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Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, deputy chief medical officer for England, gives an update on the latest mobility data from Apple Maps.

He says there has been a "gradual" increase in searches for walking and driving directions, but public transport searches are "essentially flat".

Unveiling the slide above, he also says there is evidence of a "definite sustained decline" in new confirmed cases in the UK.

He also says the decline in the number of deaths after a positive test is "consistent and solid".

Raab says it has been a "challenging time" and he thanks all those for responding to the "adjustments" made to the lockdown a week ago.

He says the UK's priority is still to save lives and preserve livelihoods.

He says there were inevitably some risks in easing the restrictions on movement and travel, but he says the previous eight-week lockdown was not permanently sustainable on health and economic grounds.

He says people will have "concerns and questions" about the way ahead and how the UK will move to the next phase.

The effect on the easing of restrictions will continually be monitored to see if the UK can move to the next phase on 1 June, which could see the reopening of schools and some shops.

He says the UK's test, track and trace strategy is vital to doing this and refers to the hiring of 21,000 people, including 7,000 health professionals to help with its roll-out.

The UK Department of Health says 34,796 people have died in hospitals, care homes and the wider community after testing positive for coronavirus in the UK as of 5pm on Sunday, up by 160 from 34,636 the day before.

In the 24-hour period up to 9am on Monday, 100,678 tests were carried out or dispatched, with a total of 67,409 people tested and 2,684 positive results.

Overall a total of 2,682,716 tests have been carried out, and 246,406 cases have been confirmed positive.

As always, there are two important caveats to mention with these figures

There has typically been a reporting lag over the weekend and today’s figures – which represent the lowest daily death toll since 24 March – might not be a true indicator of future numbers.

And most experts accept the total death toll attributable to the virus is much higher than that officially recorded by the Department of Health, with ONS figures indicating thousands of excess deaths over the past two months.

The number of people in hospital has fallen by 13% to 9,408.

As for testing, 100,678 tests were carried out in the past 24 hours, marginally above the government’s 100,000 end of April target.

We will be hearing from the UK government shortly with its daily briefing on coronavirus, led by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.

It comes after Health Secretary Matt Hancock said everyone in the UK aged five and over with symptoms could now be tested for coronavirus.

The UK has also added a loss of taste or smell to the list of Covid-19 symptoms, alongside a fever and a new persistent cough.

Tulip Mazumdar
Global Health Correspondent

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After a good four hours of countries pledging their support for the World Health Organization, the US took just three minutes to launch a scathing attack on the UN's health agency.“We must be frank... There was a failure by this organisation to obtain the information that the world needed, and that failure cost many lives”, was one of the brutal opening lines from US Health Secretary Alex Azar. It didn't get any prettier...

He didn't specifically name China, but talked about "at least one member state's apparent attempt" to "conceal this outbreak", and said the WHO "must become far more transparent and far more accountable”.

Sean Coughlan
BBC News, education correspondent

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Students applying for university places in England must be told with "absolute clarity" how courses will be taught before they make choices for the autumn, the university watchdog has said.

Courses might still be online and Nicola Dandridge, of the Office for Students (OFS), warned against misleading promises about a "campus experience".

Campuses have been closed this term by the Covid-19 outbreak.

But universities can charge full fees even if courses are taught online.

The OFS says this information should be provided for students before they make a firm choice in June - and "certainly before" the clearing process that follows students getting their A-level grades in August.

Read more here.

Ben Butcher
BBC Reality Check

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has faced criticism over the many thousands of deaths in care homes in England since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, but when were key decisions made?

On 25 February, government advice for care homes in England said “there is no need to do anything differently in any care setting at present".

This was because they said there was no evidence of transmission of the virus in the community - but the government’s scientific advisers had already suggested it was “a realistic probability”.

On 13 March, the guidance was updated with care homes advised to ask “no-one to visit who has suspected Covid-19 or is generally unwell”.

On 16 March, the prime minister said: “We don't want to see people unnecessarily visiting care homes.”

But the official guidance advising this wasn’t published until 2 April.

By then, 1,593 English care homes had reported outbreaks and almost 850 residents had died with coronavirus in England and Wales.

Reality Check has been looking in detail at the timeline in this piece.

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US pharmaceutical company Moderna Inc has seen its share price shoot up after a promising early trial for a Covid-19 vaccine.

The drug produced virus-neutralising antibodies akin to those found in patients who have recovered from the coronavirus.

The company's share price rose 25% as news spread of the trial.

"We are investing to scale up manufacturing so we can maximise the number of doses we can produce to help protect as many people as we can from SARS-CoV-2," Moderna Chief Executive Officer Stéphane Bancel told Reuters news agency.

About 80 groups around the world are researching vaccines and some are now entering clinical trials.

Most experts think a vaccine is likely to become available by mid-2021, about 12-18 months after the virus first emerged. But some have cautioned that there may never be one.

See here for more on the race to develop a vaccine.

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As many as 22,000 high school students may have to retake Advanced Placement (AP) exams in the US after technical problems.

Students took the tests online this year after schools were closed by coronavirus. Several students reported problems with submitting their answers at the end of the timed examination.

The College Board, the organisation which runs the exams, said issues with submitting answers had affected fewer than 1% of the 2.2 million who took the tests, and students could retake them in June.

It blamed outdated browsers for the issues.

Some universities in the US give credits based on the scores achieved by students in their AP exams, and others consider AP scores in whether to accept new recruits.

Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth has welcomed Matt Hancock’s announcement about the expansion of testing in the UK, but asked why there still isn’t routine testing for all care home residents and staff.

Speaking in the House of Commons, he also asked why there had been “a time lag” in the government updating its guidance on virus symptoms, saying experts were making this warning about the loss of smell “eight weeks ago”.

He pressed the government on the time taken for results to be received showing whether someone had Covid-19 or not.

He added that he had long argued that the way out of lockdown was having a tracing strategy in place, but said it depended on a quick turnaround in testing results.

The SNP’s health spokeswoman Philippa Whitford said Mr Hancock took pride in ramping up testing capacity but suggested thousands were being included even though they had been simply mailed to applicants and were “just in the post”.

Mr Hancock denied that tests were being “double counted” in order to boost the daily numbers and enable the government to meet its new target of 200,000 tests by the end of the month.

Nick Triggle
Health Correspondent

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The expansion of the testing programme may grab the headlines.

It is a significant milestone – in less than two months the UK has gone from only being able to test hospital patients and health and care staff to offering it more or less population-wide.

But it should not mask the difficulties that remain getting the test, track and trace system up-and-running.

This will be essential to contain local outbreaks as we ease ourselves out of lockdown.

Tests are still taking too long to turn around for some – significant numbers are thought to be waiting several days – while the piloting of the tracking app on the Isle of Wight is not yet finished.

One particular concern is that the app does not yet let users know if the person they have had contact with ends up testing positive. Instead, it has only let them know if the contact has developed symptoms.

That is a major problem. It means people have been left in limbo and incorporating that feature into the app will be important.

Progress is being made, but getting a workable and efficient system in place soon is still a monumental challenge.

Tulip Mazumdar
Global Health Correspondent

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So far countries have been very supportive of the World Health Organization, with both China and South Korea pledging hundreds of millions of dollars to the global fight against Covid-19.The director general of the UN's health agency has welcomed international calls for an independent investigation into the WHO-led global response, promising a "lessons learned" inquiry at the "earliest appropriate moment".Both South Korea and Australia have said the assembly should also consider giving the WHO more powers, with Australia specifically pointing to greater "inspection powers". There have been calls for the agency to be mandated to go into countries very early in outbreaks, to carry out independent investigations. China, meanwhile, has said it supports a "comprehensive evaluation" of the global response but only after the pandemic "has been brought under control". That could take months or even years. The US has yet to address the assembly, but expect pushback from them on this.

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We’re expecting the UK government’s daily press conference in around an hour, led by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.

He’ll be joined by Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, deputy chief medical officer for England.

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Cross-channel ferry operators and other freight firms, including Eurotunnel, are to get £35m in financial support to ensure the continued supply of "vital" food and medical supplies to the UK.

The cash injection will support routes operated by Brittany Ferries, DFDS, P&O, Seatruck and Stena.

UK ministers said the intervention would protect 16 key routes between the UK and France and between Britain and Northern Ireland, which were at risk due to the pandemic.

Those in line for support over the next nine weeks include:

• Portsmouth-Santander
• Portsmouth-Cherbourg
• Dover-Dunkerque
• Dover-Calais
• Tilbury-Zeebrugge
• Hull-Zeebrugge
• Harwich-Hoek van Holland

Announcing the move in Parliament, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said it would "protect the movement of goods and services in and out of the UK, safeguarding the flow of supplies across the UK".

He said the agreement was part of joint efforts by the UK, France and the Republic of Ireland to minimise economic disruption.

The UK's Freight Transport Association described it as a "good starting point" and said it would work with government to keep vital goods moving.

Giving more details about the expansion of testing, Mr Hancock said the UK had scaled up its diagnostic testing capacity over the past six weeks at "breathtaking" speed and was now a "global champion".

He encouraged all those aged over five with symptoms - a new persistent cough, a high temperature or the loss of smell or taste - to register for a test now.

The move would mean the virus had "fewer places to hide", he said.

Hospital patients, care home residents, NHS workers and care staff would continue to be prioritised, he added.

The government has been criticised for stopping community testing in the middle of March and although it hit its target of 100,000 tests by the end of April, that figure has regularly been missed since.

Matt Hancock says 21,000 people have been recruited to conduct contact-tracing in England, including 7,500 healthcare workers.

The health secretary had originally set a target to recruit 18,000 tracers by the middle of this month.

The team will be vital to the UK's scheme to track down people who have been in contact with those showing symptoms.

Rory Cellan-Jones
Technology correspondent

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It is 10 days since all Isle of Wight residents were invited to test the NHS app at the heart of the government's test, track and trace strategy. So how's it going?

Mixed would probably be a fair verdict, though we may have a clearer idea following a Commons statement by the Health Secretary Matt Hancock this afternoon.

The big concern was how many people would download it. Epidemiologists suggest that for the UK as a whole, about 60% of the population needs to install and use the software for it to live up to its full potential.

So when Downing Street says there have been roughly 60,000 downloads, that's not a bad result. The island's population is 140,000, and its inhabitants are slightly older and less likely to own a smartphone than the UK average.

But one cautionary note - that 60,000 may include some who downloaded it twice or are from the mainland.

Read the full analysis

Details of plans to quarantine travellers arriving in the UK will be "set out in due course", Downing Street says.

But the prime minister's spokesman said there had never been plans for a specific exemption for people coming from France, as had been reported last week. There is an "ongoing discussion with the French government", he said.

Boris Johnson and President Emmanuel Macron discussed how the tunnel connecting their countries could have an important role to play in the movement of freight both ways.

But the UK will determine its own policy.

The spokesman was not aware of discussions with other countries "at leader level" regarding the quarantine plans.

There will, however, be an exemption for those entering the UK from the Common Travel Area, meaning those coming from Ireland.

Any quarantine measures will be reviewed every three weeks in line with scientific advice

The Foreign Office advice remains that nothing but essential travel should be taken overseas.

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Everyone over the age of five living in the UK with symptoms of coronavirus will soon be eligible to be tested, the health secretary has just told MPs.

The move has been agreed by Matt Hancock and his counterparts in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Testing in England and Scotland is currently limited to key workers, hospital patients, care home residents, the over-65s and those who need to leave home for work.

In Northern Ireland and Wales, it is confined to key workers, hospital patients and care home residents.

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There have been more that two million claims for the UK’s grant scheme for self-employed people, the chancellor has said.

Rishi Sunak told MPs that the total value of the claims made as of yesterday stood at £6bn, after applications opened last week.

Grants will be calculated for 80% of average monthly profit over a period of up to three years.

The maximum payment will be £7,500, intended to cover March, April and May.