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Vehicle owners in the UK have been urged to "use the car before they consider public transport".

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said those who cannot walk to their destination should consider driving but avoid "any busy times of day".

Speaking at the transport select committee, Shapps said: "I appreciate that I will be the only transport secretary to have said this for very many years."

He also told MPs that 42 Transport for London (TfL) workers and 10 other railway workers have died with coronavirus.

Those figures came after it was revealed a ticket officer had died with Covid-19 after being spat at by a man who claimed he had the disease.

Earlier the UK issued new guidance for those who have to use trains, buses and trams - more on that here.

Last week, the UK announced a new £250m scheme to bolster cycling and walking infrastructure across the country.

Meanwhile, TfL, which runs most public transport in the capital, has said it expects to lose £4bn this year due to the impact of coronavirus.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders starts by asking Dr Fauci if the number of US deaths is correct, or could be as much as 50% higher.

"Most of us feel that the number of deaths are likely higher than" the official count, says Dr Fauci.

"Given the situation - particularly in New York City when they were really strapped with a very serious challenge to their healthcare system - there may have been people who died at home who had Covid but who were never diagnosed [...] because they never got to a hospital."

He adds that the idea of the disease vanishing on its own is nearly impossible because it's such a "highly transmissible virus".

"Even if we get control over the next few months it is likely there will be virus somewhere on this planet that will get back to us," Fauci warns.

He adds that it's "entirely conceivable and possible" that a second wave of the pandemic will happen.

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Two of India’s leading medical institutions and a top doctor have criticised a message being widely shared on WhatsApp groups which attributes false and misleading coronavirus health advice to them.

The message contains a long list of precautions to take to avoid getting the virus, some of which are recommended measures, such as social distancing and personal hygiene.

But it also recommends eating only vegetarian food, not wearing belts, rings or wrist watches, and not using a handkerchief - none of which give any protection from the virus.

The message says this advice is from the Indian Council for Medical Research, a top hospital in Delhi called the Sir Ganga Ram, and a well-known heart surgeon Dr Devi Shetty.

But all of them have told us the advice has nothing to do with them, and criticised those who originated it.

"It is very sad during this crisis people want to take advantage of our helplessness," Dr Shetty told the BBC.

Read more from Reality Check about dubious health cures from India and elsewhere around the world.

"There is no doubt, even under the best of circumstances, when you pull back on mitigation you will see some cases appear," says Dr Fauci, as he warns that the infection rate will climb.

"Responding to those cases with good identification, isolation and contact tracing," is necessary to stop isolated outbreaks from spreading further, he continues.

Most US states have begun plans to reopen. New York, the epicentre in the US, will allow some businesses to reopen starting on Friday.

He earlier warned of "serious consequences" if states reopen too quickly.

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US Senator Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Senate health committee, used her testimony to criticise the Trump administration for its delays in administering diagnostic tests, calling it "a disaster all on its own".

Donald Trump has said the US outpaces all other countries in terms of testing. So what's the global picture?

According to data compiled by Our World In Data, external, Denmark leads in terms of total tests per 1,000 people, followed by Italy, New Zealand, Canada and then - ranked fifth - the US.

Without controlling for population, the US is first in the globe in terms of total tests, now nearing 9 million. With the US population at around 328 million, this figure would work out as 2.74% of the population, if each person had only been tested once (which probably isn't the case).

We have just had it confirmed that the UK government will give its daily briefing at 17:00 BST (16:00 GMT).

The briefing will be led by Business Secretary Alok Sharma.

He will be joined by Sarah Albon, chief executive of the Health and Safety Executive, and Prof Stephen Powis, the medical director for NHS England.

We'll bring you all the latest developments here.

The top US infectious disease specialist, Dr Anthony Fauci, says at least eight potential vaccines are being tested - if successful, one could be available before next year.

"If we are successful, we hope to know that in the late fall [autumn] and early winter," he tells the senate committee hearing, which is titled "Covid-19: Safely Getting Back to Work and Back to School".

Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Robert Redfield says that "rapid testing" must be "widely available", before Americans can safely resume their lives as normal.

On Monday, Trump said all Americans who want a test can get one.

Brett Giroir, an assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, who is in charge of coronavirus testing, clarified that only Americans who have symptoms of Covid-19 can be tested.

But people without symptoms, who may be carriers of the coronavirus, are still not easily able to access a test.

The US Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing has begun and Republican Chairman Lamar Alexander starts by saying that "staying at home indefinitely is not a solution to this pandemic."

"There is not enough money available to help all of those by hurt, by a closed economy,” the Tennessee lawmaker says, adding “all roads back to work... lead through testing".

Democratic Sen Patty Murray, the second-ranked lawmaker on the committee, says Trump has "silenced experts for doing their job and putting public health first".

The US president was more interested in "fighting against the truth than fighting the virus," she argues, adding that the government cannot ask people to restart their lives "if there isn't clear detailed guidance on how to do that safely".

Public Health Wales (PHW) said a total of 1,132 people have died in Wales after testing positive for coronavirus, an increase of 16 on Monday's figures.

A further 105 people have tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of positive cases in Wales to 11,573.

PHW has previously said Wales seems to have "passed the peak" of cases.

To date, 49,583 tests for coronavirus have been carried out in Wales, with 30,907 tests coming back negative.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) also gives details of those registered as confirmed or suspected to have died from Covid-19 using death certificates, and its latest figure, for the week ending 9 May, puts the total at 1,641 in Wales.

Of the 23,709 confirmed reported deaths so far in hospitals in England of people who tested positive for Covid-19, 12,451 (53%) have been people aged 80 and over while 9,184 (39%) were 60-79, NHS England said.

So 91% of all hospital Covid-19 deaths have been people aged 60 or over.

A further 1,890 (8%) were aged 40-59, with 172 (1%) aged 20-39 and 12 (0.05%) aged 0-19.

The number of deaths announced so far by University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust stands at 826 - the highest for any trust in England (though note that NHS trusts serve different-sized catchment populations).

Barts Health NHS Trust has announced 570 deaths and London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust has announced 555 deaths.

Four trusts have announced between 400 and 500 deaths: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (466), the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (459), the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust (428) and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (402).

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Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is about to testify before the US Senate.

“Dr Fauci is a truth-teller," said top Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer earlier today on CNN. "That’s his reputation."

“This will be one of the first opportunities for Dr Fauci to tell the American people the unvarnished truth without the president looking over his shoulder,” the New York senator said yesterday.

Over his five decades as a medical researcher, Fauci, 79, has seen his effigy burnt, heard the cries of protesters calling him a "murderer", and had smoke bombs thrown outside his office window.

As head of immunology at the National Institutes of Health during the 1980s HIV/Aids epidemic, Dr Fauci, 79, has seen conflict before.

Read more about Dr Fauci here:

The face of America's coronavirus response

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England and Tottenham footballer Danny Rose has criticised the Premier League's plans to restart the season amid the coronavirus pandemic.

"Football shouldn't even be spoken about until the numbers [of people dying] have dropped massively," said Rose.

In other developments:

• Athletics: The Anniversary Games in London in July have been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.
• Cricket: The qualifying tournament for next year's Women's World Cup, due to take place in Sri Lanka in July, has been postponed.
• With little sporting action, the lockdown commentaries of BBC Sport's Andrew Cotter on the antics of his dogs Olive and Mabel have proved a viral hit. Now he has turned his attention to penguin racing...

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Most matters relating to Covid-19 and the lockdown in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are decided by their respective devolved administrations.

And as we've been hearing, Northern Ireland set out its plan for easing the lockdown a little earlier.

It comes two days after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his own “conditional plan” - which only applies in England.

So how do they differ?

Unlike in England - and the Republic of Ireland - Northern Ireland's plan gives no predictions on dates for when each measure will be lifted.

Its initial moves include allowing up to six people who do not share a household to meet up outdoors while maintaining social distancing.

And they're not the only differences.

BBC Northern Ireland has been taking an in-depth look at how lockdown rules differ in Northern Ireland compared to England.

Another 350 people who tested positive for Covid-19 have died in hospitals in England.

The total number of confirmed coronavirus deaths has risen to 23,709, NHS England said.

Of the 350 deaths announced today, 44 occurred on 11 May, 90 occurred on 10 May and 44 occurred on 9 May.

The figures also show 92 of the newly announced deaths took place between 1 May and 8 May, 76 took place in April, while the remaining four deaths occurred in March, with the earliest occuring on17 March.

NHS England releases updated figures each day showing the dates of every coronavirus-related death in hospitals in England, often including previously uncounted deaths that took place several days or even weeks ago.

This is because of the time it takes for deaths to be confirmed as testing positive for Covid-19, for post-mortem examinations to be processed and for data from the tests to be validated.

There have been a further nine deaths of patients who tested positive for Covid-19 in Northern Ireland, bringing fatalities to 447.

The latest UK-wide figures are expected later.

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Some countries suffering serious epidemics of the coronavirus did not take initial warnings from the World Health Organization seriously enough, the agency says.

Following allegations from the US that it has handled the pandemic badly, the WHO has reminded countries that in mid-January it warned all member states of the virus and by the end of that month had declared an international health emergency.

Throughout February, it says, it called on governments to begin rigorous testing and quarantining.

Asked about the very large outbreaks in the US and Brazil, a WHO spokeswoman said those warnings had not been seen as serious, reports Imogen Foulkes for BBC News in Geneva.

One reason, the spokeswoman said, was that many countries in the Americas and Europe had no memory of the damage a new infectious disease can do.

In Africa, which does have recent experience, she said countries knew that early intervention was effective and this could be why cases there were not rising so fast.

Sarah Cooper is a New York-based comedian, whose lip-sync videos of President Donald Trump's statements about the pandemic have been viewed millions of times.

Her videos on TikTok and Twitter have also gone viral, and been shared by celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres.

She spoke to the BBC about what it's like working as a comedian under lockdown.

Marianna Spring
Specialist disinformation and social media reporter

A viral video claiming an elderly woman with coronavirus was put in a body bag while still alive has been exposed as heavily misleading.

The video originated in Brazil and went viral on WhatsApp and Facebook. Various versions have been shared hundreds of thousands of times, including on large English-language conspiracy groups.

The video shows an elderly patient on top of plastic sheeting struggling to breathe. The caption claims the woman’s family was told she was dead.

The truth is less dramatic. The Abelardo Santos Hospital in northern Brazil said in a statement the woman was a Covid-19 patient who was being transferred to a different bed. The plastic sheeting was a protective covering for the bed - not a “body bag” as conspiracy theorists claim.

Since the footage was shot, the woman has sadly died.

Some of the Portuguese posts on Facebook feature a warning message that they are misleading; however, we’ve spotted some in English which have yet to be flagged by Facebook.

Have you seen anything misleading? Email me: marianna.spring@bbc.co.uk

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A key figure in the US response to the coronavirus pandemic, Dr Anthony Fauci, is expected to warn the US Senate that reopening the economy too soon could result in "needless suffering and death".

The infectious disease expert will say that skipping over government guidelines on reopening could set back the recovery effort.

In an email to the New York Times, Fauci set out the arguments he intends to make at Tuesday's Senate committee hearing shortly.

"If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to Open America Again [the White House plan], then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks," he told the newspaper.

The US alone has more than 1.3 million confirmed cases according to the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus tracker - almost six times as many as any other country. More than 80,000 people have died from the virus in the US.

Read more here.

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Germany has seen a rise in its reproduction rate, or the rate of virus spread, after easing its lockdown - raising fears that infections could jump again as countries end their restrictions.

Denmark was one of the first European nations to adopt lockdown measures, and one of the first to end them. Primary school pupils returned to class on 15 April, and hairdressers reopened just days later.

Shopping malls opened on Monday - cafes and restaurants will follow on the 18th - and the country has laid out new measures to track and trace infections.

Chief epidemiologist Kare Molbak told reporters that even with all the restrictions ending, infection rates remain low, and he didn't think a second wave would hit.

"No country has seen an actual second wave yet. Some countries have seen the spread go up and down," he said. "But with the knowledge we have today, I find it very unlikely that we'll see a second wave," he said.

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Let's bring you more now on Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who has tested positive for coronavirus.

"Yes, I got sick. I'm being treated," he was quoted as saying by Russia's Interfax news agency.

Peskov, 52, didn't provide any details about how serious his condition was.

It was not immediately clear when Peskov was last in close proximity with President Putin, who has been in self-isolation since April at his residence near Moscow.

That precautionary measure was taken after he visited a Moscow hospital treating Covid-19 patients and met the chief doctor, who shortly afterwards tested positive for the disease.

However, Putin did break his self-isolation for a day on 9 May to celebrate Victory Day in Moscow.

In late April, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin went to hospital after he was diagnosed with coronavirus.