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People are being warned to stay away from England's beauty spots amid the coronavirus lockdown, despite expected warm weather as Easter approaches.

Pleas have been issued from the Yorkshire Dales and the Peak District in the north, down to the south coast.

In the Peak District, the message is that even if the sun comes out people should not travel. Meanwhile, in Southend-on-Sea, tourism bosses have rebranded PR material "Don't Visit Southend".

A further 684 people have died with coronavirus in the UK over a day, latest Department of Health figures show., external

The total death toll now stands at 3,605, as of 17:00 BST on 2 April.

More people have now died with coronavirus in the UK than China, where the official death toll is currently 3,326, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University., external

Tributes have been paid to a British nurse and "fantastic role model" who has died with coronavirus.

Areema Nasreen, 36, had been placed on a ventilator at Walsall Manor Hospital, where she worked in the acute medical unit.

Dr Samara Afzal, a GP in Birmingham who knew Ms Nasreen, told the BBC that she was "very bubbly [and] full of life".

"She was a fantastic role model to Asian women, she married young and had children but then wanted to pursue her dream in nursing," she said. "She was completely dedicated to it, she'd go out of her way to help people."

Fellow nurse Rubi Aktar said Ms Nasreen "was the most loveliest, genuine person you could ever meet".

Health Secretary Matt Hancock, meanwhile, said her death showed "the incredible bravery of every member of the NHS who goes into work knowing that these dangers are there".

Celebrating your birthday while under lockdown isn't very easy or fun, so one American woman decided to spring a surprise on her fiancé.

Hannah Chung and Jason Shields had moved into their new home in Los Angeles just weeks before social distancing rules came into effect.

When Jason's birthday rolled round soon after, Hannah roped in their neighbours for a celebration. Have a watch.

Prince Charles has paid tribute to all those involved in transforming the ExCel exhibition centre in London into a hospital in just nine days.

The temporary NHS Nightingale Hospital is able to hold as many as 4,000 coronavirus patients and will be staffed with help from the military.

Prince Charles said: "I want to say a very big thank you to the planners, the builders, the armed forces, the generous companies and organisations that have donated equipment and services and all the support staff who have made this possible."

Prince Charles, who has recovered after testing positive for coronavirus, also praised healthcare workers for all their efforts in the fight against the virus.

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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish town with one of the highest rates of coronavirus cases in Israel has been placed under effective lockdown.

Residents of Bnei Brak, which is just outside Tel Aviv, will only be allowed out in exceptional circumstances. Only some key workers will be allowed in.

A senior health official said almost 40% of the town's 200,000 inhabitants probably had the virus.

Overall, more than 7,000 Israelis have been infected and at least 37 have died.

Read more here.

During the coronavirus pandemic, some of the BBC’s best-known voices are reading one poem a day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

Presenters and reporters are sharing poems that are personal to them and have brought them comfort and hope during a dark time.

In the latest edition, Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen has chosen Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas.

He says the poem hung in his childhood home and reminds him of his father.

Karishma Vaswani
Asia business correspondent

Up till now, the government in Singapore has used a calibrated approach to containment: circuit breakers as it has called them, gradually restricting the things we can do here.

But Friday's new measures [which we reported on earlier] are the most drastic Singapore has seen to date - a sign that this city state that has been lauded for its efforts to contain the virus is struggling to keep it in check.

With over 1,000 cases and five deaths, the government has decided that from next week schools and most workplaces will be shut.

Singapore’s government in its typically planned approach to virus containment has been preparing for this by penalising companies not allowing staff to work from home if they can, and putting in place home-based learning for students on a trial basis.

Singapore has now joined a whole host of other countries that are keeping people mostly indoors to tackle the virus. These measures are still only advisories - but enforcement agents will be standing by to ensure people don’t gather or go out unnecessarily.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he will remain in self-isolation as he is still showing symptoms of coronavirus.

In a video on social media, he said: “Although I’m feeling better and I’ve done my seven days of isolation, alas, I still have one of the symptoms, a minor symptom, I still have a temperature.

“And so in accordance with government advice, I must continue my self-isolation until that symptom itself goes."

Grace Tsoi
BBC World Service, Hong Kong

Today I completed two weeks of compulsory self-isolation in Hong Kong after returning from a trip to London on 20 March.

The day before I arrived home, the government had asked all travellers, including residents, to quarantine at home for 14 days upon their return - as Hong Kong saw a spike in imported cases of Covid-19.

Foreign visitors are now banned from entering the city.

After landing, we were asked to submit health declaration forms and download an app which could track our locations. Officials gave us paper wristbands with a QR code. I waited for almost five hours to get a text message to activate the app.

I also got tested for coronavirus. I hadn't displayed any symptoms but I couldn't be sure I was uninfected.

At home, my husband and I decided to sleep in separate rooms and ate meals at different times.

I also wore a face mask. When we talked, we made sure we were at least one metre apart in our 28 sq m home.

The special arrangement lasted for a few days. Fortunately, I never got the dreaded call with a positive result.

I am still planning to spend most of my time at home - despite finishing quarantine. We all have to play our part to help flatten the curve.

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The deadliest peak of the UK's coronavirus outbreak could be on Easter Sunday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.

Asked about reports that the death rate could peak on 12 April, Mr Hancock told Sky: "I defer to the scientists on the exact predictions, I'm not going to steer you away from that.

"That is one perfectly possible outcome."

According to the most recent figures from Thursday, 2,921 people in the UK have died with the virus. The total rose by 569 from 2,352 the day before, which was the biggest day-on-day increase so far.

Anna Holligan
BBC Hague correspondent

The European police agency has warned that changes in how we live and work in response to coronavirus are making us more vulnerable to certain crimes.

Europol's report, entitled Catching the Virus, shows the impact of the pandemic has so far been most visible in cybercrime.

Distribution of child sexual exploitation material appears to be on the rise and in some countries there has been an increase in adult offenders trying to make contact with children on social media.

The report warns that parents working from home, giving their children unrestricted access to the internet, makes young people more vulnerable to predators online.

There is also a danger social distancing measures will result in a rise in teenagers sharing graphic images of themselves with their peers or strangers.

The European crime fighting agency also highlights an increase in disinformation, which it said could undermine efforts to prevent the virus spreading.

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As millions of people around the world adjust to working from home and travelling less frequently, roads and public transport systems have become noticeably quieter.

But that's had some unintended consequences.

In New Zealand, the reduction in traffic and the focus on social distancing measures has led to more people walking in the road rather than on then pavement.

This can be dangerous, and so the government has launched a $7m (£3.3m; $4.1m USD) pilot fund to help councils reallocate road space and make safe travel easier during the Covid-19 outbreak.

"Projects could be anything from piloting a new walking or cycling facility to... trialling a low-traffic neighbourhood or reallocating more street space for people," a statement announcing the fund said.

New Zealand has so far reported nearly 900 cases of the coronavirus.

Teachers in England will be asked to decide the grades they think pupils would have achieved in cancelled GCSE and A-level exams.

This will be used by exam boards to award results - along with a ranking order by ability of each pupil in a school, also to be sent in by teachers, by 29 May.

The grades could be changed if schools seem too generous or harsh, and to make the overall distribution of grades consistent with other years.

All exams have been cancelled because of the coronavirus crisis.

Students who are unhappy with their grades will have the chance to sit the exams as soon as reasonably possible after schools reopen - or in the summer of 2021.

Read more here.

London's ExCeL exhibition centre, normally a venue for trade shows and conferences, has been converted into a temporary NHS hospital with space for 4,000 beds, in just nine days.

The facility was built with the help of up to 200 soldiers a day, working alongside NHS staff and contractors.

Architects were coming up with designs almost as building needed to get under way, one who worked on the project told the BBC.

Read more here.

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Syria’s government has widened a curfew in all areas under its control. No-one will be permitted to leave their homes between 12:00 and 06:00 on Fridays and Saturdays, external - the national weekend.

It has also sealed off the Shia Muslim shrine of Sayyida Zeinab in Damascus. It attracts thousands of pilgrims from Iran, the worst-hit country in the Middle East.

The government has reported 16 cases of Covid-19 and two deaths.

In other developments in the Middle East:

Jordan, which has reported 299 cases and five deaths, has imposed a 24-hour nationwide curfew, external. A minister said it would allow epidemiological investigation teams to reach and test those who had been contact with infected people.

Iraq’s Media Commission has banned Reuters news agency from operating for three months after a report cited doctors involved in testing as saying there were thousands of confirmed Covid-19 cases, external, many times more than the 772 the health ministry has publicly recorded. The commission called the report “false, fabricated and unfounded”.

It's easy enough to wash your hands and stay away from people when you have running water and your own living space.

Across the world, thousands of refugees and migrants are living in camps that are often unsanitary and crowded, and it's not easy to avoid catching the virus.

In Moria in Lesbos, 18,000 people are staying in a facility built for 3,000 and cases of Covid-19 are already on their doorstep.

The BBC's population correspondent, Stephanie Hegarty, was sent footage by a group of young filmmakers living in the settlement, who had recorded scenes of migrants doing their best to keep people safe.

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Indigenous people in Malaysia are fleeing into the country's forests to avoid the coronavirus outbreak, Reuters news agency reports.

It comes after the first indigenous Orang Asli person was confirmed to have the virus last week.

In the central village of Jemeri, the entrance has already been barricaded with logs.

Resident and activist Bedul Chemai said: “We are going back into the forest to isolate ourselves and to find food for ourselves. We know how to get food from the forests and there are things we can plant there.”

Orang Asli are descendants of the earliest known inhabitants of peninsular Malaysia and are said to be among the poorest in the country.

Poverty and malnutrition makes them vulnerable to disease. Last year 15 people in one village died from measles.

Malaysia has 3,333 confirmed cases of the virus, the highest in Southeast Asia and 53 deaths.

At the official opening of London’s NHS Nightingale, chief nursing officer Ruth May thanked “all the nurses, midwives and careworkers across the whole of the NHS and social care”.

“They’ve been working around the clock to ensure that we’re providing the care that we need to,” she said.

Ms May said it was “very fitting” that the hospital was named after Florence Nightingale, who she described as an “iconic nursing leader of her time”.

“She was also a pioneer for infection control and having her name heading up this hospital here is absolutely fitting,” she said.

She added: “So thank you to all those nurses also that are coming back and supporting our efforts.

“It’s not just our NHS staff that are in this, we are all in this together. I would urge you to stay home and please wash your hands.”

English Health Secretary Matt Hancock has hailed the construction of a new temporary hospital in London as an "extraordinary project" that shows the "best of Britain".

"This hospital - which was put together in 9 days - is a testament to the people who stand behind me," he said at its opening on Friday morning.

London's Nightingale Hospital has the capacity for as many as 4,000 critically ill patients with coronavirus. It is located in the converted ExCeL exhibition centre.

"In these troubled times, with this invisible killer stalking the whole world, the NHS is more valuable than ever before," Mr Hancock said.

"Together as a nation we can come through this crisis," he added.