It's thought to be the first film about the disease.

Corona: Fear is a Virus tells the story of seven people trapped in a lift and the chaos that ensues when one of them starts to cough.

Its Canadian director, Mostafa Keshvari, talked to the BBC's Tom Brook.

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It is up to Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick to explain why he drove 40 miles to visit his elderly parents, says shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds.

Mr Jenrick said he was delivering essentials, including medicines, because his parents are self-isolating. He said he “respected social distancing rules”.

"There are the four reasons for leaving your house. One of them is to deliver essential supplies to vulnerable people,” Mr Thomas-Symonds told BBC Breakfast

"Clearly if that is what Robert Jenrick has done, then it fits within the four exceptions. It is for him to answer precisely what the purpose of the journey he undertook was."

Dr Paul Cosford, medical director for Public Health England, also said it “sounds what he did was within one of those four guidelines".

He added: “The principle is clear, and that is stay at home unless you absolutely have to go out.”

It's been five days since Scotland's chief medical officer Catherine Calderwood resigned after making two trips to her second home.

Last week, the Chinese city of Shenzhen became the first to ban the sale and consumption of dog and cat meat.

And now China may reclassify dogs as pets rather than livestock, after the virus outbreak - which began in a market selling live animals - prompted the country to review its laws around the wildlife trade.

"With the progress of human civilisation... dogs have changed from traditional domestic animals to companion animals," said the country's agriculture authority in a proposed policy, according to a state media report. , external

"Dogs are generally not regarded as livestock... and China should also not manage them as [that]."

The draft policy is now open to the public for consultation.

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Frankly, we don't know.

The current coronavirus restrictions, which were brought in on 23 March, are due to be officially reviewed next week.

Prof Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London, who worked on the modelling, external the government advice is based on, believes it will be "several more weeks" until it is clear whether coronavirus restrictions in the UK can be lifted.

He tells the BBC's Today programme it will take that long to "definitively conclude anything about the rate of decline".

Asked about a potential exit strategy, he says: "We clearly don’t want these measures to continue any longer than is absolutely necessary.

"But we do want to find a set of policies which maintain the suppression of transmission of this virus.

"Without doubt, measures will be targeted, probably, by age, by geography and we will need to introduce, in my view… much larger levels of testing."

He adds that working out how to end the lockdown is the "number one topic and priority, every waking minute" for the scientific community and the government.

Singapore has suspended the use of video-conferencing app Zoom for teachers after hackers reportedly hijacked an online lesson.

In one incident, they apparently showed students lewd pictures.

A pupil's mother said the hackers also asked the girls in the class to flash them, reported local outlet Today., external

The country's Ministry of Education said it would look into the "very serious incidents".

All schools in Singapore have now been shut, with students doing home-based learning.

This is not the first time Zoom has been criticised for its safety and privacy issues. Read more about how safe it actually is, here.

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The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus pandemic originated, has finally lifted its 11-week quarantine and infections and deaths have tailed off.

As residents emerge from their long spell indoors, they share the lessons they've learned from the outbreak.

"The memories are precious yet horrifying," muses one.

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains in hospital after being moved out of intensive care but is in “extremely good spirits”, Downing Street says.

Mr Johnson has been receiving treatment for coronavirus at St Thomas' Hospital in London since Sunday – 10 days after he tested positive – and was taken into intensive care on Monday.

On Thursday evening a spokesman said he had "been moved from intensive care back to the ward, where he will receive close monitoring during the early phase of his recovery".

Mr Johnson’s father, Stanley, said his family were relieved, grateful and thankful for the work of the NHS, but that the prime minister must now “rest up”.

“It has actually, I think, served an amazing purpose in the sense it’s got the whole country to realise this is a serious event,” he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

“I don’t think you can say that this is out of the woods now, he has to take time. I cannot believe you can walk away from this and go straight back to Downing Street and pick up the reins without a period of readjustment."

April is an important month for religions around the world.

The Jewish festival of Passover began on Wednesday, Christians celebrate Easter this weekend, Sikhs will be marking Vaisakhi on Monday, and Muslims will be fasting as the holy month of Ramadan begins later in April.

But how do you celebrate if you're unable to meet loved ones or attend religious ceremonies in person? Here are some ideas...

New York state has now recorded more infections than any country - including the hardest-hit European countries, Italy and Spain.

Almost 160,000 people in New York have tested positive with the virus, compared to 153,000 in Spain and 143,000 in Italy.

The human toll of the outbreak has become clear, with harrowing pictures emerging of coffins being buried in mass graves in New York City.

While the number of new hospital admissions has fallen for a second day running, raising hope, a record 799 people died in New York state on Wednesday alone. That brings the total number of deaths to over 7,000.

Read our full story here.

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Good morning. Welcome to our live page coverage at the start of an Easter bank holiday weekend that feels very different to normal.

Here's what you need to know today:

• Brits are being told to stay home to have a "safe Easter", as temperatures rise to 26C (79F) in some places
• Downing Street said on Thursday evening that PM Boris Johnson was now out of intensive care but remains in hospital - where he is in "extremely good spirits"
• Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has defended his travel moves amid reports he flouted lockdown rules
• The number of people to have died in hospital in the UK after testing positive has risen to 7,978, officials announced on Thursday - up 881 on the previous day
• For the third week running, people took to their doorsteps and balconies to take part in a round of national applause for NHS workers
• Online sales of Easter eggs are surging as UK consumers turn to the internet to buy chocolate during the lockdown

The Foreign Office has chartered a further 12 flights to bring more than 3,000 UK nationals back from India.

Seven flights have already been arranged, meaning the total number of Britons repatriated from India will rise to around 5,000.

“This is a huge and complex operation which also involves working with the Indian Government to enable people to move within India to get on these flights," said the Foreign Office’s Minister of State for South Asia and the Commonwealth, Lord Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon.

Yemen has reported its first coronavirus case - in the eastern province of Hadramout.

Aid groups have been warning the spread of the disease could have a catastrophic impact in the war-torn country.

Yesterday, a unilateral two-week ceasefire called by the Saudi-led coalition fighting against Houthi rebels in Yemen came into effect.

The five-year conflict has devastated Yemen, reportedly killed more than 100,000 people, and triggered what the UN considers the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

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EU finance ministers have agreed a €500bn (£440bn) rescue package for member countries hit by the pandemic. The deal was reached after marathon discussions in Brussels in Thursday.

The package includes support for governments, companies and for workers.

Yet the ministers fell short of accepting a demand, by France, Spain and Italy, to share out the cost of the crisis by issuing so-called corona bonds.

Earlier, German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected that idea of mutual debt, stating that she didn’t believe there should be a “common liability for each other’s debt, given the current state of the political union in the EU”.

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India's 28 million Christians are just waking up to Good Friday under lockdown.

Like in many other countries around the world, there will be no church services today. Instead, people will either have small prayer ceremonies at home or follow church services online.

"This year, for the first time in the history of Christianity, the celebration of Good Friday and Easter will be held without parishioners physically attending the church services," Father Maverick Fernandes, director Caritas Goa, a social wing of the Goa Church, told the PTI news agency.

A few big churches in Indian cities like Mumbai and Delhi, and across states like Goa and Kerala have already announced that they would live stream their services on web platforms, like YouTube and Facebook.

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BBC News, Seoul

The South Korean city of Daegu, which was the epicentre of the country’s Covid-19 crisis, has reported no new cases of the virus for the first time since the outbreak began two months ago.

Elsewhere, 27 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed, the fewest number of infections to be reported in 50 day.

No new reported cases of coronavirus in the city of Daegu is good news, but health officials have issued a stark warning ahead of the Easter weekend.

They are concerned about large church services and the prime minister has urged religious groups to refrain from mass gatherings.

Meanwhile South Koreans are heading to the polls which have opened for two days of early voting ahead of the parliamentary elections next week. All voters are advised to wear masks, they will have their temperature checked and be kept at least one meter apart from others while waiting to cast their ballot. Everyone entering the voting booth will have to disinfect their hands and wear plastic gloves.

The National Election Commission has also set up polling stations at eight facilities where Covid-19 patients with mild symptoms are being treated.

Around the world, there are now more than 95,700 deaths that have been linked to Covid-19 and if the past days' trend continues, this weekend will see that number pass the 100,000 mark.

The highest toll is in Italy where 18,279 people have died with Covid-19, followed by the US (16,684), Spain (15,447), France (12,228) and the UK (7,993).

Again, those numbers have to be read with caution as many countries don't test people who died at home.

Two Russian cosmonauts and one US astronaut have arrived at the International Space Station. They had to go through extra strict quarantine to make sure they don't take the virus to space.

Before takeoff they said that in light of the pandemic, they were off to probably "the safest place on earth".

Detainees in Australia's immigration centres are asking the authorities to release them into the community, after a case of Covid-19 was confirmed in a facility.

The inmates say it is impossible to self isolate and some say they are on a hunger strike in protest. The government insists there are plans for dealing with cases within its detention network.

A spokesperson said inmates showing symptoms would be quarantined and tested.

There are about 1,500 being held on the Australian mainland. About 40% of them are asylum seekers.

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The number of confirmed infections in Germany has risen by 5,323 over the past 24 hours to 113,525.

The country had earlier seen something of a decline, but this marked the fourth straight day of the numbers going up.

The reported death toll rose by 266 to 2,373. These numbers are from the country's Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases, which tends to give lower figures than the Johns Hopkins University, which is also charting cases worldwide.

The US university has Germany with 118,235 cases and 2,607 deaths.