Earlier at 10:11 BST we told you about how Olympic champion and men’s world record holder, Eliud Kipchoge was spending his Sunday with no London Marathon to take part in.

But what about all the recreational runners and those who were due to participate for good causes and charities around the world?

Well for some, back-garden marathons or pounding out the steps in a hospital ward are the new reality.

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Asked about whether he relished standing in for the prime minister, who is due to return to work tomorrow, Raab said his job had been to "step up just like the rest of the country".

"When your prime minister is stricken with the coronavirus, and particularly when we knew it was touch and go, you're thinking very much personally of him but also the role of leading the government," he said.

"I also think of the country, and the position it's in. And like all of those key workers, like the rest of the country, my job is just to step up to the plate."

Raab added Boris Johnson was "raring to go".

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Buying drugs, nail clippers for the dog and not watching the news are just some of the bizarre excuses used for flouting the lockdown in Wales.

Police forces in the country have released examples of the reasons people have given for supposed “essential” travel.

The lockdown has been in place for five weeks to stop the spread of the virus.

Most people are following the advice to remain at home but police said a small number had "selfishly put others at risk".

People found breaking the rules can be fined a fixed penalty fee of £60 ($74).

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Dominic Raab has said ramping up testing for coronavirus is key to the "medium-to-long-term" plan as he reiterated the UK government was on track to reach 100,000 daily tests by the end of April.

"We have certainly got to get the daily testing up to hundreds of thousands. That, along with tracking and tracing, will give us more flexibility to open up measures, open up access," he said. "That, along with vaccine and therapeutics will be the medium-long-term way to fight this virus."

When asked by Andrew Marr about reports the UK had ordered 30 million antibody tests amid a breakthrough in the technology, Raab said: "I'm not sure we have ordered those but we are certainly looking closely at it".

He said he was not sure if the antibody test, which would show if someone had had the virus and therefore possibly immunity, could be scaled up at this stage.

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For many businesses, coronavirus has proved a tough challenge.

With shops closed and staff on furlough, many are wondering how they are going to survive the pandemic.

However some companies are finding ways to thrive during the crisis.

One of those is Stitch and Story, a small business that sells materials and provides tutorials to those who want to learn how to knit and crochet.

"Sales are surging, up massively. We had an 800% increase in March alone compared to the same period last year," said co-founder Jennifer Lam.

Read more about the other businesses here.

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she could lift the lockdown measures in Scotland at a diferent pace to other parts of the UK if necessary. But any such decision would not be political.

Sturgeon told Andrew Marr: "If, and it is an if, I'm not saying that we're likely to get in to this territory, the UK government took decisions that I thought were premature in terms of coming out of the lockdown then clearly I would want to make sure that Scotland did what I judged was best to protect the population."

She also agreed that pupils could return to school on different days to allow for social-distancing measures but said it would not be safe to do so yet.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab later told Marr he would not be drawn on what measures might be put in place for schools but said it was "inconceivable" schools would not return without measures like those currently in place for the teaching of essential workers' children.

Germany has been held up as an exemplar for its response to the pandemic.

The latest figures from the Robert Koch Institute, external, the German public health agency, put the number of deaths in the country at 5,500, which is lower than the UK, Spain, Italy, France and the US.

Andreas Michaelis, a senior foreign ministry official, says that is in part down to "luck" and also his government’s decision to maintain excess capacity in intensive care units.

Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, he said the country had 40,000 intensive care beds, 30,000 of which can be used with ventilators.

“This is really a heritage of our health system – it is almost the core factor of our health system.

“A lot of experts were criticising us for having too much capacity, too much expenditure – I think the people of Germany can now say that’s an extra capacity they are very happy to have financed in the past.”

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called on the country to stick to its lockdown as cases in the country continue to rise.

There has been an increase of 2,000 cases registered in the past 24 hours. So far, more than 26,000 cases have been reported and more than 800 people have died.

In a nationwide radio address, Modi called on people to maintain social distancing and to end the habit of spitting in public.

“I will urge you that we should not be trapped into over-confidence and nurse the belief that in our city, in our village, in our streets, in our office, coronavirus has not reached and that is why it will not reach,” he said.

On Saturday, small shops in the country were allowed to open, external with 50% of staff as long as social distancing can be maintained and staff wear masks.

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Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who has been deputising for Prime Minister Boris Johnson while he was ill with coronavirus, admitted to Andrew Marr that "we are not where we would want to be on PPE".

Raab said 78 NHS workers and 16 care workers had died from the virus and it had been challenging to obtain personal protective equipment.

But the first secretary of state said the UK was now the "international buyer of choice" for PPE amid a global shortage.

"No stone is being left unturned," he said, both in terms of domestic production and globally acquiring kit.

Sweden has been more relaxed than many other countries in the restrictions it has brought in.

Deputy Prime Minister Isabella Lovin has been on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme.

She told him the pandemic was a “marathon and not a sprint”.

And she said it was a “great myth” that Sweden hasn’t taken serious steps to try and address the pandemic.

The country has limited gatherings to 50 people and banned people from visiting nursing homes.

Sweden has a higher death rate than neighbouring Scandinavian countries. More than 2,000 people have died compared with 193 in Norway.

She said: “I think every country needs to take its own measures but it’s a real fear that if you have too harsh measures, then they can’t be sustained all the time, maybe you can get a counter reaction and people will not respect the recommendations that need to be there for a really long time until we have a vaccine and until the pandemic has an end.

“We don’t want to fatigue the situation,” she added.

Read more: Has Sweden got its science right?

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Oxford University's Prof Christophe Fraser told the BBC's Andrew Marr between three and 10% of the population was predicted to have contracted coronavirus by this stage - up to six million people.

Prof Fraser is working on developing an app which would allow for tracing people who had been in touch with those with Covid-19.

Prof Fraser said the app helps deal with the problem of 50% of transmissions taking place from people who are infected but not yet showing symptoms.

He said with the software, people could be alerted if they had come into contact with a person with symptoms, in which case they should observe stronger social-distancing, or a confirmed case which would mean going into isolation.

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If this was an ordinary April, we would expect to see the world’s best distance runners and tens of thousands of others pounding the streets, taking part in the London Marathon.

But given the lockdown, that of course is no longer an option for the likes of Olympic champion and men’s world record holder, Eliud Kipchoge, who was due to race in the now rearranged event.

Instead, the Kenyan is encouraging people to get involved in the 2.6 Challenge, which aims to raise money for charity during the lockdown, with his focus on his home country.

In a post on Twitter, external, Kipchoge provided people with the incentive of bidding on a running vest from his sub-two-hour marathon in October and said, “I am happy to participate in the #TwoPointSixChallenge whereby today the London Marathon would have raised wonderful funds for charities. I want to invite you to join me in the challenge.”

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Israel allowed some businesses to reopen on Sunday and said it would consider reopening schools.

Shops with street access are allowed to open but shopping malls and markets must remain closed.

Under the new restrictions, restaurants are now allowed to offer take-away food in addition to delivery services.

However, officials have warned that the changes are reversible should the number of cases rise.

Israel has had 15,398 cases and 199 people have died.

The Labour Party's Rachel Reeves has told Andrew Marr it is "incredibly important" the government takes people with it by showing them a path to coming out of lockdown.

The Labour MP for Leeds West and shadow cabinet office minister said: "I think the vast majority of people support the lockdown and want to support the government and national effort.

"It is important that people continue to stick by the rules because it is only by doing that that we will defeat the virus.

"We must take people with us on this journey by giving them a greater idea of what comes next."

She also called for testing at community level in venues such as town halls or libraries so that people without cars could reach them.

The state of New York, the epicentre of the Covid-19 outbreak in the US, is planning to allow pharmacies to carry out tests for the virus.

Governor Andrew Cuomo said some 5,000 pharmacies would be able to carry out testing, with the aim to provide 40,000 per day.

It is part of a drive to find out how widely the virus has spread across the state of 20 million people.

"Twenty-one days of hell, and now we are back to where we were 21 days ago," he said. "Testing is what we are compulsively or obsessively focused on now."

Healthcare staff and essential workers - such as police officers, firefighters, bus drivers and shop assistants - would be able to get tests even if they did not have any symptoms of infection, he said.

This was important not just for their own safety but also to protect the public, he said.

The US has more than 938,000 confirmed cases. Almost a third of the 53,751 deaths happened in New York City alone.

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Saudi Arabia eased some of its restrictions on Sunday.

A 24-hour curfew has been lifted and people will be able to move freely from 0900 to 1700 local time.

From Wednesday, shops will be allowed to open and some factories will resume operations.

The eased restrictions, which cover the first two weeks of Ramadan, won't apply to places where social distancing can't be maintained such as gyms and restaurants.

The cities of Mecca and Medina and previously quarantined neighbourhoods will remain under lockdown.

More than 16,000 cases have been confirmed and 136 people have died in the country.

Dr Rosena Allin-Khan, Labour MP for Tooting and the party's spokeswoman on mental health, has told Sophie Ridge on Sunday she came home from hospital shifts “heartbroken” at not being able to comfort grieving families.

She said the UK entered lockdown “too late” and that the government was failing on “mass testing and contact tracing” as well as on access to PPE (protective personal equipment).

“It would have been impossible to save all the lives that we’ve lost but we did enter lockdown too late, we did not deliver PPE to the front line when it was needed, we did not follow global advice on self-isolation and we haven’t rolled out mass testing and contact tracing."

The government insists it is basing its decisions on science and that testing will reach 100,000 a day by the end of the month.

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Governments should not issue so-called "immunity passports" or "risk-free certificates" as a way of easing lockdowns, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

It said there was "no evidence" that people who had developed antibodies after recovering from the virus were protected against a second infection.

Immunity passports could actually increase virus transmission, it warned.

People who assumed they were immune might stop taking precautions, the WHO said.

Some governments have considered permitting people who have recovered to travel or return to work.

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As if being in lockdown with 10 children was not tough enough father-of-13 Roy Hann, from Dundee, has now tested positive for coronavirus himself.

The Hann family are known as one of the largest families in Scotland.

Nurse practitioner Roy said the illness had been "very mild" and that he had been surprised to test positive due to using protective equipment at work.

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Sir Richard Branson is seeking urgent offers for his stricken airline Virgin Atlantic.

The billionaire Virgin Group boss has asked the UK government for a commercial loan, believed to be around £500m and said his Necker Island home in the Caribbean could be used as collateral.

It comes as Virgin Group's airline in Australia enters administration.

The airline had asked the Australian government for £710 million but the request was denied.

The airline, which serviced domestic as well as short-haul international destinations, was founded in 2000 by Sir Richard and was one of Australia’s main aviation providers.

In a letter to the airline’s staff, which he tweeted, Sir Richard said it “is not the end for Virgin Australia, but I believe a new beginning”.