Rhoda Odhiambo
BBC Africa Health, Nairobi

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The majority of health workers in Kenya have been forced to reuse personal protective equipment (PPE), according to a study by Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network (Kelin).

Most of the health workers interviewed in the study said there is a lack of regular supply from government.

Only 17.8% said they were regularly supplied with protective equipment.

More than half of those interviewed said they had received training on how to prepare and handle a confirmed case.

The World Health Organization’s Emergency Operations Programme Manager Dr Michel Yao told the BBC that governments need to offer refresher programmes to health workers regularly so that they are better equipped to take care of patients as well as protect themselves.

"The most important thing is rehearsal. If you don’t practise you can make a mistake and expose yourself as well as your families," Dr Yao said.

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Coronavirus patients from black African backgrounds in England and Wales are dying at more than triple the rate of white Britons, a study suggests.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said a higher proportion of people from ethnic minority backgrounds live in areas hit harder by Covid-19.

However, they tend to be younger on average, so should be less vulnerable.

It comes after BBC News analysis of 135 healthcare workers whose deaths have been publicly announced found 84 were from ethnic minority backgrounds.

• Remembering 100 NHS and healthcare workers who have died
• Read more on the IFS study here.

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Spain's coronavirus death toll rose to 24,824 on Friday as 281 more people died from causes related to the disease. The previous day's death toll was 268.

The country's health ministry added that the number of new Covid-19 cases rose to a total of 215,216 from 213,435 the day before.

Spain, one of the worst affected countries, recently announced a four-phase plan to lift its stringent lockdown measures and return to a "new normality" by the end of June.

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The first professional tennis tournament of the Covid-19 era is set to begin on Friday in Germany.

The four-day Tennis Point series, in Koblenz, will be played without fans, line judges, ball girls and boys or handshakes, although it will be televised live.

Players will sit at opposite sides of the net during changeovers, and there will be no handshakes at the end of the match.

"We wanted to bring the joy of tennis back to peoples’ lives," said tournament director Ruben Herrera.

The men's ATP and women's WTA tours remain suspended.

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In a sign of the challenge post-lockdown life will pose for many countries, the head of the UK's biggest airport - Heathrow - has warned that introducing social distancing at airports is "physically impossible".

Chief executive John Holland-Kaye said a "better solution" is needed to make air travel safe as he called for the UK to lead the way in developing a common international standard of measures which could include temperature checks for all passengers.

He said: "Social distancing does not work in any form of public transport let alone aviation.

"The constraint is not about how many people you can fit on a plane, it will be how many people you can get through an airport safely."

Social distancing on planes would reduce capacities by more than 50% and mean "prices would shoot up", Mr Holland-Kaye predicted.EasyJet has suggested it could leave the middle seats on its planes empty when flights resume.

The number of passengers travelling through Heathrow last month was down by around 97% compared with April 2019.

The airport insisted its financial position is "robust", with £3.2 billion in liquidity, which is "sufficient to maintain the business at least over the next 12 months, even with no passengers"

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The first train carrying migrant workers stranded by a nationwide lockdown in India has left the southern state of Telangana.

Some 1,200 workers are on the non-stop train to Jharkhand state in the east. Each carriage is carrying 54 passengers instead of the usual 72 to maintain social distancing, officials say.

Earlier this week, the government said it would arrange for people to return to their home states, where they would be quarantined.

Before the first train left, all the passengers were screened for fever and other symptoms.

India's sudden announcement of a lockdown on 25 March left millions of poor workers stranded in cities after the government stopped all trains and buses. Hundreds of thousands of them began walking, desperate to get home, and several died on the way.

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Dozens of street performers and children’s entertainers protested on the streets of Mexico City on Thursday, demanding financial support from the government while they were out of work.

“Clowns need support” was one of the chants.

Many such entertainers work informally, relying on donations from passers-by or party bookings, which, they say, have dried up during the pandemic.

Mexicans have been told only to leave their homes for essential things.

Many entertainers donned their full costume for the protest:

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The spread of coronavirus around the world has meant a lot of changes, especially when it comes to employment and money.

Thousands of you have been asking us questions about your financial situation during this time, so from 12:00 BST (11:00 GMT) today, our experts will be ready to answer some of those questions via a live video stream.

If you have any questions about your money in the UK during this pandemic, you can contact us using the form in this page.

Spain's government says the country's economy will shrink significantly this year.

It will contract by 9.2% in 2020, although it is expected to rebound by 6.8% next year, Economy Minister Nadia Calvino has said.

The announcement follows news the eurozone economy shrank at the sharpest pace on record in the first quarter.

A first estimate of GDP between January and March showed a contraction of 3.8%, which is worse than during the financial crisis of 2008.

Rory Cellan-Jones
Technology correspondent

In the UK, Google says it is seeing a clear increase in activity despite the fact that the country's lockdown measures have not been relaxed.

The latest Google mobility report - which refers to last weekend - shows a marked increase in activity across the country.

It said visits to parks were only 10% below normal, while they were around 50% lower at the beginning of the lockdown.

You can see the full report here., external

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For much of Europe, 1 May is normally a public holiday highlighting the rights of workers - but this is not a normal May Day.

In France, it is usually a day of union marches when people buy lily of the valley from the local florists. But florists are shut, and instead people will bang on pots and pans on balconies, as they do every evening, and there will be online protests.

A three-hour livestreamed protest is planned in Germany, although some mini-demos are planned in Berlin. One party leader, Christian Lindner, says it should be a day for jobs rather than Labour Day, as more than 10 million workers have signed up to a German state salary scheme.

Portugal's main union federation will hold events in 24 towns, but only union officials will attend. Protesters in Greece have maintained social distancing with a rally outside parliament in Athens, defying the government's plea for the day to be postponed until 9 May.

In Austria, 1 May is the day for all shops, hairdressers and beauty salons to reopen, but most are likely to stay closed for the day.

May Day in Finland is normally a big deal, with communal picnics and rallies. Now it's all moved online with a broad array of political speeches going out instead on social media.

Italian President Sergio Mattarrella has given a May Day address. "There can be no Republic without work... Because work is a condition of freedom, dignity and autonomy for people."

Jonathan Marcus
BBC Diplomatic and defence correspondent

US President Donald Trump’s offensive against China - read more about that here - is largely about domestic politics and his re-election campaign. But it threatens to accentuate a developing Cold War mindset towards Beijing which may well come to dominate diplomacy in the months and years ahead.

Certainly, there is much to criticise in China’s handling of the initial stages of the Covid-19 outbreak. And it has shamelessly sought to make political capital from the crisis. Even Mr Trump’s Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, is doubling down on Beijing.

But many analysts ask whether this is the right moment to have this fight.

China’s rise has not gone as many in the West hoped. In its own region, it is a military superpower - increasingly a match for the mighty US. Its technological capabilities in strategic areas like 5G and artificial intelligence are impressive.

And its wider influence - fostered through a single-minded effort to develop trade ties, financial relationships and so on - mean that China is a force to be reckoned with, increasingly able to influence the international rules of the game.

Countering Beijing’s rising role will be the next US president’s central foreign policy challenge, while also trying to find ways to work with China on issues like climate change.

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Our lives have already been reshaped by coronavirus, but what about in the months and years ahead?

Twelve BBC correspondents look at different aspects of how our lives might be affected, including: changes to the way we work and learn; our shopping habits and the impact on retail; the possible rise in plane ticket prices; and how the arts and sport might be affected.

Read more in our Explainers article.

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Denmark, which became the first European country to begin easing its lockdown measures earlier this month, says there has been an uptick in infections but the overall number of Covid-19 infections has continued to fall.

The country has allowed young children to return to school, and hairdressers and other small businesses to reopen.

While its infectious disease agency said the reproduction rate - the number of people to which one infected person will pass the virus - had increased slightly, it was still below one.

"There are no signs that the Covid-19 epidemic is accelerating," the agency said in a statement.

Denmark has received some praise for its swift action in restricting movement before Covid-19 infections were able to spread across the population.

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Singapore has recorded another 932 new infections for the past day, bringing the country's total to more than 17,000. The city-state of fewer than six million people has by far the highest number of cases in all of South-east Asia.

The vast majority of new cases have for weeks been among foreign workers, who mostly work in construction and are housed in large dormitory complexes - which now are under quarantine. New infections among locals are often in the single-digit range.

Critics say authorities have underestimated the risk for the workers and failed to protect them from the outbreak, while the government insists it is now doing all it can to provide free treatment and additional housing for them.

• WATCH: Singapore's migrant workers 'living in fear'

Helier Cheung
BBC News, Washington DC

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There's a lot of bleak news in the world right now. From the outbreak to massive unemployment to vulnerable people being separated from their loved ones, it can be easy to feel helpless.

But for those of us who are lucky enough to be healthy, and have time and resources available, there are also lots of practical ways we can help healthcare workers, our communities and people we care about.

From making donations to writing a diary to donating blood to reading a story online to your friends' children, here are some simple, and sometimes surprising, things you can do.

Read more from Helier here.

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Earlier we reported that the number of people confirmed to have recovered from the virus had passed one million, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US.

Below are the countries which according to Johns Hopkins, external have recorded the highest number of people recovering.

The US has had the most recoveries from Covid-19 - but has also had the largest number of cases.

• US 153,947 (from a total of 1,070,026 cases)
• Germany 123,500 (163,009 cases)
• Spain 112,050 (213,435 cases)
• China 78,523 (83,956 cases)
• Italy 75,945 (205,463 cases)

But these figures come with caveats attached.

Firstly, they probably underestimate the true number of people who have recovered because many infections are mild and go unrecorded. The extent of testing also varies widely between countries.

Different countries may also record data about who has recovered in different ways.

With that said, Johns Hopkins says there has been a total of 1,014,931 recoveries from Covid-19 worldwide.

The UK is shown to have recorded only 859 recoveries from 172,481 confirmed cases of the virus.

However, that is likely to be a significant underestimate of the true figure. On Thursday, there were 15,043 people in hospital with coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.

Recovery from the virus can also take a long time, as our health correspondent, James Gallagher, reports here.

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While the French and Dutch leagues have prematurely brought an end to their seasons, their English, Italian, Spanish and German counterparts have yet to come to a decision.

English Premier League clubs remain committed to playing this season's 92 remaining fixtures, behind closed doors. The English Football League - which oversees the three tiers below - is waiting for government guidance. Premier League officials will join a video conference on Friday, which will include Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, to discuss the medical and safety aspects of a return.

Italy's Serie A wants to complete its fixtures, but Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora said on Wednesday it was "unlikely".

Spain's government appears more optimistic. On Thursday, it approved La Liga’s plans for clubs to test their players for Covid-19 before they return to training as the country's top flight targets a June resumption.

Germany's Bundesliga will need to wait another week to find out about a possible restart after the government on Thursday delayed any decision over a league resumption.

Lyse Doucet
Chief International Correspondent

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An international charity has warned that more than seven million children are at risk of hunger in Afghanistan as food prices soar during the coronavirus crisis.

Save the Children describes Afghanistan as one of the most dangerous places to be a child – where children have only known war, and now, for many, growing hardship and hunger.

The charity says food prices have soared since the virus struck. Staples like wheat flour and cooking oil now cost up to 23% more.

That’s because the lockdown has sporadically closed borders and disrupted supply chains.

In the capital, Kabul, where most shops are shut, thousands of children who are their families’ main earners still beg on the streets. For working children and day labourers, no money means no food.

Aid agencies are now calling for urgent international help for a country where they say the greatest impact of this pandemic will not be the virus, but hunger.

There have been lots of fundraising challenges and marathons happening across the UK, but Ellis Morey's 26-mile challenge has one key difference - it takes place on tracks. Tiny ones.

Mr Morey is going to do 77 laps - or 26 miles (41km) - around his favourite miniature railway on an old hand crank.

His challenge is to raise awareness and funds for heritage steam railways as some fear closure due to the financial impact of the coronavirus crisis.

The 25-year-old's "uncomfortable yet unique" challenge will take nine hours. "It's just my way of giving back," he said.

Watch how he's doing it here: