We're expecting the daily Downing St press conference to start in about 10 minutes, at 17:00 BST.

PM Boris Johnson is still working from home, having been diagnosed with coronavirus, so today's conference is being led by Minister for the Cabinet Office Michael Gove.

He'll be joined by Dr Jenny Harries, England's deputy chief medical officer, and NHS England's national medical director, Dr Stephen Powis.

We're expecting lots of questions on testing for the virus, after confusion about figures and why the UK has taken a different approach to some other countries.

Here is an update to the latest figures for people who have died with coronavirus in the UK, according to official figures released by Public Health England.

Some 1,789 patients have died in UK hospitals after testing positive for coronavirus as of 17:00 BST on Monday, according to the Department of Health.

According to PHE's figures, that is up by 381 from the day before - the biggest day-on-day rise by some way. But this may not include any deaths that have happened after 17:00 on 30 March.

That day-on-day death figure was 27% higher than the previous day.

Razia Iqbal
Presenter, Newshour, BBC World Service

The coronavirus death toll in the United States has exceeded 3,000, according to state and county health agencies - more than the number of people who died in the initial September 11, 2001, attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has written to nine football clubs in England's capital city to ask for their assistance in the fight against coronavirus.

He has asked clubs in the top two divisions, including Arsenal, Chelsea and West Ham, for access to team doctors, physios, paramedics and other clinically trained staff, as well as stadiums and accommodation.

Tottenham are not included as they are already helping City Hall.

Mr Khan said: “As we work together to tackle the threat of coronavirus, the community spirit of London’s football clubs has shone through.

"Many have already offered support and are assisting the response in their local communities.

"This week, I have written to the capital’s Premier League and Championship clubs outlining what they can do to help our fantastic NHS and I’m grateful for the hugely positive response we have received.”

The daily UK press conference is due to begin at 17:00 BST.

We are expecting to hear from:

• Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove
• Deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries
• NHS England national medical director Dr Stephen Powis

While we’re waiting for it to start here is a roundup of the news from the UK:

• 393 people have died with the virus in the UK in the last 24 hours
• UK police officers have been told to take a "consistent" approach when ensuring people comply with emergency measures aimed at curbing coronavirus. This follows criticism of how some forces have handled the new measures
• Supermarkets Aldi, Morrisons and Waitrose are easing restrictions on the number of items customers can buy. The limits had originally been introduced to stop people panic buying
• British Airways is to suspend all flights to and from London's Gatwick airport amid a collapse in demand due to the coronavirus
• The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) is asking the government for financial assistance of up to £250m to help the industry avoid collapse

The UK is sending a small team of six military medics to the Falkland Islands because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Two intensive care beds, oxygen, face masks, and medicines are also being sent to the overseas territory, and are expected to arrive on Tuesday.

A military planning team is also "dedicated to tackling a Covid-19 outbreak on the Falkland Islands", according to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) website.

An MoD spokeswoman said the medical team has been deployed "to support existing defence medical facilities on the Falkland Islands".

She added that the MoD is working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and other government departments to support overseas territories.

Jonathan Marcus
BBC diplomatic and defence correspondent

War and pestilence have combined to create disaster throughout history, and as the coronavirus slowly begins to penetrate the Middle East, the human and political consequences could be devastating.

The virus has already arrived in the region. Israel is already beginning to struggle with the potential consequences of the pandemic.

It is facing the self-same problems experienced in Western Europe and the United States. So, too, is Iran, which has been hit even harder. It has a rapidly rising death toll, with few analysts believing the official mortality figures.

However, the Middle East has some specific problems that may exacerbate the crisis.

Read more from Jonathan here.

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If you're an Olympic swimmer and a pandemic closes the pools, do you just give up? No, of course not - Dutch gold medalist Sharon van Rouwendaal has invented a training method using an inflatable paddling pool and a rope tied around her waist.

The 26-year-old said she swam for 45 minutes before it got too cold. Her Instagram video is being praised for showing creativity in the face of a crisis.

It's not perfect, though. "The pool is 0.7m... I touch the ground a little bit with my fingers," she admitted.

Don't worry, we're cheering you on, Sharon.

The coronavirus pandemic started in China late last year but restrictions there have been relaxed as the number of new cases drops.

Residents are allowed out in the streets, but have their temperature taken at points around cities and are still wearing masks.

BBC World Service spoke to people in Beijing and Shanghai to see if things are going back to normal...

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Frontline NHS staff in the UK on visas will be given an automatic one-year extension to help the UK battle the coronavirus.

Home Secretary Priti Patel said doctors, nurses and paramedics whose visas were due to run out before 1 October would be given the 12-month extension free of charge so they could “focus fully on combatting coronavirus and saving lives”.

The new measure will apply to around 2,800 immigrants working in the health service, and will be extended to their family members “demonstrating how valued overseas NHS staff are to the UK”.

Ms Patel also confirmed the Home Office would lift the restriction on the number of hours student nurses and doctors can work in the NHS to make more staff available.

She said: “Doctors, nurses and paramedics from all over the world are playing a leading role in the NHS’s efforts to tackle coronavirus and save lives. We owe them a great deal of gratitude for all that they do."

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Badly hit European countries such as Italy and Spain are hoping the peak of their outbreaks are on the horizon, but others are introducing new restrictions to control the spread.

In Poland, parks, beaches, squares and other public areas are to close. Essential workers must wear gloves and use work stations at least 1.5m (5ft) apart.

The new measures also mean supermarkets will only be allowed to let in three customers at a time for each checkout it operates. Poland has recorded 2,132 cases with 31 deaths; the new restrictions will last for at least two weeks.

Sweden, meanwhile, has been a bit of an odd one out in Europe by avoiding lockdowns or tight restrictions. That’s changing, though - the government has now formally banned visits to care homes for the elderly, after banning gatherings of more than 50 people. Sweden has nearly 4,500 cases and 180 deaths.

A key focus for Sweden's Public Health Agency now is trying to persuade Swedes to avoid travelling during the upcoming Easter weekend, when many typically flock to country cabins and cottages. Ministers have promised to expand testing of healthcare and emergency workers.

Seven more people have died in Wales after testing positive for coronavirus - taking the total to 69, Public Health Wales has said.

In its latest daily announcement, the NHS body said there had been 112 new confirmed cases, with the total number now at 1,563.

Six more people have died from coronavirus in Northern Ireland, bringing the total to 28.

The Public Health Agency said another 53 cases had been confirmed, meaning the total number of infections is now 586.

Full UK figures for Tuesday have not yet been released, with the Republic of Ireland figures also due later.

Airports are calling for government assistance after revenues fell to almost nothing, according to the Airport Operators Association.

Karen Dee, the trade body's chief executive, says even though commercial demand has dried up, airports still have to stay open for medical, military and freight flights.

The government's furlough scheme can only ease pressure to a limited extent, she adds, since staff are needed to operate the airports.

"The key thing about airports, we are safety critical businesses and about 70-80% of the cost of running an airport are fixed," she says.

"That doesn't change whether it is one flight coming in or 100 flights.

Ms Dee called on the government to adjust the current support schemes so they could "better suit the airports needs" and called for "targeted support" so airports could preserve expenditure.

A British D-Day veteran, who was awarded France's highest military honour, has died after contracting coronavirus.

Harold Pearsall, of Tamworth, Staffordshire, tested positive for Covid-19 while at hospital in Birmingham on Friday and died on Sunday aged 97.

Mr Pearsall, who took part in the Allied assault on Caen in 1944, received the Légion d'Honneur in 2015.

Read more here.

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A spokesman for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been briefing reporters about the government’s latest efforts to tackle the coronavirus crisis.

He addressed the issue of protective gear, following criticisms from National Health Service (NHS) staff who say there is a shortage of gowns, masks and goggles.

The spokesman said 170 million items of personal protective equipment (PPE) has been delivered to hospitals, GP surgeries and pharmacies over the last two weeks.

He said on Monday that NHS trusts received 2.5 million aprons, 870,000 eye protectors, 218,000 protective masks, one million surgical masks and 11 million gloves.

There has been widespread concern and anger at the shortages of PPE for doctors and nurses, who say they feel at risk from coronavirus.

But the Downing Street spokesman played down suggestions of shortages, saying he had “not seen anything to suggest we don’t have enough”.

He said “the full weight of government” was behind the effort to deliver PPE and that the Army was helping with deliveries.

Read more: UK ‘wasting time’ on NHS protective gear orders

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M Ilyas Khan
BBC News, Islamabad

At least 50 men have been sent to an isolation centre after being found hiding inside a shipping container on the back of a truck travelling across Pakistan.

The men were discovered by authorities in Chiniot region of Punjab, more than 1,000km (620 miles) from the city of Karachi, where the truck started its journey.

Though goods transport is allowed to operate in order to ensure adequate supply of essential items across the country, the truck was waved down on suspicion stemming from some recent reports.

Videos shared on social media in recent days have shown migrant workers stuck in Karachi - Pakistan's largest city - paying goods transporters to ship them secretly to their home areas in Punjab and KP.

The containers are loaded on to trailer trucks and are passed off as carrying essential provisions. One picture showed dozens of people crawling out the back of a truck in the Mardan region, some 140km from the capital Islamabad.

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As the coronavirus pandemic has worsened, misinformation has spread as widely and as rapidly as the disease itself.

Social media networks, from Facebook to Twitter, have been under pressure to stamp out medical misinformation on their platforms.

In response, both say they will take a tougher stance, even against posts shared by world leaders.

On Monday, Facebook and Twitter said they removed a video posted by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

Read the full story here: World leaders' posts deleted over fake news

In it, Bolsonaro made the unfounded claim that hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug touted by US President Donald Trump, was totally effective in treating Covid-19.

Hydroxychloroquine and a related compound, chloroquine, are unproven, experimental treatments.

It is rare for social media networks to delete posts by world leaders, but the coronavirus pandemic has forced them to root-out misinformation more aggressively.

For more about misinformation, read our coverage:

• Here's how you can stop bad information from going viral
• How bad information goes viral

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People in England are allowed to go for as many walks a day as they want, according to a human rights barrister who says the law does not match the government advice.

Adam Wagner of Doughty Street Chambers told BBC News that the law referred to having a "reasonable excuse" to leave your house - rather than the four reasons Boris Johnson gave in last week's briefing.

"The four reasons is the guidance people are following. In fact that’s the guidance a lot of police are following," he said.

"But the government guidance doesn’t include a number of very important points - for example if you’re at fear of harm that’s a reasonable excuse [to leave your house].

"I’m not sure the police or government have been very clear with what people can do or what will land them with a fine of up to £960 for repeated offences or even a criminal conviction.

"There are no legal restrictions on going out for more than one walk [or piece of exercise] a day in England."

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A 12-year-old girl is thought to be the youngest victim in Europe of the coronavirus pandemic.

"We have today a difficult message to announce, emotionally it's a difficult moment because it involves a child," virologist Emmanuel André said on Tuesday. "It's a rare event and we're very distressed by it."

The girl had a fever for three days but her condition then worsened. She has not been named but her school in Ghent is said to be in close contact with her parents as well as other pupils' families. Belgium has lost 705 people to the pandemic and has almost 5,000 more in hospital.

A 14-year-old died in Portugal and a girl of 16 called Julie died last week in Paris. While the elderly are by far the most vulnerable to Covid-19, the latest death in Belgium is evidence of all ages being at risk.