Marianna Spring
Specialist disinformation and social media reporter

Coronavirus misinformation is flooding the internet and experts are calling on the public to practise "information hygiene". What can you do to stop the spread of bad information?

Stop and think, check your source and ask if a message makes you emotional.

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Have you seen concerning or misleading information about coronavirus online? Is there a story we should be investigating? Email me - marianna.spring@bbc.co.uk

At Vila Formosa, Latin America's biggest cemetery, workers say they are turning over more graves than usual.

Workers at the cemetery in the Brazilian city of São Paulo say on an average day they bury about 40 people, but the weekend before last, that figure was about 60.

"The municipality bought 5,000 body bags and they're hiring more people, too," says gravedigger Manuel Pereira. But they're bracing themselves for the weeks ahead.

Brazil's health ministry says Covid-19 is not expected to peak in the country until May or June.

Read more about the situation in Brazil here.

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Golf's PGA Tour in the US has announced plans to restart in June, with the first four events taking place without fans.

The Tour, the programme of annual golf events that runs throughout the season, has been suspended since 12 March.

The latest plans say it will restart behind closed doors at the Charles Schwab Challenge in Texas on 8 June.

The first three majors of the year – the Masters, US PGA and US Open - have been postponed, and the Open Championship, scheduled to take place in Kent in July, is cancelled.

The US has nearly 640,000 confirmed Covid-19 cases, the most of any country, and over 30,900 deaths.

On Wednesday, however, President Donald Trump said the country is past the peak and predicted some states will reopen this month.

Rachel Schraer
BBC Reality Check

The government has been struggling to prove it’s moving fast enough on testing.

Halfway through April, coronavirus tests have reached just 16,000 per day – with the government pledge standing at 100,000 a day by the end of the month.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said yesterday that the figures were lagging because of “not enough demand, rather than not enough capacity”.

He told the BBC this morning that it was now possible to do 25,000 tests a day, while a government spokesperson went further and said there was capacity to do 35,000.

With way over a million NHS and care staff on the frontline, it’s not totally clear why the full capacity isn't being used.

But it’s not just about people to do the swabs and labs to test them - NHS staff have to be able to go and get the test in the first place.

Drive-through centres have been set up to swab staff, but they are often a long journey from where they are working and these centres appear to be underused.

And there are some concerns that individual hospitals might be slow to refer their staff for testing.

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In the next hour or so, we'll be hearing from US President Donald Trump as he presents his plans to reopen the US.

Last month, he announced federal social distancing guidelines to combat the outbreak.

He said people should start homeschooling if possible, avoid gatherings of groups of more than 10 people, avoid travel and avoid restaurants and bars.

More than 90% of the country is under some form of lockdown.

Most states have issued stay-at-home orders or similar.

In New York, Governor Cuomo ordered all non-essential business workers to stay at home. For those who have to go outside, he encouraged social distancing.

California has also issued a stay-at-home order. All non-essential businesses such as gyms and bars have closed.

Captain Tom Moore, the 99-year-old war veteran who has captured hearts in the UK, says he will continue completing laps of his garden despite passing his 100-lap target.

Capt Tom originally aimed to raise just £1,000 for NHS Charities Together by completing the laps but has now raised almost £16m.

He completed his final lap on Thursday but tweeted to say he will "keep on going".

Many of us are having to get used to working from home during the coronavirus pandemic.

LA Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly is no different. He's been honing his skills at home in his garden.

It's not going too well, however. Have a look at his costly mistake in the video below...

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Celebrities including Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio are offering prizes as part of a Covid-19 fundraiser.

People who donate to the All In Challenge will be entered into a prize draw.

The campaign aims to help feed vulnerable people in the US. So far $5.6m (£4.4m) has been raised.

Matthew McConaughey has invited a donor to join him in his private box to watch an American Football game in Texas. While Kevin Hart is offering a speaking role in his next film.

Read more about the prizes on offer here.

A New York mother who gave birth nearly two weeks ago while in a coma suffering from coronavirus has finally had the chance to meet her son, Walter.Yanira Soriano, 36, had difficulty breathing while having contractions when 34 weeks pregnant and tested positive for Covid-19.

Doctors put Soriano in a medically induced coma so they could place her on a ventilator. Her son son Walter was delivered through an emergency caesarean section while she was unconscious.

Dr. Benjamin Schwartz, who delivered Walter, told American television station ABC7 News:, external "In most instances you're awake when you deliver the baby and you can bond with the baby right away. But because the mother was so ill, she had to be put on a ventilator and put to sleep right before the baby was born."

Boris Johnson has taken part in this evening's clap for carers whilst he recovers from coronavirus at Chequers, Downing Street says.

The prime minister is currently recuperating at his official country residence after being discharged from hospital over the weekend.

A No 10 spokesman said he wanted to "say thank you for the incredible efforts of the country’s doctors, nurses and care workers".

A drink and a face-to-face chat are simple pleasures many people crave in these times of social distancing.

But we all have to follow the rules, even if you are the mayor of the southern Australian state of Victoria.

Warrnambool mayor Tony Herbert has been fined A$1,652 ($1,043, £837) for failing to comply with social-distancing rules in the coastal city.

He was caught on camera drinking a beer while stood outside a hotel with three other people on 7 April.

Hours before the photo was taken the mayor urged Warrnambool residents to stay at home in a video shared by the city council., external

The mayor has apologised for his actions, external, admitting he “made mistakes” on the night.

Jonathan Beale
BBC defence correspondent

The BBC has learned that around 13,000 military personnel - 9% of the regular British armed forces - are now working from home, or self-isolating as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

Defence sources have told the BBC fewer than 100 military personnel have tested positive for coronavirus – but it’s not clear how many are being tested.

The Ministry of Defence insists the pandemic has not affected its ability to support government departments and the health service, and to maintain critical defence outputs.

The Labour Party has called on the MOD to step up testing.

Around 3,000 of the 20,000-strong Covid Support Force have been deployed to help with a range of tasks such as the construction of temporary hospitals and the delivery of oxygen and protective equipment.

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Military personnel are also helping conduct Covid-19 testing at a number of sites, while the MOD is looking at setting up mobile labs to help test in more remote areas.

The head of the Armed Forces, General Sir Nick Carter, said the idea of “pop-ups like mobile libraries” to test rural communities is now in development, with the military trying to create prototypes.

Today's poem is read by NHS surgeon David Mott, and dedicated "not only to my NHS colleagues on the front line, but also the social care workers, ambulance paramedics and all those working to keep this country going".

Listen to him recite Hedd Wyn's "Yr Arwr" (The Hero) for Radio 4's Today programme.

The clap for carers has now become a weekly event, with people coming out of their homes or clapping from windows to show their gratitude to key workers.

Here are some of the best pictures from around the UK...

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Undocumented migrants in the US are being affected by the pandemic in countless unique ways.

Here are a few recent developments:

• California becomes the first state to establish a $125m (£100m) fund for illegal immigrants who do not have access to unemployment assistance, despite being forced to pay into the national fund. They also do not qualify for the $1,200 cheques being sent out by the government
• In Chicago, around three dozen migrant children being held by the US Department of Health and Human Services test positive for Covid-19
• Detained migrant children in Illinois and Texas also test positive, with experts saying anyone held in detention should be released to allow for social distancing opportunities
• Central American countries appeal to the US to stop deportation flights to prevent the virus from spreading
• Guatemala's health minister says 75% of deportees on one recent flight from the US tested positive, but Trump has threatened sanctions against any country that refuses to accept deportees
• There are more and more reports of migrants who have died from the virus after refusing to go to hospital over fears that they would be reported to authorities

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Three astronauts are due to return from the International Space Station (ISS) early on Friday, to a very different planet from the one they left last year.

No strangers to isolation, Russian Oleg Skrypochka and Americans Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan left Earth in 2019, well before Covid-19 emerged.

"It's quite surreal to see it unfolding on Earth below," Ms Meir told reporters during a recent video call.

"From here, Earth looks just as stunning as usual, so it's hard to believe all of the changes that have taken place since we left."

The trio are scheduled to return to Earth at 05:00 GMT on Friday, by which time Mr Skrypochka and Ms Meir will have spent 205 days in space, and Mr Morgan 272 days.

The search party that will collect the trio following their landing back on Earth - usually somewhere in Kazakhstan - have been in strict quarantine to ensure they do not pass on the virus.

Read more here.

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The administrator of a US small business lending programme devised to assist companies affected by the coronavirus pandemic says the programme has run out of money.

The Small Business Administration said it was unable to accept new applications "based on available appropriations funding."

It has been given the task of managing the $349 billion (£280 billion) programme which grants loans to businesses so that they can pay their employees.

The news comes as Congress continues to negotiate further funding to the programme.

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US President Donald Trump is holding an event at the White House to pay his respects to truck drivers.

"In the war against the virus the truckers are the foot soldiers," the president says as he hands over "awards" - which look like gold-coloured keys - to select truckers who have been invited to speak from the White House grounds.

"To every trucker listening over the radio or behind the wheel… I say thank God for truckers," says Trump.

“Truckers keep our economy running - and now, in this time of national need - saving lives,” he adds.

And in Shipley, Yorkshire, a couple came to their doorstep to serenade their neighbours with a rendition of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" - showing their own unique thanks for carers across the UK.

In Southsea, all 94 residents of a care home came out to applaud and sing the national anthem.

They have reworked the song to thank the NHS and the carers who look after them.