Former UK Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith has said he has "a lot of confidence" in Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who will deputise for the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.

"Dominic Raab will lead through this using the same decision-making process until Boris is able to step back up again," Duncan-Smith said.

When asked if the prime minister's condition was worsened by his desire to continue working, Minister for the Cabinet Office Michael Gove said Johnson had followed the best medical advice.

"The prime minister is someone who loves this country who always wants to be doing his best, pushing things forward and making a difference for the better," Gove said.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with him. We all hope he can be restored to health as quickly as possible."

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Resty Woro Yuniar
BBC News, Jakarta

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Indonesia has urged Muslims to practice tarawih, or additional prayers performed at night during fasting month, at home and forgo mass Eid prayers at the end of Ramadan, a move that would dramatically affect the life of millions in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation.

Ramadan is typically such a festive month in Indonesia, where about 85% of the more than 260 million-strong population are Muslims. At dawn, some people take to the roads to give early meals, or sahoor, to the poor, and at dusk people break the fast together at restaurants or mosques. Street vendors line up on the roads, selling light meals such as dates or banana in coconut milk. At night, people go to the mosques for tarawih, Koran reading, or donating zakat or alms.

On Eid day, which falls at the end of May, football fields, parking lots, and neighborhood alleys are used to host mass prayers, where many don their new clothes and prayer dresses. Eid shopping is also important for the economy - last year, domestic consumption during Ramadan boosted Indonesia’s GDP growth in the second quarter to 5.17%.

Ramadan this time will be vastly different. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the ministry of religious affairs has issued a circular letter urging Muslims to practice prayers, fast breaking, and Koran reading in their homes. It also asks Muslims to carry out online the country’s own halal bi-halal tradition, or social gathering after Eid, to ask forgiveness from friends and families.

Here in the UK, self-isolation and social distancing have become essential measures to stem the spread of the virus.

Here are our guides on how to do both of them properly, and UK guidelines for both practices.

M Ilyas Khan
BBC News, Islamabad

Police in Quetta have arrested scores of practicing doctors and paramedics after a doctors’ protest over non-availability of safety gear turned violent.

According to eyewitness accounts, police used batons to prevent the doctors' march towards a venue where the provincial cabinet was holding a meeting. The doctors have been critical of the provincial health ministry for failing to ensure safety of medical workers despite promises.

The government says it has provided masks and kits to staff who handle coronavirus patients, but medical workers say they are all at risk, as they have to deal with patients who may be infected but not yet tested.

They point out that more than a dozen doctors who have so far tested positive for coronavirus in the Balochistan region, of which Quetta is the capital, were not working with coronavirus patients.

Doctors and nurses in several parts of the country, including the capital Islamabad, have gone on strike several times over the last couple of weeks to register their concerns over lack of safety kits for hospital staff.

These concerns were triggered by the infection and death in late March of a doctor in Gigit-Baltistan region who had been screening returning pilgrims from Iran.

Hours after the arrests in Quetta, another doctor who recently tested positive for coronavirus died in a Karachi hospital. He is the third doctor to have died of the infection in Pakistan so far.

As the number of people infected with coronavirus surpasses one million, here's our visual guide to the outbreak so far.

Pakistan has quarantined 20,000 people after they attended a gathering organised by an Islamic missionary movement, Tablighi Jamaat. Officials are concerned that they could be spreading the virus in the country and overseas.

The group has dominated news coverage in India too, where nearly 30% of its more than 4,000 confirmed cases have been linked to an event organised by its members in the capital, Delhi, last month.

Here’s more news from the rest of South Asia:

• In a bid to curb the spread of the virus, Bangladesh has stopped prayers at mosques, external across the country after four more people died on Monday
• With more than 150 cases in Sri Lanka, it looks as though officials are likely to extend the rigid lockdown, external currently in place across the country
• Similarly, the lockdown in Nepal will be extended to 15 April, external after three new cases were confirmed over the weekend, taking the tally to nine

It's easy enough to wash your hands and stay away from people - when you have running water and have 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 try 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 recorded scenes of migrants doing their best to keep people safe.

US President Donald Trump says he asked two "genius" US companies to help in the treatment of the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was moved to intensive care after his virus symptoms worsened.

In a press briefing on Monday, Trump said he had asked "two of the leading companies, brilliant companies... to contact London immediately".

He did not give the names of the companies or say what treatment methods were being considered. Johnson is being treated in the ICU at St Thomas' Hospital in London.

"We've contacted all of Boris's doctors and we'll see what is going to take placem," Trump said.

Another cruise ship has been hit by the virus, this time coming back from a trip to Antarctica: Australia's Greg Mortimer vessel is off the coast of Uruguay with more than 80 people who tested positive - almost half of the roughly 200 overall passengers and crew.

The small, state-of-the-art liner had left for a trip to Antarctica on 15 March. But during the trip passengers and crew began showing symptoms. Six seriously ill have been taken on land in Uruguay for treatment while the rest remain on board.

The country is in talks with Australia to allow those who are healthy to fly home. Passengers are mostly from Australia, the UK and New Zealand.

Cruise operator Aurora said it had begun the "extraordinarily complicated" task of repatriating passengers, as most airlines had stopped flying "and access to charter planes is difficult".

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Some of the symptoms of the virus are quite similar to the common cold or flu - but there are differences. The BBC's Laura Foster explains what to look out for and what to do if you're in the UK and think you might have the virus.

India will release "appropriate quantities" of hydroxychloroquine and paracetamol, according to reports citing the Ministry of External Affairs., external.

The ministry said in addition to supplying neighbouring countries, India would also give it to other nations "badly affected by the pandemic".

On Monday, Donald Trump said the US could "retaliate" if India didn't release stocks of the drug, which he has called a "game-changer" in the fight against Covid-19.

Hydroxychloroquine is very similar to Chloroquine, one of the oldest and best-known anti-malarial drugs.

But it remains unclear whether the drug can actually work against coronavirus. Many virologists and infectious disease experts have cautioned that the excitement over hydroxychloroquine is premature and the drug has not been properly tested.

The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson is in intensive care. What does that mean for the government and the country as a whole?

BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg explains.

Karishma Vaswani
BBC News, Singapore

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They are Singapore’s neglected workforce. Cramped living quarters, bunk beds and shared toilets. Sometimes 12 men sleep in one room, often in squalid living conditions.

This is the life for many of the more than 200,000 migrant workers - mostly from South Asia - who live and work in Singapore, building the country’s gleaming skyscrapers and swanky malls. They’re also employed in some vital services, like fixing problems on the country’s public transport system or in the electricity grid.

The coronavirus has brought that inequality to the surface. Dozens of workers have contracted the virus, and three separate dormitories have effectively been quarantined into red zones, with thousands of people inside. None of them can go out for 14 days.

But the worry is that now these dorms are sealed off to the world, the virus will spread even further inside - becoming, in essence a far less comfortable and glamorous version of the Diamond Princess in Japan, which was dubbed a floating petri dish. The virus spread rampantly amongst people quarantined in that cruise ship as well as others.

The measures to gazette these dorms comes against the backdrop of rising local infections - a second wave that the government is grappling with.

Today marks the beginning of a month-long shutdown which will see workplaces and schools closed, which officials hope will slow the spread. But the number of infected migrant workers grows every day.

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If you didn't know much about him before this, here are some key points on the man deputising for Boris Johnson:

• 46-year-old former lawyer
• Son of a Czech-born Jewish refugee who fled the Nazis in 1938
• Degrees from Oxford and Cambridge
• Conservative MP since 2010
• Current foreign secretary and first secretary of state
• Supporter of campaign to leave the European Union
• Black belt in karate

Read our full profile here.

Earlier today, New Zealand's health minister David Clark said he had been an "idiot", after he broke lockdown rules by driving to the beach with his family.

"At a time when we are asking New Zealanders to make historic sacrifices I've let the team down. I've been an idiot," he said.

His resignation was rejected, but he has been been demoted in cabinet rankings and also lost a secondary position of associate finance minister.

Read more on Mr Clark here.

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Experts in the UK have warned against over-interpreting the daily figures of people dying with the Covid-19 virus.

On Monday, 439 coronavirus deaths were recorded in the UK - down from 621 on Sunday and 708 on Saturday.

But spikes or dips may in part reflect bottlenecks in the reporting system, rather than real changes in the trend, they say.

Many hospitals will not report deaths that happened over the weekend until the middle of the following week.

Read more here

Laura Kuenssberg
BBC political editor

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The UK government has taken a highly unusual move of asking Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to step up to deputise for the prime minister when needed.

Talking on Monday night, Mr Raab said that the government's business would go on, ministers focused on delivering the plans to tackle coronavirus that Mr Johnson had instructed them to do.

But the foreign secretary seemed understandably, but obviously, shocked.

Politicians have repeatedly said that coronavirus does not discriminate, the infection does not pick and choose.

With Boris Johnson now in intensive care, it is abundantly clear that power is no protection from harm.

Read more from Laura here

Howard Johnson
Philippines Correspondent, BBC News

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Nearly 300 passengers have left the Philippines on a London-bound repatriation flight from Manila’s main airport.

Earlier today four "sweeper flights", from islands identified by the embassy as having high concentrations of stranded UK nationals, arrived at Ninoy Aquino International Airport for the connecting flight to the UK.

Joe Caswell, a 24-year-old graduate from Wirral, who had been stranded in Siargao, said he nearly didn’t make the flight home today because soldiers at a quarantine checkpoint demanded a paper copy of his ticket.

"It was an extremely strange and stressful situation," he said. "But after half an hour of talking we were able to get through. I’m relieved to be going back to see family and friends."

The British embassy says it will now look at ways of helping other stranded Britons in less accessible parts of the country’s archipelago of more than 7,000 islands.

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is currently being treated in the intensive care unit (ICU) at St Thomas' hospital in London. We'll bring you the latest news on his condition as we get it.

So what is intensive care?

ICUs are specialist wards set up to provide treatment and close monitoring for patients who are too seriously ill to be cared for in other parts of the hospital.

They have fewer patients and more staffing to provide one-on-one care when it's needed and they are also kitted out with sophisticated monitoring equipment.

Read our full explainer on what ICUs are here.

Soutik Biswas
India Correspondent

On 31 March, Asia's biggest onion market fell silent.

The market in the western state of Maharashtra usually thrums with farmers and traders. But the mostly migrant men and women who unload, load and grade onions - an essential part of the diet of millions of Indians - are missing.

The market in Lasangaon accounts for a third of India's onion produce - and it managed to stumble along for nearly a week after India imposed a harsh 21-day lockdown last month.

Farmers were still able to go to their fields and pluck onions after the government made it clear that agriculture was an essential service. And a few workers had stayed back to keep the Lasangaon market running.

But then came a news report that one person had tested positive for Covid-19 in the neighbourhood, and panic set in.

"First the trucks stopped coming. Then some labourers fled. Then came the news about the virus patient. The rest of the workers fled," Manoj Jain, an onion trader told me.

Read the full story here