Umer Draz Nangiana
BBC Urdu, Lahore

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Engineers at a university in Karachi have come up with a prototype of a ventilator to help Pakistan deal with the outbreak.

The team at NED University of Engineering and Technology are putting the ventilator through its final tests - clinical trials are likely to start this week before it goes into production.

The man behind the initiative, Dr Riazuddin, told BBC Urdu his device meets international standards: "It can be run in both invasive and non-invasive situations on ICU patients.”

Pakistan has confirmed more than 12,500 coronavirus cases so far and 269 deaths. Officials warn the virus could spread rapidly during the holy month of Ramadan, which began at the weekend.

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Tennis star Rafael Nadal is known as the King of Clay - but can he become the King of Clay-Station this week?

From today, the Spanish 19-time Grand Slam champion is one of 32 leading players taking part in a virtual version of the Madrid Open on PlayStation 4.

Britain's Andy Murray is also among the men competing online, while the women's tournament features fellow Grand Slam champions Caroline Wozniacki and Bianca Andreescu.

Both tournaments have separate prize pots of 150,000 euros (£131,210). Each champion will decide how to distribute the money into the relief funds set up to support lower-ranked players whose incomes have dried up during the pandemic.

Read more about tennis' biggest venture into esports here.

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Sides in Italian football's Serie A will be allowed to return to individual training on 4 May and team training on 18 May after the Italian prime minister announced the first steps in lifting the country's coronavirus lockdown.

There are hopes Serie A fixtures could resume between 27 May and 2 June - with an end date for the season of early August.

Parks will also reopen in the country, which has Europe’s highest official death toll. The country reported 260 new deaths on Sunday - the lowest daily tally since 14 March.

In Germany, the Bundesliga plans to play spectator-free games next month but Spanish football is unlikely to return until the summer, the country's health minister Salvador Illa said.

The Dutch Eredivisie season was abandoned on Friday, but the Premier League hopes to complete its season with the UK government trying to help elite sport to resume behind closed doors.

A further 13 people who tested positive for coronavirus in Scotland have died, taking the country's total to 1,262 deaths.

Speaking at a Scottish government briefing, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon pointed out there were some delays to registration of deaths at the weekend, and these figures might be higher in the coming days.

She confirmed that 10,521 people had tested positive for Covid-19, an increase of 197 from yesterday's figure.

The latest figures for the whole of the UK are expected to be announced by the Department of Health and Social Care later.

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The French Grand Prix has been postponed from its 28 June date, the 10th consecutive Formula One race to be called off as a result of the coronavirus crisis.

The move had been considered inevitable since President Emmanuel Macron expanded the country's ban on mass gatherings until mid-July.

Meanwhile, organisers of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone say spectators will not be allowed this year.

Under current plans, the old British GP date of 19 July would be the first of two races at Silverstone, the second a week later on 26 July.

The season would start with the Austrian Grand Prix on 5 July, followed by a second race at the Red Bull Ring on 12 July.

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Lockdowns in several countries caused by the coronavirus pandemic seem to be having an effect on some people's dreams.

A large number of social media users are talking about having unusually vivid ones. But why is this happening and what can you do to make your sleep more peaceful? We asked an expert:

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Norwegian Air has said it may run out of cash by mid-May if its creditors and shareholders do not approve the company's financial rescue plan.

The budget carrier has already grounded 95% of its fleet due to the pandemic. Last week four of its staffing subsidiaries filed for bankruptcy, and it cancelled contracts with a jointly owned firm that provides crew in Spain, UK, Finland, Sweden and the US. The two actions put 4,700 jobs at risk.

Norwegian has proposed a debt-to-equity swap which would hand the majority of control to the company's lessors. The move would allow it to tap into government guarantees of 2.7bn Norwegian Krone ($255m; £205m), on top of the 300m Krone it has already been granted.

Separate votes will be held on the plan by bondholders, shareholders and leasing firms. If approved, Norwegian could potentially ground its fleet until April 2021, aside from a handful of aircraft currently flying in Scandinavia.

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The chief executive of Airbus has issued a stark assessment of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the plane maker.

In a letter to workers, seen by news outlets, Guillaume Faury warned the company was "bleeding cash at an unprecedented speed".

This month the firm announced it was cutting aircraft production by a third.

Meanwhile, its main rival Boeing is also battling another major crisis due to the year-long grounding of its 737 Max passenger jet, which had been its best-selling plane.

• More on this story here.

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Criminal gangs in El Salvador are taking advantage of the fact that police are busy dealing with the coronavirus pandemic to commit more murders, the country's president says.

President Nayib Bukele authorised the police and army to use lethal force to curb the violence after more than 50 people were killed between Friday and Sunday.

Read more about the measures Nayib Bukele is taking, including keeping jailed gang members confined to their cells 24/7.

You can also get a rare glimpse into El Salvador's prisons here.

Coronavirus has led to a "global slowdown" in the removal of internet child abuse images, campaigners say.

The Internet Watch Foundation has warned that tech firms have fewer staff to delete illegal material, making it easier for sexual predators to view and share content.

Almost 90% fewer suspicious web addresses have been deleted during the pandemic, the charity said.

The warning came as the IWF's annual report said Europe was the "hub" for child sexual abuse photos and videos.

"We have seen a real and frightening jump in the amount of child sexual abuse material that is being hosted right on our doorstep here in Europe," IWF chief executive Susie Hargreaves said.

Read the full story here.

Everything you need to know about the coronavirus – explained in just one minute.

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Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, has mandated the compulsory use of face masks in public, as confirmed coronavirus cases continue to rise locally.

The governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said Lagos state - home to 20 million people - was firmly in the community transmission phase of the pandemic and there was a need for more precautions.

Lagos and Ogun states, as well as Nigeria’s capital Abuja, are in the fourth week of federally imposed lockdowns due to expire at midnight on Monday.

Sanwo-Olu said failure by residents to use face masks in public places would attract penalties and sanctions.

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Reconstruction work on Notre-Dame cathedral, which was damaged in a fire last year, has resumed after it was halted because of the country's lockdown restrictions.

Officials said workers were refitting the construction site to ensure social distancing rules could be maintained.

The fire tore through the 850-year-old structure last April, destroying its spire and roof. The main structure survived however, and President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to restore the site within five years.

Michelle Roberts
Health editor, BBC News online

NHS doctors and GPs in the UK have been sent an alert warning them to look out for a rare but dangerous reaction in children that may be linked to coronavirus infection.

The alert said that in the past few weeks, intensive care departments in London and other parts of the UK have been treating children with a “multisystem inflammatory state” that looks similar to toxic shock syndrome or sepsis.

These young patients of varying ages have had gastrointestinal symptoms – tummy pain, vomiting or diarrhoea – and inflammation of the heart, as well as abnormal blood test results.

The alert, which was issued to GPs in North London by their clinical commissioning group but has now been shared more widely, advises such cases are urgent and should be treated as such.

It is unclear how many have been diagnosed with the illness, although the numbers will be low.

Some of the cases have tested positive for coronavirus but others haven’t.

There is “a growing concern” that a coronavirus-related inflammatory syndrome is emerging in children in the UK, the alert says, or that there may be another, as yet unidentified, infection linked to these cases.

Governments around the world are proposing contact tracing as a way of limiting the spread of coronavirus after lockdown.

Contact tracing can be done from memory, but smartphone apps that can automate the process have also been developed. We explain what contact tracing is and some of the methods that have been proposed.

The daily UK coronavirus briefing from Downing Street has become a familiar fixture since March, but now the public will now be able to submit questions.

The government says submissions will be reviewed at midday and only one question will be chosen by an independent polling organisation. The person selected can then have their question read out or can ask it themselves in a pre-recorded video.

To take part you have to be over 18 and submit your question and some personal details online, external.

The BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg said she had received thousands of emails from the public in the past few weeks - with the most common themes being people worried about jobs and income, concerns about personal protective equipment and questions over why travellers are allowed to arrive in the UK without health checks.

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Some students in Shanghai and Beijing have returned to classes after weeks of lockdown. Chinese authorities also said there were no new virus patients in Wuhan, where the outbreak began, and that all Covid-19 patients had been discharged. Here’s the latest from other parts of Asia:

• New Zealand is lifting some of its nationwide lockdown measures. It says it has ended local transmissions for now
• India has also relaxed some of its lockdown rules - over the weekend, it allowed small local stores to reopen after more than a month
• The number of cases in Singapore continues to rise as more foreign workers test positive. There are over 13,000 confirmed cases, the vast majority of whom are workers living in dormitories
• In Australia, more than a million people downloaded a coronavirus contact tracing app within hours of it being released. Restrictions are easing in some areas

Anna Holligan
BBC News Hague correspondent

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Church bells have rung out across the Netherlands to celebrate King Willem-Alexander’s 53rd birthday - the “King’s Day” or Koningsdag holiday.

Dutch flags are hoisted outside homes and the national anthem is playing sporadically from living rooms across The Hague and beyond.

But today there will be none of the traditional flea markets or street parties that accompany this popular event. Instead, the Dutch prime minister tweeted to say the best people could give the king this year was to stay at home.

Covid-19 has perhaps united the country in more ways than even King’s Day could. The Dutch have mostly been diligently observing the social distancing rules imposed to try to limit the spread of the virus.

However, last night the hashtag #endthelockdown was briefly trending - showing a degree of frustration with the partial lockdown.

But the bars that would normally be rammed and bedecked in orange today are offering only takeaways or home deliveries in honour of his royal highness.

Reality Check

In his speech at Downing Street this morning, the prime minister said, “We did not allow our NHS to collapse."

He also said the health service had not run out of ventilators or intensive care unit beds.

He is correct.

At the end of last week, there were 3,000 spare critical care beds available in the UK, according to the government.

The health service across the UK had 7,199 critical care beds at the end of last week, not including the several thousand made available in emergency field hospitals, such as the NHS Nightingale hospitals in London, Manchester and other cities.

The government has also said that every patient who needs a ventilator has received one, but has not yet met the goal of 18,000 ventilators pledged at the beginning of the month.

Are the UK's targets being met?

UK MPs have been responding to the prime minister's statement this morning.

Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood said he was “pleased to hear" that the prime minister planned to provide more detail in the coming days.

Ellwood said any exit strategy from social distancing measures would only come with a vaccine, and restrictions would "have to stay in place for many, many months".

"What we need to look at is how we can learn to live with Covid-19, whilst making sure we don't see a second spike but parts of our economy can come back to work," he said.

Opposition Labour MP Luke Pollard said he wanted to see the publication of an exit strategy.

“All of us want to see a clear path ahead – if we don’t have that clear path my fear is lockdown will start withering at the edges," Pollard said.