PMQs has finished for this week. Here's what happened:

• Boris Johnson said the death of Belly Mujinga was "utterly appalling" while Labour leader Keir Starmer said the ticketing officer had died in "awful circumstances"
• The PM announced a further £600m for infection control in care homes
• The Labour leader accused the government of being to slow in protecting people in care homes
• He said that until 12 March official guidance said it was "very unlikely that people would become infected in care homes"
• The prime minister said there had been a "terrible epidemic" in care homes and that the final death rate figures in the UK would be "stark and deeply horrifying"
• He promised all Sage (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) advice to the government would be published "in due course"
• SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford attacked the government's communication saying it had created "widespread confusion"

Reality Check

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said it is "very likely" the UK is in a "significant recession", as figures show the economy shrank by 2% in the first three months of 2020.

Are we sure about these GDP figures? No, we’re not, although we can be pretty sure that the lockdown has been bad for the economy overall.

This is the first estimate of the change in the value of stuff produced by the UK economy, measured by gross domestic product (GDP), between January and March.

The first estimate is published pretty soon after the end of the period it is measuring, and it tends to rely on more reliable data for the first couple of months of the quarter-year, and less on what happened in the third month.

That’s a problem for this set of figures, because the period we are most interested in is the last week in March, when lockdown had started.

Also, a lot of the data behind these figures comes from surveys, and the ONS says that as a result of the coronavirus measures, fewer companies responded to its surveys.

And the ONS is facing just the same challenges when doing its work as any other business. It warns that this estimate is “subject to more uncertainty than usual”.

Reality Check

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The prime minister was asked about a chart comparing coronavirus deaths in the UK with those in other countries.

He repeated his assertion that it is too early to make such comparisons, although Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer pointed out that the chart had been used in daily government briefings for the past seven weeks.

Many statisticians have said that making precise comparisons between countries will not be possible until we have figures for excess deaths for all the relevant countries.

But Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter, who both the prime minister and Labour leader have referred to in Prime Minister’s Questions, said it was still possible to identify “the bad countries in Europe: UK, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy”, and said: “Clearly it’s important to note that group is way above in terms of their mortality, a group like Germany, Austria, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, who have low fatality rates."

You can read more about the challenges of international comparisons here.

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Acting Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey thanks the government for extending the furlough scheme.

He then asks if the government will do the same for the self-employed, adding that "millions of families now have no help in the future".

Boris Johnson replies that the job retention scheme has been "one of the most extraordinary features of this country collective response to the virus".

On the issue of the self-employed, he says: "We are making sure that they do get payments for over three months of up to £7,500 as well."

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SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford says there is "widespread confusion" about the new lockdown rules, adding that communication "could not have been more disastrous".

He accuses the PM of having "shut out" devolved administrations - something rejected by Mr Johnson, who says co-operation between different UK nations has been "intense".

Following up, Ian Blackford raises concerns about crowding on public transport and accuses the government of putting workers at risk by asking them to go in without "guidance on their health and safety".

The prime minister replies that the government wants additional services and "proper marshalling" at stations to keep people apart.

The Labour leader asks whether the PM can commit to publishing the scientific advice coronavirus decisions are based on, "to give the public confidence".

"These are not easy decisions - I recognise that," he says.

Boris Johnson replies that "all Sage [Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies] advice will be published in due course".

He adds that he believes the people "can see exactly what we are trying to do".

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Turning to the issue of childcare, Sir Keir Starmer asks the PM what advice he has for parents asked to return to work who do not have childcare.

Boris Johnson says the government is determined to learn lessons from elsewhere - noting there are signs infection rates have gone up in countries that have lifted lockdown measures.

He says employers "must be understanding" with their employees on childcare - noting it could be an "impediment" to their ability to go in.

From today, some childminders in England can reopen.

The BBC's Laura Kuennsberg says the PM is suffering without his backbenchers behind him:

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Sir Keir Starmer asks why the government has stopped publishing international comparisons for coronavirus deaths.

Boris Johnson says he has been advised that "comparisons to other countries is premature".

"The correct way to make these comparisons is when we have all the excess death totals for all the countries," he says.

"I am not going to try to pretend to this house that the figures are anything other than stark and deeply horrifying.

"We are getting those numbers down."

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Sir Keir Starmer says the number of deaths in care homes in April was three times the expected monthly rate.

He asks the prime minister as to how the extra deaths can be explained.

Boris Johnson replies that the "terrible epidemic" in care homes revealed by the latest figures is a "tragedy".

But he says there has been a "substantial reduction" in both infections and deaths in care homes since an action plan for them came in.

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The leader of the UK Labour opposition party, Sir Keir Starmer, asks the PM whether the UK was "too slow to protect people in care homes".

He says until 12 March official guidance said it was "very unlikely" that people would become infected in care homes - but latest figures that is where 40% of Covid deaths have occurred.

Boris Johnson says the government is today announcing a further £600m for infection control in care homes.

He says Starmer's description of the advice "wasn't true" - and care home deaths are falling.

Starmer then reads out a quote from a cardiologist who says patients suspected of having coronavirus were moved from hospitals to care homes, without warning or support.

Johnson replies that "the number of discharges from hospitals to care homes went down in March and April".

"We had a system of testing people going into care homes," he says adding "that testing is being ramped up".

In response to Starmer's care home question, the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg says this may be a "very tricky" PMQs for Johnson.

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson begins by telling the house that sadly 144 NHS workers and 131 social care workers deaths have been reported as involving Covid-19.

He also pays tribute to Victoria ticket worker Belly Mujinga who died from the virus after being spat at in the face.

"The fact that she was abused for doing her job is utterly appalling," he says.

"My thoughts are with her family."

Prime Minister's Questions has now begun in the House of Commons.

We will be covering the main parts, but you can follow all the action live here.

Official figures show the UK economy shrank by 2% in the first quarter of this year (January, February and March).

But the key month to pay attention to is March, because the coronavirus lockdown began in the last week of that month.

If you look at March on its own, the figures show the economy contracted by 5.8% in that month - the worst monthly drop since records began in 1997.

To put it into context, during the 2007-08 financial crisis the UK economy shrank by 6.9% - but that was over a period 13 months.

The BBC's Ben Thompson explains in the video below:

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South Asia editor

A middle-aged German man who has been living in an Indian airport terminal for almost eight weeks has finally left and boarded a flight to Amsterdam.

Edgard Ziebat flew into Delhi's international airport from Hanoi in Vietnam on 18 March, expecting to head to Istanbul a few hours later.

But he arrived to find his flight - and all the others - had been cancelled, and was then denied permission to enter India.

He also failed to take an emergency evacuation flight organised by the German authorities, leading to comparisons with the stranded passenger played by Tom Hanks in the film The Terminal.

Delhi airport staff say they gave Ziebat food, toiletries and a recliner - and he spent his days reading and talking to friends by phone. Some reports suggested he refused to return to Germany because he faced criminal charges there - but Ziebat did not comment.

Commuters in London said social distancing was "next to impossible" on Wednesday as many made their first journeys to work since lockdown rules were eased in England.

Street works inspector Matt Hickson, 47, told the BBC that he saw "less than 10% of commuters wearing masks" on his London Underground journey today.

"People are taking liberties not only with their own health but with other people's," he said. "There could be a second wave of infections coming."

Mick Cash, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, said reports of packed Tube trains on Wednesday show how "fraught with danger" the government's return to work message is.

The government said it would have to "take steps" if too many people used public transport, after England's lockdown guidelines were changed to encourage people to return to work if they cannot work from home.

Passengers using public transport should stay 2m (6ft) apart and wear face coverings, under government guidelines, external.

Working from home all day can be difficult, especially if there are still restrictions on exercising outside in the country you're in. So you may be wondering how you can continue to stay active. We asked a fitness trainer (who’s also a farmer) to show us some simple exercises to do while cooped up at home.

We're expecting Prime Minister's Questions to begin in about 40 minutes, with Boris Johnson set to face Labour's leader Sir Keir Starmer for the second time following Johnson's recovery from coronavirus.

While we wait, here are the latest headlines from around the UK:

• The UK economy shrank at the fastest pace since 2008 in the first three months of the year
• People in England who cannot work from home are being encouraged to return to their workplaces, as the UK government begins to slightly ease some lockdown restrictions
• Under the new rules, people can also spend more time outside, meet a friend at the park and move home, while garden centres can reopen

• Travel firm TUI has pledged to "reinvent the holiday in 2020", but it has warned of up to 8,000 job losses amid the pandemic
• And millions of self-employed people can apply for grants from the government from today

Health officials in South Sudan have for the first time confirmed cases of coronavirus in camps for people displaced by conflict.

Two people have become infected in a camp in the capital, Juba, and one in Bentiu in the north of the country.

Health experts have been warning of the potential danger if the virus were to spread in the overcrowded camps, which are home to nearly 200,000 people across the country.

Years of conflict have left South Sudan with one of the least equipped health care systems on the African continent.

There are 194 confirmed cases of the virus in the country.

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