Summary

  • President Trump says there are difficult days ahead for the nation

  • His news conference is focused on fighting drug cartels, which officials say are exploiting the pandemic

  • The number to have died in the UK rises, by 563 to 2,352

  • UK intends to raise testing to the hundreds of thousands "within weeks"

  • Wimbledon cancelled for first time since World War Two

  • Spanish death toll up by 864 as Europe passes another grim milestone in the pandemic

  • The official death toll in Iran is now more than 3,000

  • There are now more than 800,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 around the world

Live Reporting

Max Matza, Jessica Murphy, Robert Greenall, Tom Spender, Claudia Allen, Andreas Illmer, Frances Mao, Saira Asher, Tessa Wong, Owen Amos, Krutika Pathi, Henri Astier and David Walker

  1. What's happening in Australia

    Frances Mao
    Sydney

    Police and army officers patrolling the streets of SydneyNSW POLICE

    Police and army officers patrolling the streets of Sydney

    G'day from Sydney. Australia's cases have risen past 4,700 while 20 elderly people have died.

    Here's a quick rundown:

    • There is much outrage over new laws restricting people from going outside, after police were filmed in Sydney driving through parks and ordering people sitting down (away from others) to leave
    • It reflects public confusion over what a lockdown means in Australia. Schools and shopping centres remain open but it is now against the law to sit in a park. PM Scott Morrison has steered away from using the word "lockdown" but state leaders have used the word liberally
    • Several cases have been reported this week among supermarket and retail workers
    • And the government is flying Australian seafood exports to Asian nations in a $110m bid to prop up the fishing industry
    • Planes will return from these nations carrying Canberra’s orders for medical supplies and equipment – an interesting development given local media reports alleging businesses in China are raiding Australia’s supplies
    • And the Guardian newspaper has reported that infected passengers let off the Ruby Princess cruise ship in downtown Sydney last month now make up almost a tenth of Australia’s cases

  2. Please join us throughout the day

    Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the coronavirus crisis. Our reporters around the globe will bring you the latest developments as they happen, as well as information to help keep you safe.

    With global cases now exceeding 850,000, with 42,000 deaths, the coming weeks are crucial.

    For the first time, the US death toll – now at least 3,400 - has surpassed the figure reported in China.

    President Donald Trump has just warned of a “very, very painful two weeks”. Officials there have predicted that between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans will die in the outbreak.

    In the UK, a 13-year-old boy who contracted the virus has died. He is thought to be the youngest victim in the UK, which has just reported 381 more deaths – its biggest daily increase yet.

    Spain, too, has recorded its highest number of fatalities with 849.