Examining a patient with Covid-19 does always bear a risk for the doctor. And in many cases, it should ideally be several doctors who can discuss their diagnosis.

So at some hospitals in the UK, mixed reality headsets seem to be the answer to this.

Hand gestures allow doctors using the devices to look at x-rays, scans and test results, while communicating with colleagues in a different, virus-free room.

From June, New South Wales, the most-populous state, will allow its residents to travel across the region for holidays. Currently, only care visits are allowed.

Most of the state's eight million residents live in Sydney and other coastal cities, so this is aimed at getting city residents out into the country and boosting tourism.

NSW is also encouraging interstate visitors - a message which optimistically belies the fact that besides Victoria, all other states are still keeping their borders shut. (They moved quickly when it became clear most of Australia's infections were in NSW and Victoria.)

Still, NSW residents will have plenty of room to wander in a state which is three times the size of the UK.

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US President Donald Trump has praised it for weeks and says he's taking it himself. And now Brazil is also pushing for it to be used on a widespread level.

Hydroxychloroquine (and a similar drug chloroquine) is an anti-malaria drug and some anectodal evidence has suggested it might work against Covid-19 as well. Scientific studies are ongoing but so far, no study has confirmed that it has any effect against the coronaviurs.

In fact, there are warnings over serious and even fatal side effects the medication can have.

The BBC's Reality Check team has looked in depth at what the concerns over the drug are, why some people are promoting it and which countries have authorised its use against Covid-19.

• Click here to read our full take on whether the drug works or not

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Up to 60m people will be pushed into "extreme poverty" by the coronavirus warned the president of the World Bank.

David Malpass said the bank expects global economic growth to shrink by 5% this year as nations deal with the pandemic.

This has already led to millions losing their jobs and businesses failing, with poorer countries feeling the brunt.

"Millions of livelihoods have been destroyed and healthcare systems are under strain worldwide," he said.

The World Bank defines "extreme poverty" as living on less than $1.90 (£1.55) per person per day.

Read our full story here.

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As bushfires ravaged the small town of Mogo on New Year's Eve, all that many residents could do was flee.

When they returned, almost 500 homes in the town and surrounding shire had been razed.

In the following weeks, the Business Council of Australia announced funding for a pop-up mall and 10 temporary buildings. It was hoped that local businesses could find their feet again, but the virus has crippled the community once more.

The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil was able to visit the town, observing distancing rules.

"It's heart-breaking and soul destroying," one business owner, Lorena Granados, told her. "Our motivation went from a hundred to nothing."

Read more of Shaimaa's report.

Because of the lockdown, parents in the UK, like in many other countries, are unable to visit their newborns regularly if the babies have to stay in hospital.

But the parents of Kai - who was born prematurely - are getting to see him through an app on their phone.

Every morning Kai's mother wakes up to a message updating her on how her son slept, and a real-time picture of him - and the updates continue throughout the day.

Take a look:

Venezuela's central bank has made a legal claim to try to force the Bank of England to hand over €930m ($1bn; £820m) worth of gold it holds.

Venezuela, already suffering under US and British sanctions, says it wants to use the gold's value to tackle coronavirus.

Legal documents say the bank wants the transfer made "as a matter of urgency" to buy supplies like food and medicine. They say the bank has agreed to transfer the money directly to the United Nations to administer for that purpose.

Britain does not recognise the government of Nicolas Maduro as legitimate.

The Bank of England acts as a gold custodian for a number of developing nations.

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India is preparing for a "severe cyclonic storm" - one of the biggest in decades - which will make landfall on the country's eastern coast this afternoon or evening.

Cyclone Amphan is expected to bring heavy rains and winds gusting up to 185km/h (115mph).

Millions are being evacuated in coastal villages in Orissa and West Bengal states, with the latter likely to experience the brunt of the storm.

Both states have turned government schools and other buildings into shelters as they need extra space to accommodate people with social distancing norms - and they are short of them as many existing shelters are already being used as quarantine centres.

The storm comes as India's confirmed Covid-19 cases crossed the 100,000 mark.

Katy Watson
BBC South America correspondent

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Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro will finally have his way – helped by his new interim health minister, an army general, happy to take orders from his boss.

Speaking live on Facebook, Bolsonaro said that Eduardo Pazuello would sign the new protocol which widens the use of the anti-malarial drug chloroquine beyond just critical patients – this, despite there being no evidence that it helps treat or prevent Covid-19.

He announced the decision on the same day that Brazil saw a record number of deaths and new cases.

Bolsonaro also mentioned that he kept a small box of chloroquine in case his 93-year-old mother needed it.

It was only a few days ago that Brazil’s previous health minister resigned, reportedly because he felt under pressure to sign the new guidelines.

Read more about chloroquine here.

Daily global emissions of CO2 fell by 17% at the peak of the shutdown because of measures taken by governments in response to Covid-19, scientists say.

Industry has temporarily closed down and demand for energy all over the world has crashed. China has been responsible for the biggest drop, followed by the US, Europe and India.

The most comprehensive account, external yet published says that almost half the record decrease was due to fewer car journeys.

But the authors are worried that, as people return to work, car use will soar again. They fear CO2 emissions could soon be higher than before the crisis.

• Click here to read our full story on the virus and climate change

Hundreds of thousands of high school seniors are returning to school in South Korea today - but things aren't exactly going to be the same.

For one, they'll have to get their temperatures checked, hands sanitised and don a mask before they're able to step into school premises.

If a case is confirmed within a school, the school will switch back to online classes immediately.

The country is implementing a phased return to the classroom - all of the country's students will eventually get back to school by 8 June.

Watch the scenes outside one school this morning.

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World Health Organization (WHO) member states have agreed to set up an independent inquiry into the global response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The resolution, approved without objection by the WHO's 194-member annual assembly meeting virtually in Geneva, also allows for the inquiry to look into the health body's own role.

The United States in particular has been highly critical of its response.

The EU presented the resolution on behalf of 100 nations.

Read the full story here.

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Qantas, Australia's national carrier, says when it resumes normal operation next month it will run flights with no physical distancing. It will offer masks and hand sanitiser to passengers but masks won't be mandatory.

This model- understandably - has made many nervous and some are questioning whether the airline is prioritising costs over health risks. Qantas says were it to enact personal space guidelines, planes would only have 22 passengers and airfares would be up to 10 times higher.

In defending the plan, chief executive Alan Joyce also said Qantas had run several full repatriation flights for the government with no issues. There were also few confirmed cases globally of the virus being contracted on a plane, he said.

He claimed pressurised plane cabins were safer environments than other transport. This is because passengers sit the same way, high seats act as barriers and the filtered "air flow is top to bottom".

• How will airlines get flying again?

However, several health experts in Australia have said they're still cautious of air travel, and would not sit close to a stranger in a contained space.

US President Donald Trump has argued it is "a badge of honour" that the US has the world's highest number of confirmed Covid-19 infections.

"I look at that as, in a certain respect, as being a good thing because it means our testing is much better," he said.

While the US has conducted more tests by volume than any other country, it is not first in the world on a per capita basis, according to Our World in Data, a scientific publication based at Oxford University.

Its chart, external ranks the US as 16th globally in terms of tests per 1,000 people, ahead of South Korea, but less than the likes of Iceland, New Zealand, Russia and Canada.

• Click here to read our full story on Trump's comment

The US has 1.5 million coronavirus cases and nearly 92,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

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Brazil has recorded its highest daily death toll yet with 1,179 over that past 24 hours. Overall, the virus has now been linked to almost 18,000 fatalities in the country.

In terms of infections, Brazils now has the world’s third-highest number with 271,885 confirmed cases. Over the past 24 hours alone, there were 17,408 new positive tests and observers say the country’s peak is not expected until June.

Brazil is deeply divided over how to respond to the pandemic. President Jair Bolsonaro has repeatedly downplayed the severity of the virus and argues that the lockdowns implemented by regional governors will do more harm to the economy and hence the people – than the virus itself.

Hello and welcome back to the BBC's live coverage of the global coronavirus outbreak. We're writing to you from Singapore this morning, and will be joined by our colleagues across Asia, Australia and London later on today.

Here's a quick look at what's happening this morning:

• Brazil has recorded 1,179 virus deaths over the past 24 hours - its biggest daily toll yet - bringing the overall death toll to 17,971. The pandemic appears to be rapidly gaining pace in Brazil

• The World Bank has warned that 60 million people could be pushed into extreme poverty as a result of the outbreak
• Over in Asia, Singapore has announced it will end its partial state of lockdown on 1 June, though most curbs and guidelines will still remain in place as the country looks to transition into a "new normal" phase
• The number of cases worldwide is now inching slowly towards 4.9m, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The death toll now stands at 322,861