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The top medical adviser to the Scottish government has been cautioned by police after ignoring social distancing guidelines and going to her second house over the weekend.

Scotland Police chief constable Iain Livingstone said officers visited Dr Catherine Calderwood and "spoke to her about her actions, reiterated crucial advice and issued a warning about her future conduct, all of which she accepted".

Dr Calderwood said she apologised "unreservedly" but Scottish Labour's health spokeswoman, Monica Lennon, has led calls for her to resign.

Electronic tags are being used in Bahrain to track quarantined and self-isolating coronavirus cases.

Everyone suspected to be infected must wear the white tags, which are similar to wrist watches, and are linked to an app.

If a patient moves more than 15m away from their smartphone, a message is sent to the authorities - and offenders could face three months in jail or a fine of up to $26,000 (£20,000).

The country has had four deaths from the virus, and 261 confirmed cases.

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With the Vatican in lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Pope has been taking a Palm Sunday service.

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The measures introduced to deal with the outbreak in Italy mean only a few people were able to attend the service in St Peter's Basilica in Rome.

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Malawi President Peter Mutharika is taking a 10% cut to his $3,600-a-month (£3,000) salary for three months to release money to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.

Government ministers are also having their wages reduced by the same percentage.

Malawi, which has declared a state of emergency, reported its first cases of Covid-19 on Thursday - one of the last countries to do so.

There is no lockdown but schools are closed and the government is urging people to work from home and follow social-distancing guidelines.

All social gatherings of more than 100 people, such as funerals, church services and political rallies, have been banned.

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With many countries now in lockdown, people have been ordered to stay indoors, maintaining distance from everyone except those they live with.

But what about victims of domestic abuse, who are now being forced to quarantine with their abusers?

Last weekend, calls to the UK's national abuse hotline went up by 65%. The UN has also warned that women in poorer countries and smaller homes are likely to have fewer ways to report abuse. And abuse charities all over the world have reported spikes in visits to their websites.

The BBC's gender and identity correspondent Megha Mohan spoke to two women - one in India and one in New York - who are currently in lockdown with men who they say have abused them. Read their stories here.

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Science editor, BBC News

Suddenly the phrase "exit strategy" is being bandied about - but what does it mean and what might be involved?

In simple terms, it’s a way of describing how we get on top of the pandemic and feel confident about allowing life to return to normal.

But this new virus is spreading in ways that are not always predictable and the risk is that relaxing controls too early will see new surges.

The scientist in charge of modelling the outbreak at Imperial College London, Prof Neil Ferguson, summed this up very bluntly this morning, saying “no country has the absolute answer”.

Some steps are obvious. There can be no "exit" until the numbers of infections fall dramatically and reach a level that’s easier to manage.

Once that’s happened, it’ll be essential to keep track of the virus to find out who’s got it, who hasn’t and who’s had it.

That can only happen with testing on a massively greater scale than anything we’re seeing now.

And if the virus is contained to only a few areas, it should be possible to carry out what’s called "contact tracing", finding anyone infected and people who’ve been close to them so that they can be quarantined.

At the same time, the global scientific effort under way will be essential in getting the virus under control and helping us to cope with it.

That means devising ways of making testing far quicker and - crucially - cheaper than it is now.

Also, there’s a race to find treatments for Covid-19, to help patients overcome the worst symptoms and recover.

And beyond that the search for vaccines is accelerating - but making sure they work and that they’re safe takes time, as does getting them into mass production.

All this is a monumental challenge but, as Prof Ferguson said, “this is the most important question worldwide”.

We've just reported that Singapore has recorded its highest daily jump in cases. Now we have more details about these 120 new infections and measures the government are taking.

The government data indicate that large numbers of migrant workers are infected with the virus. The government is quarantining two dormitories, with around 20,000 people, and preventing workers from leaving their rooms for the next 14 days.

Of the 120 cases, 116 are locally transmitted (rather than brought by visitors to Singapore). The government hopes to prevent further spread among migrants.

The country has around 300,000 foreign workers, many employed in construction.

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Singapore has reported its biggest daily jump in coronavirus cases - with 120 reported in 24 hours, according to Reuters news agency.

The country was one of the first outside of China to report cases in February, but using a strict regime of testing and tracing, it managed to initially limit the outbreak.

However, in late March, the World Health Organization warned that a second wave of cases could hit Asia, partly fuelled by people bringing the virus from outside.

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Australian police have launched a criminal investigation into how passengers on a cruise ship were allowed to disembark in Sydney, despite some exhibiting flu-like symptoms.

More than 600 people on board the Ruby Princess later tested positive for coronavirus and 10 have since died.

Those who fell sick on the cruise ship account for nearly a 10th of all cases in Australia, which has 5,548 reported cases so far.

The ship, which remains off the coast, has nearly 200 sick crew members on board.

Police in New South Wales said they would look into whether national biosecurity laws had been broken.

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British singer Marianne Faithfull has been admitted to a hospital in London with coronavirus, her manager told Rolling Stone magazine.

She tested positive on Monday and developed pneumonia, according to Francois Ravard. “She is stable and responding to treatment," he says.

The musician, who first became popular in the 1960s, has a history of health problems including hepatitis C as well as anorexia and drug addiction.

Last week musician Adam Schlesinger died from Covid-19.

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Social media companies will be told to be more aggressive in their response to conspiracy theories linking 5G networks to coronavirus, after several mobile phone masts in the UK were set on fire.

UK Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden is due to hold virtual meetings with representatives from tech firms next week, in a test of the companies' commitments to free speech.

"We must... see social media companies acting responsibly and taking much swifter action to stop nonsense spreading on their platforms which encourages such acts," a spokeswoman for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport told the BBC.

It has not yet been confirmed which tech companies are being summoned.

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Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday that "low-risk" economic activities would resume in the hard-hit country from 11 April.

Mr Rouhani did not specify what type of activities would be affected.

Schools, universities, as well as religious and social centres will remain closed and travel between cities forbidden until at least 18 April.

The death toll increased to 3,603 on Sunday, with more than 58, 226 cases, according to the ministry of health. Iran was one of the first countries to report a large outbreak of the virus, and many experts believe the true death toll is much higher than official figures.

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Scotland's chief medical officer has apologised "unreservedly" for visiting her second home during the coronavirus lockdown.

Dr Catherine Calderwood faced criticism after pictures of her family trip to Earlsferry, south-eastern Scotland, were published in Scottish media on Sunday.

Earlsferry is a drive of more than an hour from Edinburgh, where Dr Calderwood's main home is located.

She said in a statement on Sunday morning: “While there are reasons for what I did, they do not justify it and they were not legitimate reasons to be out of my home."

She added: "While I and my family followed the guidance on social distancing at all times, I understand that I did not follow the advice I am giving to others, and I am truly sorry for that."

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Here in the UK, the weather is beautiful and sunny - and the temptation to visit a park is great. This is why the government has insisted that people should stay at home.

While it seems obvious you can't go and meet your friends for a big picnic, it's perhaps less clear what you actually are allowed to do.

The government says you can leave home for any of these reasons:

• One form of exercise a day - alone, or with members of your household
• Shopping for basic necessities
• Any medical need, or providing care for a vulnerable person
• Travel to or from work, but only when you cannot work from home

And if you have to go outside, you should stay more than 2m (6ft) away from anyone other than members of your own household. This is what's known as social distancing, external.

You can read more here about what is and isn't allowed under the government's guidelines.

A man has been charged after allegedly wiping his saliva on food products in a supermarket in Dorset, in south-west England.

The 20-year-old wore a face mask and gloves when entering the Lidl store in Bridport on Friday afternoon, police said.

He was then seen licking his fingers before "purposefully" rubbing them onto an item in the store, they said.

The man was arrested and charged with an offence of contaminating or interfering with goods with intent. He is due to appear in court on Monday.

Police said the suspect was not displaying any symptoms of Covid-19.

The UK will "beat" the coronavirus if people stay at home and follow government guidance, the country's prime minister has tweeted.

Boris Johnson acknowledged it was "tough" but said that if people "work together" then the country can mitigate the spread of the virus.

His comments after the country's health secretary announced that sunbathing in public places was not allowed and that the UK might ban outdoor exercise.

Palm Sunday, the official start of Christianity's Holy Week, is usually a busy affair.

But this year, amid national lockdowns and social distancing orders, Christians around the world are having to find new ways to celebrate.

In the Philippines, people have been ordered not to go to church. Instead, they can either watch a live-streamed Mass at home, or wait outside their homes for travelling priests to come and bless their palm fronds.

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In India and Indonesia, priests are also live-streaming Mass for people in isolation at home.

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And in Thailand, signs have been placed on church pews to act as social distancing markers.

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The number of people to have died in Spain in one day has fallen for the third day in a row, to 674.

The total death toll is now 12,418, with 130,759 total confirmed cases.

While Spain reached a grim milestone this weekend - its number of cases surpassing Italy's yesterday - the figures are also raising hopes that the country is passing the peak of its outbreak.

Today's daily death toll is the lowest in 10 days, and the first time since 26 March that fewer than 700 people have died in a one-day period.

However, the fight is far from over for Spain. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez extended the nation's lockdown for another three weeks until 26 April, telling the nation that the restrictions were "saving lives".

In an op-ed published in Spanish newspaper El País and British newspaper the Guardian today, Mr Sánchez also warned the rest of Europe not to be complacent.

"It is time to break with old, national dogmas. We have entered a new era and we need new responses. Let us hold on to our positive values and reinvent the rest," he wrote.

"We must act now or never, because, right at this moment, Europe itself is at stake."

Labour, the UK's main opposition party, will back the government's possible plans to ban outdoor exercise if it was "necessary" to reduce the number of deaths from coronavirus.

Sir Keir Starmer, who was elected Labour leader on Saturday, told the BBC's Andrew Marr: "Every time people break the guidance from the government, they put other people at risk."

His comments come after Health Secretary Matt Hancock said if people continue to "flout the rules" then the government will ban exercise outside of the home.

Sir Keir said the focus has to be “what is necessary to reduce the number of deaths”.

In his first full day as Labour leader, Sir Keir said he was going to work with the government and not “score party political points”. He added: “I’m not going to demand the impossible.”

But he said the government had made "mistakes" and that Labour would "ask difficult questions".