President Trump accepts the pandemic has hit African Americans "very hard"
New York records 731 deaths, the largest single-day rise in the worst-hit state
In China, the people of Wuhan, where the virus broke out, can leave for first time since 23 January
Thousands of people are expected to take advantage of their permit to travel
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is breathing without help in intensive care, the foreign secretary says
UK has suffered 6,169 deaths, 786 in the past day, but not seeing "big upswing in cases"
France's death toll from the disease rises above 10,000.
Travel is shut down in Israel ahead of the Jewish Passover holiday
A further 758 patients diagnosed with coronavirus have died in England, NHS England has said.
It brings the total number of confirmed hospital deaths in England to 5,655 - up from 4,897 at the same time on Monday.
A further 19 hospital patients have died in Wales after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths there to 212, health officials have said.
Public Health Wales said a further 291 people had tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Wales to 3,790, but added that the true number of cases was likely to be higher.
Image source, Getty ImagesUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is deputising for the prime minister "where necessary" while Boris Johnson is in intensive care with coronavirus.
However, should Mr Raab be taken ill, Chancellor Rishi Sunak would be next in line to take over, a spokesman for the prime minster has said.
Image source, Getty ImagesChina has reported no new deaths for the first time since the crisis began, but there are still questions over the reliability of its figures and narrative.
While China has received praise and warm words from the World Health Organisation, there is considerable and persistent doubt over claims of success and official statistics, which as of 7 April showed 81,740 cases and 3,331 deaths.
Mistrust appears to stem from China's history of concealing the existence of the virus early on and moving the goalposts on case numbers.
But can the country that gave birth to this global outbreak now help to end it?
It's not just the spread of the virus we should be concerned about - there's lots of misleading coronavirus advice being shared on social media and in private messages too.
The BBC's Zeinab Badawi explains how to check whether what you're about to forward is real or fake, and how to slow the online spread of falsehoods which could put lives at risk.
Coronavirus: How can you stop the spread of misinformation?
Image source, Getty ImagesFormer Prime Minister Gordon Brown has sent good wishes to Boris Johnson and said his situation is the "worst thing that can happen to a leader".
"I feel very sorry for Boris Johnson," Mr Brown told BBC Radio 5 Live.
"The worst thing that can happen to a leader is that they are incapacitated at the time when their leadership is needed the most.
"I wish him well and hope his recovery is swift."
Gordon Brown is also organising a 165-strong group including more than 100 former presidents and prime ministers to coordinate an effort and has called for more money to be spent on the fight against the coronavirus.
He said countries are not coordinated enough and world leaders and organisations such as the World Health Organisation have to be forced to work together.
A man in the Indian state of Kerala has had a decision that prevented him travelling to buy food for his pet cats overturned by the courts.
India is currently under a strict lockdown because of coronavirus and the man's initial request to travel to buy the biscuits was rejected.
He appeared before Kerala High Court via video conferencing and said that, as a vegetarian, he did not cook non-vegetarian cat food in his house - and that one bag of the biscuits would feed his cats until the end of the lockdown.
The High Court granted the man permission to travel, suggesting failure to do so would break animal cruelty laws.
It ended its statement by adding "we are also certain that our directions will help avert a 'CATastrophe' in the petitioner’s home".
Experts have warned against over-interpreting the daily figures of people dying from the virus.
Spikes or dips may in part reflect bottlenecks in the reporting system rather than real changes in the trend.
Many hospitals, for example, will not report deaths that happened over the weekend until the following week.
Here's more on why we should be careful with the numbers we see.
Clive Coleman
BBC legal correspondent
Though the UK’s constitution does not have written rules on what happens if a prime minister is indisposed or incapacitated, the constitutional position has been considered as recently as 2017, when the Conservative MP Peter Bone sponsored the Prime Minister (Temporary Replacement) Bill.
It was described in summary as:
A Bill to make provision for the carrying out of the functions of the Prime Minister in the event that a Prime Minister, or a person temporarily carrying out the functions of the Prime Minister, is incapacitated; and for connected purposes.
It received its first reading in September 2017, but was not debated and did not complete its passage through Parliament, so it went nowhere. It means that, in terms of formal written provisions to deal with a prime minister whose ill health interferes with their ability to carry out their functions, little has changed since 1953 when the then Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffered a stroke at a dinner in Downing Street.
On that occasion the British people were not told anything of the nature of his illness, though they were told he was ill. The country had neither a prime minister nor a foreign secretary as Sir Anthony Eden was seriously ill in the USA.
Rab Butler, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, was appointed as a new chairman of the Cabinet, and government continued to function. Churchill made a remarkable recovery.
The episode is recounted in this remarkable piece of BBC archive.
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Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is holding her daily press conference and confirms that a further 74 people have died with coronavirus in Scotland, taking the total to 296.
She explains this relatively large number of deaths is due to National Records for Scotland not yet operating a seven-day service, so weekend deaths were an underestimate.
She also offers her best wishes to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, saying "we are all willing you on, Boris".
Image source, Getty ImagesLa Liga president Javier Tebas says Spain’s domestic football season may resume as early as 28 May in the best-case scenario of options being discussed by the league.
No Spanish side has played a competitive game since 11 March, when Atletico Madrid knocked holders Liverpool out of the Champions League at Anfield.
In a conference call with international journalists, Tebas also said La Liga clubs will lose around €1bn (£884m) if the 2019-20 campaign cannot be restarted.
He also stressed:
The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was stable overnight and is now in good spirits, after he was admitted to intensive care on Monday evening when his coronavirus symptoms worsened, a spokesperson said.
Johnson is receiving "standard" oxygen treatment and is breathing without any other assistance, they said.
He has not required mechanical ventilation or non-invasive respiratory support.
The prime minister has not had a pneumonia diagnosis, the spokesperson added.
Image source, Getty ImagesUK doctors are being put at risk by a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), with some calling the current provision “useless”, the British Medical Association (BMA) has warned.
In a BMA survey of almost 2,000 health workers, more than two thirds of doctors (69%) said they did not feel protected from coronavirus.
One hospital doctor said: “The quality of our eye protection and apron is useless. Some of the PPE provided feels like a tick-box exercise just for psychological reassurance.”
It comes after paramedic in the London Ambulance Service recently claimed the PPE given to workers would would be more suitable for people making sandwiches.
Image source, Getty ImagesResearchers in Antarctica are to be brought back to the UK despite transport complications caused by coronavirus.
At the end of the southern hemisphere's summer, all British Antarctic Survey staff except the core team will be extracted.
But some of the usual routes they might have travelled through have been closed because of lockdowns.
Instead, researchers will be ferried to the Falkland Islands and will then be flown to the UK with the help of the Royal Air Force (RAF).
The research agency is also chartering a cruise ship in Port Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands, to act as temporary accommodation.
Hugh Schofield
BBC News, Paris
Image source, AFPThe Paris authorities have banned daytime jogging in a bid to reduce contact between people and help slow the spread of the virus.
Going out for a run is permitted under France’s lockdown rules, but in Paris doctors fear too many people are going out during daylight hours and not keeping the correct distance apart.
The authorities also suspect some people are claiming to be taking their daily exercise, but in fact are just getting out of their homes. So it’s been decided to ban jogging between 10 in the morning and seven in the evening.
Paris has seen a surge of cases of coronavirus in the last week, with no sign yet of the wave having peaked.
Virtual wedding celebration for doctors
Zoe Davies and Tom Jackson are one of the many couples who have had their wedding cancelled as a result of the pandemic.
But their friends and family weren't going to let the virus get in the way of celebrating.
The groom's brother organised a surprise virtual wedding party for the two doctors instead.
More than 50 households tuned in to wish the couple luck by singing songs, reading poems and congratulating them.
Image source, AFPA number of French cities are to distribute face masks as part of the fight against the outbreak.
On Monday, the mayor of Nice said all residents would receive a reusable mask within 10 days. Christian Estrosi said there had been an "unacceptable relaxation" of the isolation rules over the weekend.
A similar announcement was made by the mayors of Cannes and Mandelieu-la-Napoule, and the latter said the manufacture of masks was his city's "absolute priority".
Meanwhile, police in Paris said they would ban outdoor exercise between 10:00 and 19:00 from Wednesday.
France reported 833 new coronavirus deaths on Monday, its highest daily toll since its outbreak began.
Image source, Getty ImagesMore than 100 global organisations are calling for debt payments by developing countries to be dropped this year.
These countries include the world's poorest economies which are struggling with the impacts of coronavirus.
Major charities including Oxfam and ActionAid International are asking for the debt relief, which would free up more than $25bn (£20bn) this year.
They have written to world leaders and major central banks calling for a range of debt relief measures.
Coronavirus infects the lungs. The two main, key symptoms are a fever and a dry cough, which can in some cases lead to breathing problems.
You have a fever if your temperature is above 37.8C. The cough to look out for is a new, continuous cough. This means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or having three or more coughing episodes in 24 hours.
How can you protect yourself? The best thing is regular and thorough hand washing,, external preferably with soap and water.
Coronavirus spreads when an infected person coughs small droplets - packed with the virus - into the air. These can be breathed in, or cause an infection if you touch a surface they have landed on, then your eyes, nose or mouth.
To read more on symptoms and how to stay safe, click here.
David Molloy
BBC News, London
WhatsApp has put heavy restrictions on forwarded messages to try to stop the spread of coronavirus misinformation.
From today, messages that WhatsApp thinks are “frequently forwarded” can only be forwarded to one chat at a time.
"Frequent forwards” are messages that have been forwarded five times already. They’re marked with double arrows in WhatsApp, to try to show that they are not original.
WhatsApp calls them “less personal” messages, and acknowledges they can contribute to the spread of misinformation.
It’s not the first time that WhatsApp has clamped down on forwarded messages. In 2018, it put a limit on forwarding to five chat groups at a time in India, after a number of killings by mobs based on false information forwarded by WhatsApp.
That change was rolled out worldwide six months later, in January 2019.