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The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the virus was first reported, has no remaining cases in its hospitals, according to officials.

Mi Feng, spokesperson for the National Health Commission, told reporters the last patient in a serious condition was "cured" on Friday.

They also confirmed that there are no new cases of the virus in the city.

Since the outbreak began in December, China has reported 82, 816 cases and 4,632 deaths.

Wuhan reported 46,452 cases, 56% of the total.

UK care home staff looking after thousands of vulnerable residents are struggling to get tested for coronavirus.

Out of 210 care providers spoken to by the BBC, 159 said none of their workers had been screened.

The government has said all those care workers showing symptoms as well as their families will be tested, but some have reported long journeys to reach testing centres.

President Donald Trump did not hold his daily briefing on Saturday, tweeting that it was not worth his "time or effort" and blaming the media for asking "nothing but hostile questions".

He was heavily criticised after suggesting at Thursday's White House news conference that disinfectant could potentially be used as a treatment for the virus.

The performance caused embarrassment even among some of his supporters, BBC North America correspondent Peter Bowes says.

Mr Trump's tweet appears to confirm reports that the conferences may be coming to an end because polls suggest they have not bolstered the president's popularity among voters, our correspondent adds.

His remarks on Thursday were condemned as dangerous by doctors and manufacturers, as disinfectants are hazardous substances and can be poisonous if ingested.

In New York City, calls to the hotline for exposure to certain household chemicals more than doubled in the 18 hours after Mr Trump's remarks - 30 cases compared to 13 for the same time frame last year.

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They had been inseparable since they were 13. So when Michael and Mary Blessington were brought into hospital suffering from coronavirus, their son called the hospital to tell them to put them in adjacent beds.

In the latest of his coronavirus diaries Prof John Wright tells their story.

While the US and European nations have been at the centre of the pandemic for the past few weeks, other nations are also seeing cases rapidly rise.

In Ecuador, there are now 22,791 confirmed cases - up from six on 2 March. Officials have suggested the death toll, currently under 900, may be in the thousands and families have said they have struggled to bury their dead.

After recording its first case on 26 February,Brazil has reached 55,224 cases, with 3,762 deaths. Amid the largest outbreak in Latin America, President Jair Bolsonaro has been criticised for joining protesters against the restrictions designed to slow the virus’s spread.

Turkey confirmed its first case on 11 March and now has 107,773 - making it the seventh highest total worldwide. There have been 2,706 deaths.

And in Russia, the total number of confirmed infections reached 74,588, rising from about 1,000 on 28 March. The death toll has reached 681.

The Andrew Marr Show

We’ve got a busy Sunday morning coming up in the UK packed with interviews and opinion.

The Andrew Marr show starts on BBC One at 09:00 BST and this morning and we will be hearing from:

• The first secretary of state, Dominic Raab
• The first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon
• The shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Rachel Reeves
• Sweden’s deputy prime minister, Isabella Lovin
• German Foreign Office secretary, Andreas Michaelis

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The UK military will begin to test essential workers in "hard to reach areas across the country".

At least 96 pop-up facilities will travel to care homes, police and fire stations, prisons and benefit centres with plans to be up and running in May.

It comes as the government looks to reach its target of carrying out 100,000 tests per day by Thursday.

It took 90 days from the first reported death in Wuhan, China, on 11 January for countries to record more than 100,000 confirmed coronavirus fatalities.

Just 16 days later, that total has passed 200,000. But which countries have been hardest hit?

The US has suffered the largest death toll, with more than 52,400 recorded.

Italy, for weeks the epicentre of Europe's pandemic, has seen 26,384 deaths and is now beginning to talk about a new "Phase Two", when it can start reopening society

Spain, Franceand the UK are the other countries to report death tolls above 20,000.

In Spain, children under 14 will finally be allowed outside for the first time in six weeks on Sunday. French PM Edouard Philippe has just said he will detail his country's plan to relax the lockdown on Tuesday.

Among the most severely affected countries, Belgium has the highest number of deaths per capita, with six deaths per 100,000 people compared with 4.9 in Spain and 1.6 in the US.

But, unlike many countries, Belgium records suspected coronavirus deaths in care homes while many other countries have reported these at a later stage.

There have been more than 7,000 deaths recorded in Asian countries and a similar number in Latin America, while in the Middle East the figure is over 8,800. The current toll in Africa stands at about 1,350.

Nick Triggle
Health Correspondent

In the early stages of the coronavirus epidemic in the UK, the government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said limiting deaths to around 20,000 would be a “good outcome” given the challenge ahead.

The fact we have now passed this grim milestone in less than two months is both a tragedy for the families affected and a worry to the rest of the country.

There are strong signs - at least in hospitals - that we have passed the peak of deaths. The fact that may have happened without the health service being overwhelmed in the way Italy’s was is at least some good news.

However, the deaths in care homes, which the daily figures from government do not include, are rising rapidly and could prove very difficult to get under control.

In fact, if we included them we would have passed the 20,000 mark some time ago.

Read full analysis here.

Our team in London will be updating you throughout the day on the latest developments around the world. Here are some of the main headlines:

• More than 200,000 people around the world have now died from Covid-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. There are 2.8 million confirmed cases globally
• New York state, the epicentre of the virus in the US, will allow testing to take place in pharmacies, external. Some 5,000 pharmacies will be able to conduct the tests
• Here in the UK, more than 20,000 people have died in hospitals alone. The government is coming under more pressure to make testing more widely available
• Children under the age of 14 in Spain are now able to leave their homes, external for an hour a day. Children have not been allowed out for six weeks
• President Trump has not held his daily coronavirus briefing at the White House, tweeting that it was not worth it
• Saudi Arabia is partially lifting its lockdown. The curfew will be lifted from 09:00 to 17:00. Shops will be allowed to reopen from Wednesday for two weeks during Ramadan. However a 24 hour curfew remains in place in Mecca.
• UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will return to work on Monday. He was discharged from intensive care two weeks ago, saying medical staff had saved his life.
• In Peru, 17 police officers have died from the virus while enforcing a nationwide lockdown. On Friday, the president sacked the interior minister, Carlos Moran, who had been criticised for failing to provide officers with masks .