Iain Carter
BBC golf correspondent

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Golf is one of sport's more traditional pursuits, but as courses in England ready themselves for resumption it will return a somewhat different game - albeit perhaps better co-ordinated and with potential to grow in popularity.

Governing bodies worked closely to formulate protocols to make golf safe amid coronavirus restrictions, and insiders welcome the government's relaxation of measures, especially after one of the wettest winters on record caused widespread course closures.

The new guidelines include:

• No friendly fourballs - You can play on your own, with one other person or within your family group
• Don't touch the flag - Golfers will be allowed to putt with the flag still in the hole.
• Smooth sand with your feet - Rakes located to smooth footprints in bunkers will be removed from courses.
• A break from tradition - ball washers, usually located next to teeing grounds, are to be taken out of use. And - traditionalists look away - changing in the car park is OK.

Rob England
BBC News

Greater support for UK nurses during the coronavirus outbreak has been a "boost" to staff in trying times, a nursing union has said.

Mike Adams, director of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) for England, said: "The clap every Thursday night has been a real boost to people working in really tough conditions at the moment.

"The public support throughout this pandemic has been absolutely fantastic to the nursing profession, but also the wider healthcare professionals and social care workers."

Later today, to celebrate International Nurses Day and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, the famous nurse's image and a message of thanks will be projected from Parliament onto her place of work, London's St Thomas's Hospital.

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But Mr Adams added: "There are still concerns about PPE, about access to equipment across all our settings. So not just in hospitals, but in care homes, in hospices, in community district nurse settings, in mental health teams."

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London's public transport network expects to lose £4bn ($4.9bn) this year due to the impact of coronavirus.

During the UK lockdown, where people have been advised to stay at home, Transport for London (TfL) says it's lost 90% of its overall income.

Most TfL services are still running, but there's been a 95% fall in people using the Tube compared to this time last year, and the number of bus passengers has dropped by 85%.

The organisation's finance committee is set to hold an emergency meeting.

Wolverhampton Wanderers have become the first English Premier League club to install a drive-through Covid-19 testing station at their training ground for players and staff.

It is understood Wolves players are yet to use the procedure. Backroom staff have been tested in a process the Premier League hopes will become the template for other clubs across the English top-flight.

The testing takes place in the car park of the training ground and takes less than a minute.

The Premier League is hoping to restart the football season on 12 June. Some clubs have allowed players to train individually, although they are not yet allowed to take part in group sessions.

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Alice Evans
BBC News

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Lockdown guidance on exercising for people in England will loosen from tomorrow. But Colin Johnstone is among those runners who have not allowed their strict exercise regimes to slip, even if it means going out in the middle of the night.

At 02:00, Colin's phone alarm clock rings out to mark the start of his day.

The 46-year-old warehouse worker slips into a pair of shorts, a vest, and a bright orange beanie, and grabs his head torch from the dining room table.

He wolfs down a slice of toast and a bowl of porridge, before sharing a Snickers bar with his twin Keith, whom he lives with. The brothers pull on their trainers - and then run a marathon on the quiet, locked-down, streets of south Leeds.

Read the full story here.

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Russia now has the second-highest number of confirmed coronavirus infections worldwide after the United States.

On Tuesday, it reported another 10,899 infections in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to more than 232,000.

The capital, Moscow, is the worst-affected area and has reported more than 5,000 new cases in 24 hours.

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Senegal is easing coronavirus restrictions starting on Tuesday, including the reopening of markets and businesses.

Mosques are now allowed to reopen for prayers during the holy month of Ramadan, and churches can also welcome worshippers.

The night-time curfew has been reduced by two hours, and will now run from 21:00 to 05:00 local time.

In a televised address late on Monday, President Macky Sall said that Senegalese people would need to "adapt individual and collective behaviour" and "learn to live with the virus".

The announcement came as the country recorded 177 new cases on Monday, the highest jump in a single day since the first case was recorded on 2 March.

Senegal has so far recorded 1,886 coronavirus cases in total, including 19 deaths.

• Live tracker: Coronavirus in Africa

The Eurovision Song Contest was cancelled for the first time in its 64-year history because of coronavirus. It was due to be held this week in the Dutch city of Rotterdam.

To pay tribute, BBC Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg has joined The Fizz members Cheryl Baker, Mike Nolan and Jay Aston, for a rendition of the 1981 Eurovision winning song Making Your Mind Up.

The Fizz is made up of three of the four original members of the group Buck's Fizz.

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While those who can avoid taking public transport should do so, the Department for Transport has issued guidance for those who have to use trains, buses and trams.

It recommends:

• Keep 2m apart from others wherever possible
• Wear a face covering if you can
• Use contactless payment where possible
• Avoid rush hour travel where feasible
• Wash or sanitise your hands as soon as possible before and after travel
• Follow advice from staff and be considerate to others

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, who announced £250m in emergency spending to upgrade cycle and walking networks in England on Saturday, said: “If we take these steps, all those who need to use public transport should feel confident that they can do so safely, with the space to maintain social distancing as far as possible.”

However, there were reports of a noticeable increase in passengers on the London Underground on Monday after the prime minister's return to work message on Sunday.

BBC London transport correspondent Tom Edwards said the number of journeys had increased by about 5% compared to the week before, and pictures emerged of busy platforms at some stations.

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The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the virus first emerged, is drawing up plans to test its entire population of 11 million people for Covid-19.

The plan appears to be in its early stages, but all districts of the city have been told to submit details of how testing could be done within 10 days.

It comes after six new cases were recorded over the weekend. Prior to this, the city had seen no new cases at all since 3 April.

Wuhan, which was in strict lockdown for 11 weeks, began re-opening on 8 April.

But the emergence of a cluster of cases - all from the same residential compound - has now threatened the move back to normalcy.

Read more here.

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Too much time on your hands and done with baking bread and cakes...? How about picking up Japanese anime?

One of the people behind Japan's legendary Studio Ghibli is offering a quick online tutorial showing how to draw one of their most famous characters - the cute and cuddly forest creature Totoro.

The mix between a cat, an owl and a raccoon is the star of My Neighbour Totoro, which has become a worldwide classic since its 1988 release.

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If you're just joining us, here's a rundown of developments from around the world:

• The Chinese city of Wuhan is drawing up plans to test its entire population of 11 million people for Covid-19, state media report
• In South Korea, some 101 people have now tested positive for the virus after a cluster outbreak linked to a nightclub district in the capital, Seoul. The new spike comes after the government began relaxing social-distancing rules
• A fire at a hospital in St Petersburg, Russia has killed five coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit. The blaze was apparently started by a short circuit in a ventilator
• All mosques in Iran are due to reopen temporarily on Tuesday, as part of the government's plan to ease coronavirus restrictions. They will be open for three days to commemorate specific nights during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan
• Meanwhile, many countries in Europe are continuing to lift lockdown restrictions; we have the details here
• The UK government has published further guidance on reopening workplaces, public transport and schools

The number of deaths linked to coronavirus in care homes in England and Wales has fallen, figures show.

The Office for National Statistics analysis showed there were 2,423 fatalities where the virus was mentioned on the death certificate in the week ending 1 May - down from nearly 2,800 the week before.

More than 8,300 deaths in care homes have been linked to virus since the epidemic started.

The number of hospital deaths has been falling since the second week of April.

Read more here.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock answered a series of questions from BBC Breakfast viewers earlier.

His answers included UK guidance on meeting family members and the use of childminders.

Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary has described quarantine rules as "idiotic" as he announced plans to restart flights from July.

The budget airline boss told BBC Breakfast the firm would look to sell all of the seats on its flights, but would put in place temperature checks and face masks for passengers and crews.

He said: "The business only functions if we can sell most of the seats on most of the flights.

"We accept in July and August the load factors will be lower than that, but we don't need social distancing. In fact the government has already recommended where social distancing isn't possible, wear face masks - that is the effective measure against the spread of Covid-19, not ineffective measures like a 14-day quarantine which no one will observe anyway."

The government is introducing the 14-day quarantine as Covid-19 has a one to 14-day incubation period, during which it can be transmitted even without symptoms.

Mr O'Leary disputed that the quarantine was science-based, due to French and Irish travellers being exempt.

Ryanair has announced today that it plans to restart 40% of its flights, almost 1,000 a day, from 1 July, subject to restrictions being lifted in the EU.

Ed Habershon
BBC News

I’ve spent the last week in Spain, where almost everyone wears masks. So what’s it like?

Awkward at first. They’re uncomfortable for obvious reasons – they make it hard to breathe, they’re itchy, and they can give you a blocked nose and dry mouth.

I sometimes wear glasses, and they can steam them up too. Putting them on and taking them off is important. You’re encouraged to do it carefully in case you’ve picked anything up from your hands.

Reading people’s faces - which is such an important part of communication - is very hard too. It’s sometimes hard to hear people, and you find yourself raising your voice to be heard. As a journalist, that makes interviews hard, especially in a second language.

But it’s surprising how quickly you get used to it. You almost forget you’re wearing one, and, although it’s initially confronting seeing those around you wear them, you get used to that quickly too.

In the Finnish resort of Levi, 150kms (93 miles) north of the Arctic Circle, the ski season would usually be happening now. This year though, they had to close in March because of Covid-19, despite having the best snowfall in living memory.

Rather than let all the good snow go to waste, locals have taken action to save it for next season. The resort is using special fabric to wrap up the white stuff - here's how they're keeping it intact:

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A hospital fire kills Covid-19 patients in Russia and French schoolchildren return to class. Here’s the latest from Europe:

• Five patients in a St Petersburg hospital have died after a fire tore through an intensive care unit. Local media report that a ventilator short-circuited, starting the blaze. You can read more about the developing story here
• After a 56-day break, a small number of France’s schoolchildren return to class. Teachers prepared classrooms for social distancing measures on Monday. About a million pupils will go back in the next week
• France’s flagship, the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, saw an outbreak of the virus in April. The country’s armed forces minister has blamed “errors in the measures taken to fight the coronavirus” for the spread on board, with officers overestimating their ability to contain it. All but one of the more than 1,000 infected sailors has since recovered
• And all overseas travellers arriving in Spain will have to undergo a 14-day quarantine, starting on 15 May. They will only be allowed out for medical reasons or for groceries, and will have to wear masks when doing so

Former governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, has said the chancellor should not reduce the coronavirus furlough scheme until the economy has recovered further.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is to reveal the future of the government's job retention scheme later. Currently more than six million people are having up to 80% of their wages paid by the government while they are temporarily on leave from their jobs.

Lord King cautioned against reducing payments to 60% rather than 80%.

"I don't think it makes sense to regard this as the major cost of the Covid-19 crisis in economic terms," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

He said the payments would lead to a rise in national debt but said "we can finance that over a long period".

Lord King said: "The real cost of this shutdown is not measured by the impact on the public finances but by the lost incomes and outputs in the economy - a cost which is likely to end up as an order of magnitude (though no one can really know this) of several hundred billion pounds. That's an enormous cost."

The creator of a social distancing computer game says he hopes it will help people to understand how they can save lives in the real world.

Players of Can You Save The World? must keep away from people in a crowded street, collect masks and avoid giant sneezes to build up a score of "saved lives".

It was the idea of Prof Richard Wiseman, a psychologist from the University of Hertfordshire, who created it with French games designer Martin Jacob. Watch how it works here: