Mexican nurse Ligia Kantun says that in 40 years of work, she has never witnessed such a poisonous reaction to health workers. While in many countries doctors and nurses are being praised for their work on the coronavirus front line, in Mexico dozens have been attacked.

Ligia, 59, says that she worked during the swine flu pandemic in 2009 and an outbreak of cholera in 2013, but some people are "behaving psychotically in response to this virus".

"It is terrible," she says.

She was attacked on 8 April after leaving work in her hometown of Merida, Yucatan. Someone drove past her and threw hot coffee down her back. "Infected!" they yelled through the car window before speeding away.

She says that luckily she was not badly injured but she knows it could have been worse.

As of 28 April, there had been at least 47 attacks against health workers, particularly nurses, in the country, according to the Mexican government. And the authorities say the true figure may be higher. Reports on social media of discrimination range from nurses being stopped from getting on buses to doctors being assaulted by relatives of Covid-19 patients.

Read more here.

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With football in South Korea resuming behind closed doors, the last thing FC Seoul expected to have to apologise for was its fans.

The K-League side replaced supporters with mannequins for its opening home fixture of the season on Sunday, after a company called Dalcom offered to fill some of the empty seats.

In total, there were 30 mannequins - 25 of them female, and five male.

However, fans watching online noticed the stand-in spectators looked more like sex dolls - with some even holding signs advertising sex websites.

The club was forced to apologise on Instagram and Facebook.

Club official Lee Ji-hoon told the BBC it didn't do a background check on Dalcom, and didn't realise its line of work, but said the dolls were merely "premium mannequins" rather than anything more x-rated.

Thousands of Covid-19 cases are probably being missed because the UK has not updated its list of potential symptoms, Prof Tim Spector from King's College London told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

Prof Spector leads the team running the Covid Symptom Tracker app and said they had identified around 14 symptoms associated with having a positive test - but the UK continues to emphasise only coughs and fevers.

He said the country was likely to be missing 50,000 to 70,000 infections by overlooking complaints such as fatigue, muscle pain and loss of taste or smell, which other countries are including as indicators of coronavirus infection.

"This country is missing them all, underestimating cases but also putting people at risk and continuing the epidemic," he said.

"There’s no point telling people to be alert if they don’t know the symptoms."

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Russia has recorded 8,926 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of those infected to more than 290,000.

A total of 91 deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours, which takes the reported death toll to 2,722.

Italy may be reopening shops, restaurants and hairdressers, but people here are still living in limbo.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will be addressing the World Health Organization's 73rd World Health Assembly, getting underway today.

Xi will deliver a speech at the opening ceremony of the conference, which will be held by video link , externaldue to the global lockdown.

China has been criticised by some countries for not alerting the WHO and the world early enough about the virus outbreak. China's foreign ministry repeated on Monday that it was premature to begin an investigation into this.

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Some Premier League games could be shown on free-to-air television when professional football returns in England, says Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden.

He told BBC Breakfast the English top flight would only resume once it is safe to do so, with 12 June slated as a potential date - though there is a feeling among clubs that this may be pushed back.

There is a blanket ban on broadcasting 15:00 kick-offs in the UK but Mr Dowden says, because the matches will be played with no spectators, those slots could be available for free-to-air viewing.

"We are looking at increasing the number of matches that are free-to-air so people wouldn't be tempted to leave their houses to watch it," he said.

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Children are not the "primary drivers" of the coronavirus in schools, according to a study the government is analysing.

The paper by the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance focused on Covid-19 cases in schools in New South Wales, Australia's most populous state.

"Children are not the primary drivers of Covid-19 spread in schools or in the community," the report states.

The group said its findings were in line with other studies that had illustrated a limited spread among children and from children to adults.

A member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) subcommittee on schools told The Daily Telegraph that the UK government is looking at the report as it weighs up a phased reopening of primary schools from 1 June.

Read more: Are children at risk and do they spread it?

Tom Burridge
Transport correspondent

New crowd-control measures are in place in stations in England today, as more people are encouraged to get back to work. The BBC's transport correspondent Tom Burridge is at Euston station this morning:

I can see dozens of passengers streaming through the concourse now from a particular platform, but compared to normal this is very, very quiet at London Euston this morning

That’s what rail companies want, that’s what they’re working for, and that’s what the advice is designed to create.

There's probably at points this morning more staff than passengers. There’s lots of British Transport Police, lots of security staff to manage flows of passengers if necessary,

And dotted around the station there are yellow metal gates which they can pull across entrances and exits and entrances to platforms if necessary - if they judge that there are too many people.

I am told that the forecasting for train companies says that passenger numbers are expected to rise significantly several weeks from now, and that’s why they’re considering other measures at stations like possibly requiring people to book an arrival slot time at their local station in the future so that there aren’t crowds.

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Train stations are enforcing new rules to limit crowding on trains and platforms as services start to ramp up across the country.

The measures include blocking off seats to spread out passengers, and not halting at every stop if the carriages fill up early on.

There are more radical ideas on the table as well - such as requiring passengers to book time slots for when they can arrive at a station, or preventing them from boarding a train or even entering a station that's already full.

Currently, only people who cannot work from home are advised to return to their workplace. And workers have been asked to use public transport when they have no alternative.

Read the full story here.

Some of Asia's biggest cities are slowly limping back to normal as governments begin to ease restrictions.

Vietnam, one of the world's success stories in curbing the pandemic, has allowed non-essential businesses, such as bars, restaurants, cinemas and spas to reopen in recent weeks.

And Hanoi's popular Ta Hien Street, known as the beer corner, is once again looking like it used to.

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Thailand too has seen life inch closer to normality as outdoor markets reopened earlier in the month. The country also started to open shopping malls and department stores last week.

It has confirmed a little more than 3,000 cases, among the lowest in the world.

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Traffic has returned to cities such as Myanmar's Yangon and Pakistan's Karachi, which saw some of its roads clogged last week after the government allowed businesses to reopen with social distancing norms.

The government said rules could be reimposed if cases start to spike again.

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Standalone shops in Indian cities have also begun to reopen.

Both India and Pakistan have begun to relax restrictions, even as cases continue to rise, because the economic impact of lockdown has proved costly.

The two countries have not seen a high number of fatalities - a trend they hope will hold.

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Gavin Lee
BBC Europe reporter

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Belgian authorities have reported fewer than 50 Covid-19 deaths a day for two consecutive days, the lowest figure for almost two months.

Today, a week on from the reopening of all shops across the country, primary and secondary schools will begin again, for selected year groups, small classes, and attendance will be optional. Museums and zoos can reopen with online bookings only to ensure smaller crowds, and up to 20 people can play sports together.

This week is being seen as a huge test for Belgium, which has the world’s highest Covid-19 mortality rate, with 9,000 deaths in a country of 11 million.

Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes faced a so-called guard of dishonour outside a Brussels hospital at the weekend. Doctors and nurses turned their backs as her motorcade approached, in a protest over their pay and working conditions.

Saira Asher
BBC News

Taiwan has had astounding success battling coronavirus. It has recorded only 440 cases and seven deaths in a population of 23 million, attributed largely to early border controls, a ban on foreign visitors and mandatory quarantine for all Taiwanese people returning home.

This has given it a renewed zeal to be included in decision-making about global health.

And it's lobbied hard to be an observer at the World Health Assembly - the annual meeting of the World Health Organization's decision making body - that begins later today.

It's also won support from major powers including the US, EU, Japan and Australia.

But China - which says Taiwan is part of its territory - has blocked Taiwan's attendance since 2016.

The Taiwan dispute is long-running, but Shelley Rigger, professor of political science at Davidson College and long-time Taiwan researcher, says there may now be "diminished patience" from some countries with an objection from China which "feels very abstract and ideological in a moment of, you know, global catastrophe".

Read more about this here.

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
BBC Tokyo correspondent

Japan’s economy shrank just under 3.5% in the first three months of the years, according to figures released by the government on Monday.

The Japanese government had been expecting GDP to fall by as much as 5% in the first quarter of 2020, so these figures are to an extent good news.

They show that domestic demand from Japanese consumers only slipped a little in the period January to March. Exports have, however, been hit hard, falling 6%.

Much worse is expected to come. The full impact of the coronavirus pandemic didn’t hit Japan until April, when a nationwide state of emergency was declared, forcing much of the retail and entertainment sectors to close.

Economist are predicting a much bigger 20% fall in GDP in the second quarter. If so, it would be the biggest fall recorded in Japan’s peacetime history.

But there is also some hope that Japan will be able to re-open its economy fairly quickly.

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Pollution in areas of China has risen higher than last year after dropping considerably during its strict lockdown, according to a new study.

The Helsinki-based Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) said the rebound was likely due to industrial activity as the country attempts to kickstart the economy.

"There are early warning signs that China's recovery from the Covid-19 crisis is reversing air quality gains," it said.

Despite experiencing a major drop in February, the level of pollutants were higher in the 30 days ending 8 May on last year, the report said.

Industrial activity appears to be driving the rise as areas with large numbers of factories showed the biggest increase, it said.

The group analysed data from 1,500 air quality monitoring stations in China.

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Thailand plans a bankruptcy proceeding to save the country's flag carrier Thai Airways, officials have told news agency Reuters.

The move would replace an earlier rescue plan, which involved the airline seeking a $1.8m (£1.5m) loan guaranteed by the government.

The plans are to be submitted to cabinet on Tuesday.

The state of Thailand holds a 51% stake in the airline which like many global carriers has suffered dramatically from the global lockdown, although Thai Airways was already making losses before the global pandemic began.

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India recorded 5,242 new cases in the last 24 hours - the highest spike the country has seen so far, just as the government has begun to ease restrictions.

This takes the total number of cases to 96,169, with around 56,000 active infections.

While the lockdown is slated to end on 31 May, some non-essential shops and businesses have begun to reopen, and buses have been allowed to operate across cities and towns, and even cross state borders if they have permission.

Easing the lockdown is seen by some as essential for India's battered economy to recover - job losses have crossed 120 million.

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If you are just joining us from the UK, then welcome. Here are your headlines on Monday morning.

• The government says it is vital people do not use public transport unless their journey is essential and they have no alternative, but if you are planning to do so today then expect to see new measures in place.
• Security guards with crowd management training will be at some stations, while passengers could be prevented from boarding a train or entering a platform if there are too many people.
• It comes as the UK recorded 170 deaths yesterday - the lowest since 24 March, the day after lockdown was introduced.
• However, UK nations have been told they need to band together to compete in the global market for testing supplies.
• The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned cuts to public spending after the pandemic "would be catastrophic" and has urged politicians to be "brave and courageous" as they deal with the economic and social consequences of the lockdown.
• And a new points-based immigration system moves a step closer to becoming law as proposed legislation appears before MPs today - the immigration bill repeals EU freedom of movement and introduces the new framework - though not exact details - for who can come to live in Britain.

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Good morning from London. Here's a round-up of the latest developments in Europe as we head into a new week.

• More European countries are relaxing lockdown measures on Monday as the continent's worst-hit countries appear to have passed their peaks
• The UK, Italy and Spain all recorded their lowest death tolls since March over the weekend
• Most businesses in Italy, including bars and hairdressers, will be opening their doors for the first time in more than two months on Monday
• People living outside of Madrid and Barcelona in Spain will be free to meet in groups of 10
• Belgium is to begin reopening primary and secondary schools under strict conditions
• Portugal, Greece, Denmark and Ireland are also easing their lockdown measures

Ten weeks after imposing the world’s first national lockdown of the coronavirus pandemic, Italy is re-opening shops, restaurants and hairdressers, and restarting church services.

It marks the country’s next stage of recovery.

As cases have dropped, some hotels have taken in people infected with the virus who need to be isolated to further stop the spread.

Our correspondent Mark Lowen has visited one in Milan.