Dr Jenny Harries, the deputy chief medical officer for England, points out that there has been a "surge" in the number of new cases in the UK over the past 24 hours, but adds that the cases will need to be watched over time.

"As our testing capacity increases, inevitably we will find more cases," she says.

Speaking about hospital admissions, she adds that all hospitals have capacity to "manage these cases".

"We're hoping in due course… that those cases will start to fall," she says.

Dr Jenny Harries, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, has been showing slides showing changes in the number of new UK cases, hospital admissions in England, transport use and how the number of UK deaths compares with other countries.

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England's health secretary had a message for those flouting the social distancing rules in the sunshine this weekend.

"You are risking your own life and the lives of others, and you are making it hard for us all."

"All the things we miss... we will have again", says Matt Hancock, referring to people missing going to the pub, or seeing relatives.

He says he is aware that it is a cruel fact that coronavirus "thrives on social contact and the bonds that bring so much to human life - all the things we miss right now".

He says that, as the father of young children, he appreciates how difficult it is to have to stay inside.

Mr Hancock says that it is "mission critical" that the public follows the government's rules.

"The more people follow the rules, the faster we will all be through it," the health secretary says.

He has asked people to "join together in tough times" to do so.

Mr Hancock says he "cannot rule out further steps" being introduced in terms of social distancing - but none are imminent, as the vast majority of people are following the rules.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has started speaking in the daily government briefing at Downing Street.

We'll bring you updates as they happen.

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If you followed the news on Friday, you'll know the UK government instructed people to ignore the tempting warmer weather and stay inside. Following reports of crowded parks this weekend, the heath secretary warned on Sunday that the government may resort to banning outdoor exercise.

Brockwell park in south London was closed on Sunday after more than 3,000 people visited the previous day. Meanwhile police forces across the country asked communities to stay home.

"It's supposed to be nice and sunny today, but please remember the social distancing guidelines and where possible stay home," tweeted Merseyside police.

Edinburgh police thanked residents, tweeting that the usually busy park the Meadows was "nice and clear", external when they drove through on Sunday.

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The government's daily coronavirus briefing is set to begin at 16:00 BST.

It'll be led by Health Secretary Matt Hancock, and comes as the total number of UK deaths has reached 4,934.

We don't know what Mr Hancock is going to say, but this morning he warned that exercise outside the home could be banned if people ignore social distancing rules.

In yesterday's briefing, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said a five-year-old child with underlying health conditions had died, and warned people to stay home despite the warm weather this weekend.

Speaking alongside him, NHS England medical director Stephen Powis said there was some evidence that social distancing measures were reducing transmission - but stressed that there was "no room for complacency".

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Former Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril has died of coronavirus in an Egyptian hospital, local media report.

Jibril’s political party, the National Forces' Alliance, said he had tested positive for the virus on 26 March. Jibril's own Facebook page has now been updated with an Islamic message used after someone has died.

Born in 1952, Jibril was a Western-educated politician who defected to the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) at the beginning of Libya's 2011 uprising against long-term leader Muammar Gaddafi.

He went on to serve as NTC prime minister until October the same year.

His National Forces Alliance led in Libya's 2012 election, the country's first democratic poll in decades.

A former Formula 1 team boss is spearheading a campaign to deliver one million meals in three months for NHS frontline staff treating coronavirus in UK hospitals.

Ron Dennis, who was the team principal of the McLaren team, devised the project 10 days ago and is set to launch it this week at Oxford’s John Radcliffe hospital.

Dennis, 72, said he had been inspired to do something after his anaesthetist daughter told him about the little time frontline workers have to eat.

"Most were eating cereal with milk after their shifts and went to bed," he told BBC News.

"Now literally in 10 days we’ve created the ‘Salute the NHS’ i, externalnitiative."

Dennis said he was aware of similar projects but wanted to do something on a larger scale, adding that he hoped to produce 10,000 meals a day. He also said he was in discussions with the UK government about which hospitals to target.

Many institutions, including restaurants currently closed because of the lockdown, have already been delivering meals to hospitals around the UK.

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BBC News South Asia correspondent

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In the battle against coronavirus, access to reliable information is key. But hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims in the world’s largest refugee camp, near Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh, are cut off from the outside world.

“We don't know about coronavirus. We heard that people can't stay close to each other, but our home is too small we so we don’t know how we can maintain distance,” said Saydur Rahman whose family fled Myanmar after their village was burned down.

Last September the government suspended 3G and 4G networks in the camps, citing security reasons. Louise Donovan from UN refugee agency in Cox’s Bazar told the BBC they’re urging the government to re-establish connections - a number of human rights group have also written to the country’s Prime Minister asking the same.

A lockdown has been in place in the camps for more than a week, and aid agencies are now only entering to deliver essential services to avoid spread of the virus. So far no cases have been reported from within the camps but there has been one case recorded in nearby Cox’s Bazar.

There are fears that if the virus enters the densely populated areas, it would spread with lethal speed. More isolation beds are being built to cope with an outbreak, but currently there isn’t a single ventilator in the camps, which are home to nearly a million people.

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US Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned on Sunday of a deeply challenging week ahead.

“This is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans’ lives,” he told Fox News Sunday.

“This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment and our 9/11 moment only it’s not going to be localised - it’s going to be happening all over the country,” he continued.

Adams is the latest US official to warn of challenges over the coming days.

On Saturday, President Donald Trump told Americans to prepare for the "toughest week" of the pandemic yet.

There are currently over 312,000 cases in the US and over 8,400 deaths.

Robert Cuffe
BBC head of statistics

Both last weekend and the weekend before that, reported deaths fell on the Sunday only for the backlog of reporting to come through in a Tuesday spike. So we should wait a few days before reading too much into these figures.

It is the second day in a row of below-trend growth. The long-term trend has been a doubling every three-and-a-half-days, which would put us above 900 deaths on Sunday. Any number below that is welcome, but we won't know for a few days whether it's a real fall or delays in reporting.

There has also been a consistent slowdown in the growth of confirmed cases since last weekend. Saturday's number of new cases even fell slightly. But they have risen again in the latest figures.

Scientists have warned that these figures could rise again this week, but that could be because of how we test for cases as opposed to an increase in infection rates.

Up until the end of March, testing was largely limited to patients in hospital. As the government tests more and more NHS staff, we could expect to see more confirmed cases even if the number of people sick in hospital with coronavirus goes down.

We'll only get a clear picture of what's happening "if the government report the number of new confirmed cases in NHS workers separately from cases in patients", says Keith Neal, an epidemiologist at the University of Nottingham.

The latest UK figures show a slight fall in the number of daily recorded deaths connected with Covid-19, from 708 fatalities reported on Saturday to 621 on Sunday.

As regards confirmed cases, the total is now 47,806, a rise of 5,903 from the previous day. This is higher than the daily increase of 3,735 reported on Saturday.

In the UK, key workers - including NHS staff, shop workers, public transport drivers and prison staff - have been keeping essential services running.

Over the last two weeks, a number of these workers have died after being exposed to coronavirus.

On Sunday John Alagos, a 24-year-old nursing assistant, became the third nurse to die in the line of duty. He was caring for coronavirus patients at Watford General Hospital.

Tracey Carter, chief nurse at the hospital, said: "John was very popular and will be missed greatly by his colleagues."

His death followed those of Areema Nasreen, who worked at Walsall Manor Hospital, and Aimee O'Rourke, who was a nurse at QEQM hospital in Margate.

Four doctors - Dr Alfa Saadu, 68, Amged el-Hawrani, 55, and Adil El Tayar, 64 and Dr Habib Zaidi, 76 - also died in the last 10 days.

Five bus workers in London died from the virus - three drivers and two controllers. In a statement, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he was devastated to hear of their deaths.

Two staff members at Pentonville Prison in north London also died after suffering from coronavirus symptoms. Bovil Peter and Patrick Beckford, believed to be in their 60s, were support workers at the jail.

Mark Fairhurst, national chairman of the Prison Officers' Association (POA), said: "This [virus] puts us all at risk. We are on the front line doing a commendable job on behalf of society."

Staff at the prison also paid tribute with a minute's silence, PA news agency reported.

Michelle Roberts
Health editor, BBC News online

Japan is said to be increasing its stockpile of a flu drug that scientists believe could help treat Covid-19.

The drug, called Avigan or favipiravir, was used by doctors in China to treat some of the first patients in Wuhan, where the coronavirus outbreak began.

Two trials in the country suggested the drug shortened recovery time. Local media say Japan is hoping to triple production from current levels, so that there will be enough to treat 2m people.

The drug is made by a subsidiary of camera company Fujifilm. It has begun clinical trials that will run until the end of June. The therapy is still unproven and may have side effects, experts warn, but it is one of many being explored to fight the virus.

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A total of 4,934 people have died from the virus in UK hospitals so far, up from 4,313 the previous day - 47,806 people have now tested positive.

The total number of confirmed coronavirus deaths in England is now 4,494, NHS England says. That is a rise of 555 on the previous day's update.

The patients were aged between 33 years and 103 years old. Twenty-nine of them - aged between 35 and 95 years old - had no known underlying health condition.

Daily figures for the whole of the UK are expected later this afternoon.

People in Kenya are saying they're being treated inhumanely in mandatory quarantine.

More than 2,000 Kenyans and foreigners were ordered to stay in hotels and government facilities after arriving in the country. Now, in facilities where there's been a confirmed case of coronavirus, the quarantine period is being extended from 14 days to one month.

Some have said they're being treated like prisoners, and are asking why the isolation period should be extended. They've previously complained that they haven't had access to basics, such as soap and water.

But Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe accused people of breaking the rules, and even of having parties while in isolation.

There are 126 confirmed cases of the virus in Kenya.