At a White House briefing, the president denied he might seek to change the date of November's election
Global virus cases pass 3 million, with more than 200,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock said bereaved families of NHS staff will get compensation
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK is at point of "maximum risk" and he won't ease restrictions too quickly
Italy outlined plans to ease restrictions from 4 May as it records its lowest daily death toll since mid-March
Germany made it mandatory to wear masks on public transport
Nigeria’s President Buhari has announced a gradual easing of the lockdown that has been in place in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun states for the last month.
The changes will start on Monday 4 May.
The number of coronavirus cases around the world has now exceeded three million, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The BBC's visual and data journalism team has been tracking the pandemic.
See more of their maps and charts showing how the virus has spread since it emerged in China in December last year.
More than three million cases of coronavirus have now been registered in 185 countries worldwide, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University. So how does the US university collect this data?
The figures provided by Johns Hopkins is collated from several sources, including the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, government health departments from around the world, local media reports and a large online community of healthcare professionals.
The data, which is displayed in an online map, external, is updated "in near real time throughout the day" both automatically and by manual input, the university says.
Developed by Prof Lauren Gardner, a civil and systems engineering professor at Johns Hopkins, the map - or dashboard - was first shared online on 22 January. It was initially built and maintained with the help of a graduate student, Ensheng Dong, but later, as the virus spread, required the help of others at the university.
Numerous media outlets cite the dashboard in their reporting and it is one of the sources used by the BBC. Since it was made available in January, the university says that daily requests for its data have grown to more than a billion.
A 98-year-old British man who survived coronavirus after a week in a hospital has thanked its "excellent" staff, saying he had a "jolly good time" in their care.
Doug Moore from Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, was taken to Kettering General Hospital earlier this month after having a fall and showing symptoms of Covid-19. Fortunately, he did not need to be admitted to intensive care.
Hospital staff lined a corridor and applauded when he was eventually discharged.
Describing his time at the hospital, the World War Two veteran said: "It was in fact quite enjoyable. I met a number of people that one wouldn't possibly meet. Staff were absolutely excellent. A jolly good time, really, if that's a strange thing to say, but it was."
Image source, ReutersThe director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has defended its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said countries should have listened to the agency after it declared a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” on 30 January, when there were 82 cases outside China and no deaths.
"The world should have listened to WHO then, carefully," he told reporters.
"We advised the whole world to implement a comprehensive public health approach, and we said: ‘Find, test, isolate, and do contact tracing.’ You can check for yourselves: countries who followed that are in a better position than others.”
US President Donald Trump ordered the suspension of US funding to the agency after accusing it of “severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus”.
Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesAfter three days without a coronavirus task force briefing, the White House now says they will take on a new format as the president prepares for a Monday evening press conference instead. Why the change?
Part press briefing, part grievance-airing, all Trump spectacle, the daily coronavirus task force show, broadcast live from the White House for the past month, appears to be over.
At first, the high viewership appeared to be translating into improved overall public approval for the president, prompting some of the president's critics - who considered the events more style than substance - to demand the news media stop covering them.
As the US death toll from the virus mounted and the economic hardship worsened, however, the president’s job numbers once again declined.
The criticisms culminated last week in widespread outrage and derision after he suggested that scientists research using disinfectants and light to destroy the virus inside a human body.
Some White House aides had been urging the president to back off from the daily briefings, and at last he appears to have agreed.
Despite enjoying the national spotlight, the president may have acknowledged that the events were doing more political harm than good.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he's releasing a "roadmap, not a timeline" for when the economy will re-open.
The province accounts for 41% of Canada's population.
Schools are closed until at least 31 May, and Mr Ford avoided giving any hint as to when other restrictions might be eased.
His plan says there will need to be a consistent decline in new coronavirus cases for two to four weeks before he begins to re-open the economy in incremental stages.
There were 424 new cases of Covid-19 – a 2.9% increase – on Monday.
Image source, Getty ImagesWhatsApp says it has seen a drop of 70% in "highly forwarded" messages - the kind that may spread misinformation about the coronavirus.
The World Health Organization has said the spread of fake news about the outbreak is an "info-demic".
And two weeks ago, WhatsApp stopped messages sent between individual users five times or more then being posted to more than one chat group at a time. But experts say it still has more to do in the battle against misinformation.
“WhatsApp is committed to doing our part in tackling viral messages," a spokesman for the messaging platform said. "This change is helping keep WhatsApp a place for personal and private conversations."
Image source, Getty ImagesThe sports industry, like other industries, is trying to figure out how to resume activity safely.
Here are the latest developments:
Image source, Getty ImagesUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says his country is doing more than any other to combat Covid-19 in Africa.
Speaking during a phone briefing with journalists in Africa, the top diplomat said the US is not reducing its spending on global healthcare despite the Trump administration's decision to stop funding the "dysfunctional" World Health Organisation.
"We have a massive effort to help our African partners fight Covid-19," Pompeo said.
"No other nation is doing more than we are. We committed more than $170m to this fight in Africa."
He said that Washington wasn't looking to cut back aid but wanted the money to go to a multi-national institution that "can actually deliver good outcomes".
When asked by the BBC's Africa correspondent Andrew Harding about whether America's image abroad had been damaged by recent comments from President Trump about treating Covid-19 with detergent, Mr Pompeo said foreign governments and media were spreading false information.
Mr Pompeo was also critical of China, saying it was trapping African nations in deep debt while giving relatively little away in aid.
US President Donald Trump will brief the nation at 17:00 EST (21:00 GMT; 22:00 BST), the White House has said.
Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweeted, external that there would be "additional testing guidance and other announcements about safely opening up America again".
Ms McEnany had told reporters earlier that Monday's Coronavirus Task Force briefing was cancelled and that briefings might be resumed later in the week in a "new format".
Ahead of the news conference, the president will meet industry leaders to discuss the response to Covid-19.
Reality Check
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said at today's daily press briefing that the UK has “already gone past the number of tests per day for instance that they carry out in South Korea, we’re approaching the levels that Germany undertakes".
The UK government has completed around 670,000 tests on 543,000 people. 37,024 tests were conducted over the past 24 hours. This is the highest daily testing figure the UK has achieved so far.
The UK’s daily testing average over the past week has been just shy of 23,000 tests a day. Germany has been carrying out 450,000 tests a week, according to its government, equivalent to 64,000 a day.
In South Korea, testing figures are only measured by the number of people tested per day. The highest daily figure for South Korea was 15,370 people tested on 31 March. In the UK, the highest number of people tested in a 24-hour period was 25,577 on 26 April.
Jessica Parker
BBC political correspondent
There’s now a new element to the daily Downing Street press briefings - a question from a member of the public to open up the Q&A.
The pollster YouGov has been charged with filtering through submissions and it will be up to ministers to read the questions if those who pose them decide against submitting a video.
In recent weeks, journalists have raised questions on range of topics, including testing targets, support for businesses, PPE, police powers and the route out of lockdown.
But it was a more personal take on that latter issue today from Lynne in Skipton.
She wanted to know whether, as one of the first steps out of lockdown, she might be able to hug her grandchildren?
The answer came that it would depend on her circumstances.
And the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, again emphasised that the fastest way out for everyone was to follow the rules.
As so often can be the case with coronavirus, the question put might be straightforward.
But the answer that emerges is nuanced and complex.
Reality Check
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock referred to the new type of loan for small businesses, which will be able to borrow up to £50,000.
Taxpayers will take all the risk if these loans are not repaid. Also, public money will cover all of the fees and interest in the first year.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak had been under pressure to introduce a 100% guarantee for his existing scheme for small and medium businesses to borrow up to £5m, which is currently only 80% protected.
That scheme has been criticised for being too complicated and fewer than half of applications have been approved, according to the latest figures from UK Finance., external
Adil El Tayar became the first working NHS surgeon to die from coronavirus in Britain.
Zeinab Badawi mourns the death of the renowned surgeon and family member who, like her, was born in Sudan but has spent most of his life in the UK.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo offered his daily update on the situation in his state, which remains the epicentre of the Covid-19 outbreak in the US.
Here are the key takeaways:
What were the key announcements and talking points from today's UK government briefing?
*The families of NHS and social care workers who have lost loved ones to coronavirus will be entitled to a £60,000 payment.
*The special life assurance scheme will apply to foreign workers and those who have returned from retirement.
*Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the UK was “on track” to meet its target of 100,000 tests by the end of the month.
*Chief Medical Officer Prof Chris Whitty said the number of cases is stabilising and the number of people in intensive care falling but he was "very cautious" about predicting future trends and death rates.
*The health secretary appealed to those with other serious illnesses to seek help, announcing the phased restart of previously cancelled hospital procedures, starting on Tuesday with cancer care.
Talking about the number of hospital deaths, Prof Whitty stressed there are reporting lags over weekends and that he expects there will be an "uptick" later in the week.
"Nevertheless the trend overall... is a gradual decline, but we are definitely not consistently past the peak across the whole country at this point in time," he said.
Earlier, he said the percentage of critical care beds being used for Covid-19 patients is "gradually trending down".
Speaking about those figures, he said the peak is "very gradual", adding: "We're not seeing a dramatic fall off and nor do we expect to in the next short while."
Image source, UK governmentReality Check
In Monday's daily government briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock revealed that 37,024 tests for coronavirus were carried out on Sunday.
That’s far below the government’s target of 100,000 daily tests by the end of April, with only four days to go.
Up until recently, the government was carrying out about 20,000 tests a day, so this represents an almost doubling of that figure.
The government has now said that up to 10m key workers and their households in England can ask for a test.
We explain more here about how the testing system works.
Back to the now-completed UK briefing, where Prof Whitty said the trend in the number of new cases was "flat or slightly down".
He said the latest chart showing the number of people admitted to hospital suggests "we are going through the peak".
There is a bigger fall in London, he said, but the trend is either "flat or decreasing over time" elsewhere.
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