams cancelled about how they are feeling.

Aurelia Stoddar, a 17-year-old student from Leeds, was due to sit her A-levels in June and says the mood in her college "is quite tense" as they don't know what that means for university applications.

She says she applied to study medicine at university and has "a lot of anxiety".

"This would be the time we would have stopped seeing friends so much and been laser-focused on our exams, so I'm worried I'll be graded on a mock exam I never thought was going to count."

Oliver Todd, from Darlington, was also due to sit exams and says no-one in his sixth-form college "has a clue" what's happening.

He added: "We're missing 18th birthdays and all our lessons together before we all move apart. It's just a very stressful time."

It has become the first German state to order widespread restrictions on personal movement.

Stopping short of imposing a full lockdown, the state prime minister, Markus Soeder, said that, as of Saturday, leaving the house was only allowed with good reason, including going to work, shopping, visits to the doctor or pharmacy, supporting others or visiting partners.

Outdoor sports and activity are still allowed, but only alone or with people from the same household.

As many around the world self-isolate at home, some have been taking to their balconies to sing, dance and serenade their neighbours, like this opera singer and a guitar-toting retiree in Paris.

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After Australia’s devastating bushfires, a tourism campaign urged people to visit the hardest hit areas to help get the economy back on track.

But the president of the Rural Doctors Association of Australia has warned that trying to use those places – and other rural and regional areas – as a bolthole to isolate away from the cities is “a bad idea”.

Many worst-hit places in New South Wales, for example, already have higher-than-average proportions of older people, and few intensive care beds.

“People are thinking they are going to find protection – but if they become unwell they are likely to find themselves in a situation where it’s difficult accessing healthcare," Dr John Hall told the ABC’s Radio National.

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This year's celebrations of Nowruz, the Persian New Year, have been clouded by coronavirus in Iran, where 1,433 people have died and 19,644 have been infected. The authorities are hoping that people will stay at home during a two-week public holiday so that infection rates are reduced significantly.

Elsewhere in the region:

• Saudi Arabia, where 238 people have tested positive, has placed restrictions on worship at Mecca’s Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina - the two holiest sites in Islam. Worshippers will no longer be allowed to pray in the overflow areas outside the mosques. Prayer services at all of the country’s other mosques have already been suspended.
• The Supreme Court in Israel ruled on Thursday night that a parliamentary committee must be set up to oversee the emergency powers given to the Shin Bet internal security agency that allow it to monitor the mobile phones of people with Covid-19 and tell people who may have been in contact with them to self-isolate. The health ministry said on Friday that 705 people were infected.
• In Egypt, where 196 cases and six deaths have been reported, the authorities have released four prominent activists who were demanding that prisoners be freed because of the risk of Covid-19 spreading through jails. Rabah al-Mahdy, Mona Seif, Ahdaf Soueif and Laila Soueif were released from a police station in Cairo on Thursday, the news site Mada Masr reported. They have been charged with taking part in an unlawful protest and spreading false news.

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The big question for investors today is whether China will unleash a huge new economic stimulus programme in its latest attempt to ease the impact of the coronavirus.

There's been speculation that Beijing is set to announce a massive spending boost to support infrastructure investment, backed by as much as $400 billion of local government special bonds.

Economists have been slashing their growth forecasts for China to lows not seen since the Cultural Revolution ended in 1976, with a sharp contraction expected for the first three months of this year after measures to slow the spread of the virus halted much of the country's business activity.

China's economic growth had already hit a near 30-year low of 6.1% last year as it was locked in a bitter trade war with the United States.

Earlier the People's Bank of China unexpectedly kept its main interest rate on hold

In recent days governments and central banks around the world - including the the US, UK and eurozone - announced plans to help ease the impact of the pandemic on their economies.

Malaysia's army has been drafted in to help police enforce a nationwide lockdown as the country battles south-east Asia's largest outbreak.

Defence Minister Ismail Sabri told reporters the decision was taken after people continued to go for walks in parks and eat out in restaurants, despite being asked to restrict their movements.

"We are confident that with the army's help, stricter enforcement can be carried out," he said, according to news agency AFP.

Malaysia has recorded more than 900 cases of the virus, with more than 500 infections stemming from a religious gathering at a mosque near Kuala Lumpur in February.

Two people have died so far.

The government is hoping the two-week lockdown - which has seen all businesses, schools, government offices and religious institutions close down - will help them contain the spread.

Panic-buying? Well, here are a few tips from New South Wales Police Force.

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The Changing of the Guard ceremonies at Buckingham Palace, St James’s Palace and Windsor Castle have been postponed until further notice.

Buckingham Palace said the move was “in line with government advice to avoid mass gatherings”.

The palace added in a statement that the situation would be “reviewed on an ongoing basis, with a view to restarting when appropriate”.

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BBC News, Paris

We are now on day four of the confinement restrictions announced by President Emmanuel Macron.

Under pain of a fine, everyone is told to stay at home unless they have a valid cause.

If you’re stopped by police, you need to have a document with you giving your address and the reason for your trip – which can be one of five:

• Essential work
• Medical
• Urgent family matters
• Food shopping
• A brief excursion for exercise or to walk the dog

If you don’t have the document, or if your reason is deemed to be fake or unsatisfactory, then you are in breach of the law, and thousands of fines have already been imposed.

In the main the orders are being followed, and across the country a strange silence and emptiness have descended – only comparable to what it must have been like in wartime, when normal activity stops and people hunker down at home, venturing out only occasionally to sniff the wind or to stay sane.

Being cooped up with children in a tiny Paris flat or on the 20th floor of a high-rise in the suburbs cannot be fun – and one of the key questions in the weeks ahead (and everyone assumes the fortnight’s confinement announced thus far is only a start) will be how people cope psychologically with this enforced domestic imprisonment.

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All private workplaces in Mumbai barring grocers, pharmacies and other essential services have been ordered to close until 31 March. It is the closest an Indian city has come to a complete shutdown.

Schools, colleges, malls and cinema halls have already closed in both Mumbai and other Indian cities.

There are now 47 active Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra, the state where Mumbai is located. India overall has 206 infections.

Mumbai contributes 6% of India's GDP and 30% of its income tax revenue.

The death toll from the coronavirus in Spain now stands at 1,002, authorities say. Nearly 20,000 people have been infected while 1,588 people recovered.

While most of us have never before faced self-isolation, there are some people who have - astronauts (and scientists researching astronauts)!

Doctor Beth Healey spent a year on the remote Concordia station in Antarctica, researching the effects of physical and pyschological isolation on people for the European Space Agency.

And now she has to isolate herself for a second time due to coronavirus. She's tweeted that she'll be offering her tips in the coming weeks.

If you want answers right now, readour guide to self-isolating and social distancing.Meanwhile if you're looking for something to entertain the family, theEuropean Space Agency science office has been sharing cartoons about their missions, external.

The Chinese territory says it has recorded 48 new cases of the virus, its biggest daily jump.

Medical experts have warned of the renewed risk of a sustained outbreak because of residents returning from overseas, the South China Morning Post reports, external.

“This is the worst time to relax because we’re at the highest risk since this began,” said Prof Gabriel Leung, dean of the University of Hong Kong’s medical faculty and a member of an official expert panel on the outbreak.

“It is absolutely critical especially as we have this influx of Hong Kong returnees starting from a few days ago and continuing for the next few days. This is the highest risk and we must be extra vigilant.”

Hong Kong has had 208 cases confirmed so far and four deaths, Reuters news agency reports.

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Former UK nurses and doctors have been asked to come to the help of the NHS during this crisis - and one of those to answer the call is Conservative MP Maria Caulfield.

She says she will be returning to her job as a nurse alongside her political role.

The MP for Lewes in East Sussex says she has kept her nursing registration and uniform since she became an MP in 2015 and it "will be very easy to get back into the swing of things".