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Dr Anthony Fauci, the US infectious disease chief, says it is possible parts of the country could begin returning to normal "at least in some ways, maybe next month".

"You don't want to do something precipitously," Dr Fauci warned on CNN, emphasising it would not be a nationwide "light switch" moment, which could cause a rebound.

"It's going to be depending on where you are in the country, the nature of the outbreak you already experienced and the threat of an outbreak you may not have experienced."

Dr Fauci was also hopeful that the US presidential election, slated for 3 November, would still take place - if the nation takes a measured approach at returning to normalcy.

Easter Sunday is traditionally a time for feasting. But, with most of Europe in lockdown, many are unable to celebrate in their usual manner.

Four families, in England, France, Spain and Italy, have been explaining how they have adapted their Easter celebrations.

Roast lamb dinners, tourte pascale, chicken and calamari paella, abbacchio... each family will find comfort in the food associated with this time of year, even if it has left some "heartbroken" they can't spend the day with loved ones.

Read more about their Easter feasts here.

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England reports the number of people to have died with coronavirus in the country has risen to 9,594, up 657 from 8,937 the previous day.

In Scotland, 24 people who tested positive for the virus have died in the past 24 hours, taking the number of confirmed deaths to 566.

Public Health Wales says a further 18 patients have died, bringing the country’s total to 369.

In Northern Ireland the total death toll has risen to 118, with 11 further deaths reported on Sunday.

The total UK figure, which will be released by the government shortly, may differ from the tally of the individual nations.

Sarah Rainsford
BBC Moscow Correspondent

Officials in Moscow say 30 people infected with coronavirus have been caught breaking strict home-quarantine rules and 1358 other residents will be fined for venturing onto the street on Saturday with no "proper" purpose.

Facial recognition cameras send instant alerts to police when anyone obliged to stay at home leaves their building. That includes those diagnosed with Covid-19 and people returning from abroad.

Police foot patrols have also increased noticeably over the weekend - I’ve seen several pedestrians and a cyclist being stopped and questioned. Police cars are driving through near-empty streets warning people over a loudspeaker to stay at home.

Residents here are allowed to visit the nearest shop or chemist, or walk their dog, but parks and playgrounds are closed and outside exercise is banned.

From Monday, a system of electronic passes comes into effect, obliging anyone moving around by car or public transport to register online for approval before each trip.

Officials have warned that Moscow hospitals are already stretched ‘to the limit’ by the coronavirus epidemic.

Outside Russia’s capital, where there are fewer registered cases, large congregations gathered today in Orthodox churches to celebrate Palm Sunday. Moscow will now close all churches until after Orthodox Easter Sunday (19 April), leaving parishioners to follow masses online.

From mild symptoms to intensive care, here is an overview of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s illness.

• 27 March: Johnson announces he has tested positive for coronavirus, has mild symptoms and is self-isolating at his Downing Street flat
• 2 April: Johnson appears on the steps of Downing Street to join the second “Clap for our Carers” event. Some commentators suggest he appears unwell
• 3 April: Johnson cannot leave self-isolation after the recommended seven days because he still has a persistent temperature
• 4 April: Johnson’s pregnant partner Carrie Symonds says she has experienced symptoms of coronavirus but has not been tested
• 5 April: Johnson is admitted to hospital as a “precautionary step” because his symptoms remain persistent
• 6 April: Johnson is moved to intensive care after his condition worsens and Dominic Raab, as First Secretary of State, is asked to deputise for him where necessary
• 8 April:Johnson is "improving" after two nights in intensive care, Chancellor Rishi Sunak says
• 9 April: Johnson is moved out of intensive care but remains in hospital, Downing Street says
• 11 April: Johnson says he owes his life to the NHS staff at St Thomas’ Hospital for treating him for coronavirus
• 12 April: Johnson is discharged from hospital but will not return to work immediately, Downing Street says

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Helena Wilkinson
BBC News correspondent

Boris Johnson has gone back to Chequers in Buckinghamshire, his official country residence. He hasn't returned to Downing Street and will be out of action for some time, although it is not clear how long that will be.

Obviously he will be continuing to take advice from his doctor in terms of his recovery. We heard a couple of days ago he was able to make short walks in hospital, which gives you an indication of how seriously unwell he was.

Each patient differs in terms of how long their recovery takes, but crucially the prime minister didn't need to go on a ventilator. That, of course, would have been much more serious and would have taken longer to recover from.

He is going to be based at Chequers and, no doubt, monitoring what is going on and having conversations with colleagues. But he won't be working as such.

We’ve got some more details about UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s discharge from hospital on Sunday

Johnson will continue his recovery at Chequers, the prime minister’s country residence in Buckinghamshire, Downing Street says.

“On the advice of his medical team, the PM will not be immediately returning to work,” a spokesman said.

The spokesman said Johnson wished to thank the staff at St Thomas’ Hospital for the “brilliant care he has received”, adding that his thoughts were with others affected by Covid-19.

On Saturday, Johnson, 55, said he owed his life to the NHS staff treating him for coronavirus.

Johnson tested positive for the virus on 27 March.

By last Tuesday, the death toll from coronavirus in New York had passed that of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

The outbreak has placed New York at the centre of the global pandemic and put an unprecedented strain on the state's emergency workers and frontline healthcare staff.

Over the course of Tuesday, six of those people - two doctors, an undertaker, two senior care home staff and a food delivery worker - kept diaries of their days and shared them with the BBC.

Read their stories here

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been discharged from hospital after being in intensive care with Covid-19, Downing Street has said.

Johnson had been receiving treatment for coronavirus at St Thomas' Hospital in London since last Sunday.

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Comedian and BBC broadcaster Tim Brooke-Taylor has died at the age of 79 after contracting coronavirus, his agent has announced.

Best known for The Goodies and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, Brooke-Taylor died on Sunday.

His agent said he was "an exceptional client" who had "many fans whom he always treated cheerfully even after long and exhausting rehearsals and recordings".

"It is with great sadness that we announce Tim's death early today from Covid-19," his agent said in a statement.

"Joining Footlights in 1960 took him to providing a huge variety of splendid entertainment - television, radio, theatre, film, books, DVDs, CDs, quizzes, etc - all of which he undertook with energy and a great sense of fun.

"We will remember him for so much but must just mention The Goodies and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue."

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A coronavirus vaccine could be available for some people in autumn this year, says Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar.

“The vaccine will be available, I think, during the autumn of this year but that will not be at the scale that’s required to vaccinate maybe many billions of people around the world,” he said.

“That vaccine will be going into volunteer studies in the summer – so May, June, July – [and] the results will be available in September, and then there’ll be a push to give it to more people and see if it’s safe and also effective.”

Sir Jeremy, a member of the UK government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, hopes it will then be more widely available next year.

“I would hope we would get it done in 12 months but that is in itself an unprecedented ambition,” he added.

Danny Vincent
BBC News, Hong Kong

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Early last week unfounded rumours began to emerge that African communities had become a new hotbed for the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Guangzhou.

Soon after, health officials began door-to-door testing targeting African immigrants.

Landlords and hotels have evicted hundreds of Africans. Many, including community leaders, were forced into quarantine despite testing negative for the virus.

Hundreds now remain homeless as fears grow that cities like Guangzhou could face a second wave of the outbreak.

Various African ambassadors in China have written to the country’s foreign minister to voice complaints about “stigmatisation and discrimination”.

On Saturday, the Chinese embassy in Zimbabwe dismissed the accusations in a tweet: “China treats all individuals in the country, Chinese and foreign alike, as equals.”

Guangzhou was the largest African community in Asia in the late 2000s, but over the last five years the numbers of Africans living in the city have dwindled. Many say they face frequent discrimination, visa restrictions and challenges in doing business.

I spoke to one evicted student from Nigeria who told me he had been forced into hiding.

“I am running [from the police] because of the way they are testing people and claiming that the person has a sickness, bringing all sorts of injections," he said.

"They are going to houses and bringing people out, keeping them in hotels. I am just hiding and living by the grace of God."

Michelle Roberts
Health editor, BBC News Website

We are hearing more about shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) from NHS staff. Masks, gloves and other clothing to stop the spread of coronavirus saves lives.

The Royal College of Surgeons of England has surveyed nearly 2,000 of its members who work in NHS hospitals. A third say they do not believe they have an adequate supply of PPE in their own hospital trust for them to safely do their job.

The college says doctors should not risk their own health if they do not have the right gear. This advice is echoed by the Royal College of Nursing, which says its members can refuse to treat patients as a "last resort" if adequate PPE cannot be provided.

Business Secretary Alok Sharma has said no medical professional should be placed in a position where its members have to make that choice. In an interview on Sunday he said: "We are making sure that there are millions of PPE kits going out to the front line, and of course we need to be doing even more."

There is a hotline that NHS and social care workers can call, external to request PPE.

There's a lot of sad news coming in from hospitals at the moment, but when patients recover from coronavirus, some are celebrating the news on social media.

One NHS trust in Worcestershire, in the West Midlands of England, posted the story of 101-year-old Keith, who survived the virus. Staff on the ward in Alexandra Hospital looked after him for two weeks before he was discharged.

In Plymouth, staff at Derriford hospital clapped when a patient called Sue was discharged after spending four weeks on a ward. She is one of more than 80 patients the ward staff have cared for.

And on Saturda,y Doncaster hospitals celebrated discharging two patients and said they had had no new admissions in 24 hours.

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Bitten, coughed on and threats of being spat at? These are just some of the hazards police have faced while enforcing the lockdown in the UK recently.

A man was charged with assault after two officers were punched and one of them seriously bitten in Rochdale on Thursday.

Meanwhile, in Eastbourne, three women were charged with assault after threatening to spit on and expose to coronavirus police officers who were responding to reports of a house party. One officer also suffered a head injury and required hospital treatment.

And a man from Nottingham who allegedly coughed on a police officer is due in court on Monday after he was arrested following a domestic incident.

He is charged with three offences - actual bodily harm and common assault in relation to the domestic incident, and assault on an emergency worker.

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BBC News

There is "emerging evidence" to suggest coronavirus is having a disproportionate impact on people who are from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Only 14% of people in England and Wales are from ethnic minority backgrounds, according to the 2011 census.

However, the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre found that 34% of more than 3,000 critically ill coronavirus patients identified as black, Asian or minority ethnic.

Dr John Chinegwundoh, 50, works as a consultant respiratory physician in London and recently lost his 93-year-old father to coronavirus.

He described his father Lawrence as a "special, loving and gentle man who will be deeply missed by the Nigerian community".

Dr Chinegwundoh said it was important the government tracked data about coronavirus cases by ethnicity so that "lessons could be learnt for the future to support communities".

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Cartoonist Morten Morland has offered his view on coronavirus at Easter. Published in the Sunday Times newspaper, external, the cartoon shows police horrified to discover that Jesus has left his tomb - breaking social-distancing restrictions.

The cartoon refers to the resurrection of Jesus three days after he was crucified and buried - in the Bible, Mary Magdalene visits his tomb, only to find it empty and the stone rolled away.

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Easter is a time of joy for Christians as they celebrate Jesus's resurrection. But the site in Jerusalem where Jesus is believed to have been crucified and rose again is closed on Easter Sunday, for the first time in more than a century.

A small number of priests gathered at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Sunday, while a few worshippers gathered in the inner courtyard. A man in an immaculate white gown prayed in front of the closed door.

"Easter is a time for life," said Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa. "Despite the signs of death everywhere, life will prevail as long as someone is giving life out of love for others."

At the Western Wall, a small group of Jewish worshippers prayed to mark Passover.

The Old City in Jerusalem is largely empty as Israel follows strict social distancing measures.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged people to "not let fear dominate" and to look after one another during the coronavirus crisis.

Justin Welby said churches had to set an example on how to behave during "challenging times" - adding that it was "not complicated".

"We've gone through so much, and we're seeing such common spirit and an attitude to the common good coming through by the vast majority of people - we mustn't lose that," he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.

The head of the Church of England earlier led the first national digital Easter Sunday service from his kitchen at Lambeth Palace.

Pope Francis has celebrated Easter Sunday with a Mass held behind closed doors at St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.

This year's Holy Week events were modified to take place without the public. The Pope will also replace his traditional address to crowds at St Peter's Square with an online message.

Last year, more than 70,000 people joined the celebrations. Italy, one of the countries worst hit by coronavirus, remains in lockdown with the entrance to the Vatican sealed off by police.

On Saturday, the Pope urged people not to "yield to fear" over coronavirus, calling on them to be "messengers of life in a time of death".

You can watch the celebrations live on the Vatican's website., external

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