The death toll from the virus in the UK rises to more than 26,000 after care home deaths are included for first time
1.5bn workers at risk of having livelihood destroyed, especially in informal economy - UN
Germany and the US both report sharp economic contractions
The US has confirmed one million virus cases, making up almost a third of the total global tally
With more than 58,000 deaths, more Americans have died with Covid-19 than died in the Vietnam War
Half a million face masks handed out at stations in Paris
China's parliament will meet again next month, a sign officials believe the virus is under control there
The coronavirus crisis has dramatically changed how hospices in the UK operate.
The BBC's Ed Thomas finds out the impact on staff, patients and families at East Cheshire Hospice:
Coronavirus: The hospice staff working through a pandemic
Image source, AFPEach MP got about $2,600 for coronavirus awareness campaigns
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has blasted members of parliament for allocating themselves a total of 10bn Ugandan shillings ($2.6m; £2m) to raise awareness on coronavirus.
The president said it was "morally reprehensible" for the MPs to allocate themselves the money, instead of funding district committees created for that purpose.
President Museveni said he would write to the Auditor General to investigate MPs who had already spent the money to buy relief items for their constituents.
Uganda has so far confirmed 79 cases of coronavirus. The country is on a lockdown that ends on 5 May.
Across the world, places are starting to ease lockdown restrictions, including the US state of Georgia, where barber shops, tattoo parlours, beaches and restaurants have reopened.
BBC Newsnight reporter David Grossman travelled across the state to see what life looks like as it emerges from economic hibernation:
Coronavirus: This is what reopening in US looks like
Image source, AFPMalawi's government has been blocked from enforcing a total lockdown, but restrictions are in place
Malawi's President Peter Mutharika has announced an emergency cash transfer for the people worst affected by Covid-19.
Eligible households will receive a monthly payment of 35,000 Malawian Kwacha ($47; £38) starting in May.
The announcement came after the High Court in Malawi extended an order preventing the government from implementing a three-week total lockdown.
Human rights groups had complained there was no safety net for the poorest people whose livelihoods would be affected.
Malawi has recorded 36 cases of coronavirus, including three deaths.
It's the same sight across major cities right now. Streets once bustling with people and traffic now left empty, save for the occasional person passing by.
Image source, Getty ImagesThis pedestrian crossing in the once-packed Tokyo region of Shinjuku is now deserted
Image source, Getty ImagesGinza, one of Japan's popular shopping districts, is similarly empty
Image source, Getty ImagesOn the other side of the Pacific, the US city of Los Angeles is deserted
Image source, Getty ImagesThe Turkish capital of Ankara, once a buzzing hub, has also fallen silent
Image source, Press AssociationAn asteroid is expected to have a near-miss - relatively speaking - with Earth later on Wednesday.
Known as 1998 OR2, it will pass within about 3.9 million miles (6.3 million km). This is about 16 times further than the distance from our planet to the Moon.
The space rock, which is about 1.5 miles-wide, poses no danger, scientists say.
Some observers think it's an appropriate "visitor" for 2020 - joking that it looks like a "masked asteroid" because of debris and dust around it.
Germany has recorded another 202 Covid-19 deaths, according to official figures, and another 1,304 cases.
The country now has more than 157,000 cases and 6,115 deaths - far fewer than most of its major European neighbours.
Shaili Bhat
BBC Gujarati
Abdul Malabari has been an undertaker for 30 years
For three decades, Abdul Malabari has been an undertaker for unclaimed bodies. But he never thought he would have to bury people whose families wanted to say goodbye but couldn't because of Covid-19.
"My work has no fixed timings," says the 51-year-old undertaker. "As soon as we get a call, we proceed with the kit."
Every time someone dies of coronavirus in Surat - in India's western state of Gujarat - officials call Malabari. So far the city has recorded 19 deaths, and 244 cases. There are 3,548 in Gujarat.
It is not the first time Malabari has gone above and beyond for people he does not know.
It was his compassion for a stranger three decades ago - when a different disease was snaking its way through the population - which led to his work today.
The US's Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds flew over the New York and Philadelphia area to salute the medical teams fighting coronavirus.
To adhere to social distancing guidelines, residents were told to watch the spectacle from their homes - as can you:
Coronavirus: Flyover honours frontline medical workers
Brazil has now recorded more than 5,000 coronavirus-related deaths, surpassing China.
The health ministry in Brasília reported 474 deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the overall number to 5,017.
Brazil is the worst-hit country in Latin America, with nearly 72,000 confirmed infections.
In China, where the coronavirus outbreak started late last year, 4,633 people have died.
Coronavirus: Latin America's biggest graveyard
Earlier this month Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro came under criticism for joining protesters demanding that restrictions on movement introduced to stop the spread of coronavirus be lifted.
Mr Bolsonaro has in the past dismissed coronavirus as "little more than a flu".
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has criticised a local burger chain which failed to keep people apart, as the country eased its lockdown.
She said officials had been in contact with Burger Fuel - after pictures on social media showed dozens of people standing closely to each other at one of its outlets.
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New Zealand yesterday moved into alert level three, allowing restaurants to provide takeaway services and some non-essential businesses to open.
Many rushed out to get the coffees and takeaway food that they had missed.
But yesterday alone, there were 104 breaches of the level three alert, say local media reports.
Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield warned that non-compliant premises could still be closed.
There were two new virus cases reported today, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 1,126.
Hello to those waking up in India. Here's the latest news:
Image source, EPAChina's National People's Congress (NPC) will hold its annual session on 22 May, after postponing the meeting due to the coronavirus outbreak.
State media are quoting the parliament's top decision-making body as saying that conditions have improved to such an extent that the event can now take place.
The NPC was initially due to gather on 5 March. It's the first time since the Cultural Revolution in 1966-76 that the legislature's meeting has been delayed.
Image source, ReutersChina's National People's Congress holds its session in March 2019
Around 3,000 delegates normally attend the gathering in the capital Beijing, but it is not clear whether the format will be changed this year.
The NPC is seen in the West as a rubber-stamp body where key decisions are agreed by the China's Communist Party even before a meeting takes place.
The Isle of Mull in the west of Scotland has been in lockdown and closed to visitors for several weeks, and non-residents have been warned not to travel to the Highlands and Islands.
But despite being heavily reliant on tourism, this close-knit community believes that they can come out of the crisis stronger.
Filmmakers Daisy Walsh and Tom Martienssen have been self- isolating on Mull, and have sent us this report:
An island in lockdown: 'We'll come back stronger'
Image source, Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump has ordered meat processing plants to stay open to protect the nation's food supply amid the coronavirus pandemic.
He invoked a Korean War-era law to mandate that the plants continue to function, amid industry warnings of strain on the supply chain.
An estimated 3,300 US meatpacking workers have been diagnosed with coronavirus and 20 have died.
Read more here.
More than 20 million Americans have lost their jobs in the past few weeks - and for many that also means losing health insurance.
Half of Americans rely on health insurance tied to their jobs. We talked to Susan Kent, who became unemployed when the theatre she worked at closed because of coronavirus, leaving her uninsured.
Coronavirus: One thing that makes job loss in US so painful
The US governor of Kentucky has apologised to a resident named Tupac Shakur for assuming he recently applied for unemployment benefits under that name as a prank.
"We had somebody apply for unemployment for Tupac Shakur. [They] may have thought they were being funny," said Andy Beshear at a press briefing.
But the man, who shares his name with the best-selling American rapper who died in 1996, is actually named Tupac Malik Shakur.
"I'm really embarrassed. That's just my name," Shakur told local paper the Lexington Herald-Leader, external. He said he had applied for unemployment on 13 March, as the virus forced millions of Americans out of work.
"I've been struggling for like the last month to figure out how to pay the bills," said Shakur.
Image source, Getty ImagesNot this Tupac
Vietnam reported no new cases of the disease on Wednesday morning, going 13 straight days with no community transmissions, authorities said.
With 270 total cases and no deaths in a population of 95 million people, Vietnam's ratio of infections per million is among the lowest in the world, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on Tuesday.
He said Vietnam was successfully pushing back the virus, but asked people to remain vigilant.
Vietnam has not carried out mass testing at the level of South Korea or Germany. But it responded early to the outbreak in neighbouring China stopping flights and eventually closing the border.
The one-party communist state also enforced mass quarantines on entire districts to stop the spread.
Last week the country started easing lockdown restrictions.
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Image source, AFP/Getty ImagesChile and Bolivia have reached a deal to allow the return of about 400 Bolivian migrants stranded in a makeshift camp in Chile's capital Santiago because of the virus.
The Bolivians will be transported to the northern Chilean city of Iquique, to the west of the Atacama desert, where they will remain in quarantine for 14 days before being allowed to go home.
Bolivia has closed its borders to try to halt the spread of the virus.
The Chilean authorities have expressed concern about the growing number of Bolivians sleeping in tents in and around Santiago, after losing their jobs because of the pandemic.
Thousands of Bolivians live and work in Chile, one of the wealthiest countries in South America.
As much of Asia starts its day, here's a quick look at what's happening in the region: