The number of covid-19 patients who died in UK hospitals has risen to 16,060 as of 17:00 BST on Saturday, the Department of Health and Social Care say.

That is an increase of 596 in 24 hours - down from the previous daily death toll of 888.

As of 09:00 BST on Sunday, 482,063 tests have been conducted, with 21,626 tests carried out on Saturday.

A total of 372,967 people have been tested of which 120,067 tested positive.

With a third of the world's population under some form of lockdown, people are told to as go out as little as possible and to stick to social distancing rules.

In the UK, the restrictions have been extended by three weeks from 16 April.

Find out more about UK social distancing and self-isolation rules here.

Lockdown in the Irish village of Dalkey, an affluent suburb of Dublin, has taken an unexpected turn since residents discovered that they currently number actor Matt Damon.

The Bourne Identity star was in the Republic of Ireland to film The Last Duel, to be directed by Ridley Scott, and has been pictured on social media in Dalkey during the restrictions.

His presence has prompted a journalist from the New York Times to ask people in Dalkey what it’s like to have the actor as a neighbour during the pandemic.

"Anyone living in Dalkey has a right to their privacy. Leave him alone, jesus, he’s only human,” said one response on Facebook., external

Damon starred in the 2011 film Contagion - about the spread of a virus transmitted by respiratory droplets - along with Kate Winslet, Jennifer Ehle and Laurence Fishburne.

In March, the stars of the film released public service announcements urging the public to social-distance and wash their hands.

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BBC News, Nairobi

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Police in Kenya implementing coronavirus restrictions have arrested four people who disguised themselves as mourners taking a body for burial.

They had left the capital, Nairobi, and travelled 370km (about 230 miles) west with an empty coffin in the vehicle before being intercepted, the health minister said on Saturday.

Nearly two weeks ago, travel in and out of Nairobi was restricted, along with another three regions considered to be coronavirus hot spots.

The group of fake mourners had managed to pass through several checkpoints before suspicious officers in Homa Bay County opened the coffin, Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe said.

The driver later tested positive for Covid-19, the respiratory illness caused by the virus. His three passengers have now been put into quarantine.

The minister said officials were investigating various schemes allegedly being used to circumvent the travel ban, including reports that people had been bribing police at roadblocks.

The East African nation has recorded 262 cases of Covid-19, including 12 deaths.

• Read: Kenyan weddings, births and deaths in the age of Covid-19

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A quarter of orders with clothing suppliers are being cancelled by supermarket chain Asda because of a drop in demand.

Asda has also told suppliers that it will only pay for part of such cancelled orders - a move which has angered suppliers, according to the Sunday Times, external,

A spokesperson for the supermarket said Covid-19 had "had a significant impact" on the fashion industry.

Asda told the BBC that suppliers would be paid 30% of the order value for those that had not yet been finished, and half for those that had. That rises to 60% for manufacturers based in Bangladesh.

The chain has seen a surge in demand for groceries in the UK as consumers are staying at home amid lockdown measures.

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Iran has become the latest country to ease restrictions by allowing bazaars and shopping malls to reopen from Monday as part of an easing of lockdown restrictions. Some shops and businesses were allowed to open again on Saturday but Monday's openings will apply to "medium-risk" businesses.

Officials say more than 5,000 people have died with coronavirus in Iran so far but the true figure is believed to be much higher.

Other countries also plan to allow stores to begin operating again in the coming days:

• Israel has already allowed some types of shop to reopen, although shopping malls must remain closed for the time being
• Poland is gradually lifting lockdown measures from Sunday, with shops among the businesses allowed to reopen
• Europe's largest economy, Germany, will allow shops of up to 800 square metres (8,611 square feet), as well as car dealers and bike shops, to open their doors again

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Six of the UK’s most popular TikTok content creators have moved in together and are trying to meet a surge in demand from teenagers in lockdown, despite some doubts about the timing.

The Bytehouse collective planned the move prior to the coronavirus pandemic and completed it before the UK lockdown on 23 March. It is the UK's first "TikTok house", a phenomenon already established in the US.

With a combined following of more than 14 million people, their clips currently reach more than 73 million people a week.

The short-form video-sharing social media platform was 2019's second most downloaded app after WhatsApp.

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Sir David Attenborough has agreed that humans are victims of their own success, as he faced questions about the coronavirus pandemic.

In an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr, the environmentalist and veteran TV broadcaster said: “Anybody who knows anything about keeping animals of any kind, the more dense population you keep, the quicker the disease will spread.

"And there's never been a denser population of human species until this moment.”

When asked whether humans were victims of their own success, he replied: "Certainly."

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With barely 60 ventilators for 11 million people, Haiti is the most vulnerable nation in the Americas to coronavirus.

The reality inside Haiti's intensive care units is even bleaker than that number - taken from a 2019 study - suggests. According to Stephan Dragon, a respiratory therapist in the capital, Port-au-Prince, the true number of ventilators is actually closer to 40, and maybe 20 of those are not working.

So far, this impoverished nation has only registered three deaths and 40 confirmed cases but many more cases may be going unreported, especially in remote areas.

It is 10 years since Haiti was hit by a devastating earthquake. More than 200,000 people died and a million people were left homeless.

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A consignment of personal protective equipment (PPE) is not expected to arrive in the UK today after all.

The government had said on Saturday that 84 tonnes of PPE, including 400,000 gowns, would arrive in the UK from Turkey today, following concerns that hospitals would run out of protective garments this weekend.

Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick had described the extra resources as "very significant".

The UK Foreign Office said they were working to ensure the PPE from Turkey was delivered "as soon as possible".

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It's not just in the US that some people are protesting against the impact of lockdown measures.

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Brazil's largest cities on Saturday to demand an end to the restrictions, which are also opposed by President Jair Bolsonaro.

The demonstrators rode cars and other vehicles through Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Brasilia against lockdown rules put in place by Brazilian states.

Bolsonaro has previously called coronavirus "a little flu" and recently fired his health minister, who had urged people to observe social distancing and stay indoors.

The country has the largest number of confirmed coronavirus infections in Latin America, with almost 37,000 cases, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 2,000 people have died.

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BBC Moscow Correspondent

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Millions of Orthodox believers in Russia are celebrating Easter with churches closed and services broadcast on TV and online in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

In Moscow the main Easter vigil was held with no congregation. The patriarch told those following at homes that this was to protect them from a "terrible illness".

President Vladimir Putin, who normally attends Mass with the Patriarch, sent a video message to the nation instead. He assured people that things were "fully under control" and said Russia would come through the "trial" it had been sent.

But the country announced another surge in new cases on Sunday, taking the total infected so far close to 43,000.

With more than 100,000 tests done each day, the number of cases detected here is growing and fast. Most are still in and around Moscow but the virus is increasingly spreading in the regions.

Despite all this, some parishes do seem to have defied the lockdown to attend services in places.

• Read more about Orthodox Easter around the world

As the UK prepares to enter a fifth week of lockdown, people are trying to find different ways to deal with their worries and fears.

Liz Fox, a cake-maker from Essex, has explained how baking has helped her cope with anxiety - and how it can help others too during the coronavirus pandemic.

She set up her baking business in 2014 after being diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and then depression.

"I discovered that baking really helped to ease the symptoms of both," she said. Charities that deal with people with anxiety in the UK have reported a surge in calls since the outbreak of coronavirus.

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While countries around the world are trying to prepare a lockdown exit strategy, Denmark is one of the first European nations to have already started lifting restrictions.

Primary schools and nurseries are already open, and small businesses, including hairdressers and beauty clinics, are allowed to open from Monday.

Danish ambassador to the UK Lars Thuesen told Sky: "All our key indicators are pointing in the right direction.

"If we look at the number of people in hospital, the number of people in intensive care, the number of patients on ventilators, these numbers have been stable or have been coming down the last two weeks or so.

“So we're definitely not out of the woods yet but we are moving in the right direction. And we can’t stay in a lockdown forever."

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There have been a number of demonstrations across US states in recent days.

Some activists believe restrictions to stop coronavirus have gone too far and are calling for them to be relaxed.

Many worry the gatherings could spread Covid-19 further, with 39,000 deaths and 735,000 cases recorded throughout the US.

President Donald Trump has also become involved in the growing row. He was accused of promoting the protests on Friday, when he posted a series of tweets encouraging people to “liberate” a number of states.

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Sunday morning brings with it a flurry of political interviews and expert commentary. Let's loop back to some of the key speakers from this morning's political shows.

Sir Jeremy Farrar, a member of the UK Government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said he thought the UK was past the peak of the "first wave" of the virus but warned that if lockdown measures were lifted too soon the virus could come back in a few weeks.

The infectious diseases expert was hopeful the restrictions could be eased within about three or four weeks if the number of infections dropped "dramatically".

He told Sky he was "optimistic" about finding a vaccine for Covid-19 but acknowledged: "The truth is we don't have another vaccine for any other human coronavirus."

He added: "It's not a given that we will make a vaccine."

Prof John Wright is a doctor and epidemiologist who works at the Bradford Royal Infirmary (BRI). He has been keeping a diary for the BBC about handling the Covid-19 outbreak.

In his latest feature, Prof Wright writes about conspiracy theories spreading within parts of the black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities where he lives.

He and colleagues fear these fake news reports, like the example above, are making members of these communities fearful of going to hospital for treatment.

It comes in the context of data which suggests BAME communities are being disproportionately affected by the virus in the UK - something Downing Street has now pledged to investigate.

People who are showing particular symptoms are being told to self-isolate in order to stop the coronavirus from spreading further.

According to the National Health Service in the UK, if you have a fever or a persistent cough, you should stay at home for seven days. The people you live with should stay at home for 14 days, and have food and medicine delivered.

But how do you know if you’re just ill, feeling a bit ropey or if you have the symptoms of coronavirus? What do the symptoms of coronavirus feel like?

BBC health and science reporter Laura Foster takes a look.

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Taiwan has quarantined some 700 navy officers, servicemen and cadets for testing after 24 members of their mission tested positive for Covid-19.

Taiwan’s Health Minister, Chen Shih-chung, said 22 new daily cases had been confirmed, including 21 in the military.

The cases were found on one of three ships in a fleet that visited the small Pacific island of Palau last month, according to officials.

The mission returned on Wednesday to a ceremony where President Tsai Ing-wen was present but, according to her office, she only waved at the sailors from the shore.

The latest confirmed cases bring the total on the island to 420, with six deaths.

Senior UK minister Michael Gove has conceded that the government made mistakes in its handling of the coronavirus.

He told the BBC's Andrew Marr: "All governments make mistakes, including our own. We seek to learn and to improve every day.

"It is the case, I'm sure, at some point in the future, that there will be an opportunity for us to look back, to reflect and to learn some profound lessons."

His comments come following accusations that the UK government was slow to act in preparing for the health crisis.