Russia has sent 25,000 tonnes of wheat in humanitarian aid to North Korea, its embassy in Pyongyang said in a Facebook post., external

The embassy said the ship's crew had since been placed in quarantine and the cargo was unloaded from the ship in an isolated area of the port.

"We had to watch the great teamwork of North Korean longshoremen and railroad workers from afar," said a translation of the statement by the TASS agency.

"We could see that they were doing their best to make sure that not a single grain was lost."

A UN report published in April warned that some 10 million North Koreans were facing severe food shortages.

It's not clear if food supply has been affected by the virus outbreak - Pyongyang maintains that there are no cases in the country.

• Read more about North Korea's shortage problems here

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As reported earlier, the rules regarding pub and restaurant reopenings vary across this vast continent. So where exactly can you get a meal or drink this weekend? Here is what's allowed:

• New South Wales: Bars are closed. Restaurants and cafes are open. Pubs are serving drinks if there's a meal order. Maximum 10 customers
• Queensland: Same as above, but rural venues can have 20 patrons
• Western Australia: Same as above, but 20 customers are allowed from Monday
• Australian Capital Territory: Bars, pubs, cafes and restaurants all open with a 10 person limit. Drinks need to accompany meals
• Northern Territory: Pubs are serving drinks with meals. Two-hour time limit to dining in restaurants and cafes
• Tasmania: Restaurants and cafes are open. Pubs reopen for drinks from Monday. Bars remain closed
• South Australia: Only outdoor dining is allowed with max 10 customers. No date yet on when pubs reopen
• Victoria: All dining and drinking venues remain closed. No date yet on when they reopen

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A sign outside a bar in Sydney:

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South Korea reported 27 more cases on Friday - most tied to a cluster that emerged from a nightlife district in the capital Seoul.

The number of cases linked to the Itaewon district is now 142, as the government attempts to track down those who visited the area at the start of the month.

All bars and clubs in the city have now been shut indefinitely.

The cluster came after South Korea relaxed some of its social distancing guidelines.

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Simon Atkinson
BBC News, Sydney

People in this city love their cafes - so there are lots of smiles this morning as more relaxed rules allowed people to sit in for a flat white or smashed avocado on toast.

At Kawa, close to Sydney's city centre, we found Graham Cordery - originally from Coventry in the UK - tucking into to a cooked breakfast.

“I can’t cook so I haven’t eaten this well in weeks,” he told me.

“I’ve missed the interaction you get in a cafe so it’s great to be able to come back.”

Cafe owner William Walsh has been getting by on takeaway coffees and food, but trade has been down 80 - 90%.

“We’re excited to be opening up and having people at our tables. We may never get quite back to where we were - this could be the new normal.”

New Zealand has reported one new virus case, breaking a run of three successive days with no cases.

The new case is said to be a teenager linked to the Marist cluster in Auckland - one the country's biggest clusters.

Marist College, a Catholic girls' school, has seen at least 85 cases linked to it.

New Zealand is currently at "level 2" alert, meaning shops can reopen, gatherings of up to 100 people are allowed, and public transport has resumed.

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Restaurants and cafes have re-opened today in New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state. Pubs can also reopen but only for dining – the bar stays closed.

But while the laws have been lifted, not all venues in Sydney are choosing to open their doors. There's a limit of just 10 patrons at any time - and many places say that's not a profitable number, so they'll just stick with takeaway orders.

It's one of the reasons why Victoria, (where Melbourne is the state capital), has not allowed dine-in trade just yet. It still has the most stringent restrictions in the nation.

But other states and territories are relaxing into the first stage of lockdown exit. In NSW and Queensland this weekend, households can receive up to five visitors and groups of up to 10 people can meet outside, gather for a bootcamp or go to church.

Even greater freedoms are already allowed in South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

Australia - seen as a world leader in fighting the virus - has reported under 1% daily growth in new cases for the past month.

There have been under 100 deaths, most of its 7,000 cases have recovered, and there are only 50 infected people in hospital currently.

Hello and welcome back to our rolling coverage of the coronavirus outbreak. We're writing to you out of Singapore this morning. We'll be joined by our colleagues across Asia and London later on today.

Some good news for those of you based in the Australian state of New South Wales. People are now able to go for a meal at restaurants, pubs, and cafes - though social distancing rules still have to be obeyed, and there are capacity restrictions.

Japan too has lifted its state of emergency in 39 prefectures, after a sharp fall in new infections. Tokyo, however, will remain under the emergency restrictions.

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And in England, a swab test survey has suggested that one in 400 people has the virus - or 0.27% of the population.

There are now over 4.4 million confirmed cases across the world, with some 302,115 deaths.