NHS doctor Claire Redmond told BBC's Radio 4's Today programme that when her husband - a fellow NHS worker - developed symptoms, they immediately went into self-isolation with their three children.

Dr Redmond said her husband tested positive in April and was eventually hospitalised.

"I suppose the concern is that we went to great lengths to [self-isolate]... and I don’t think I would have dreamed of travelling the length of the country in order to try and sort out some child care."

She said when she started to develop symptoms she contacted her sister who lives "a good couple of hours away" and they both decided that should Dr Redmond become incapacitated, her sister would come and collect the children.

However, she said she still didn't feel comfortable with this option.

"I didn’t want that to happen at all because I didn't want to risk passing on this virus to anybody else," said Dr Redmond.

"I haven’t felt reassured that the MPs and Boris Johnson have really explained that they understand - or that Dominic Cummings actually did consider all possible alternatives before they travelled."

The front pages of Monday's newspapers in the UK are dominated by the growing pressure facing Prime Minister Boris Johnson to sack his senior adviser Dominic Cummings, who has been accused of breaking lockdown rules.

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Saffron Cordary, CEO of NHS providers, says it is "imperative" that the NHS gets back up and running again for routine operations, as the health service continues to face a backlog due to Covid-19.

But, speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said it will be very different to the service people are used to as securing sufficient levels of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is still a challenge.

"We need that sustainable supply in place, and really effective testing of NHS staff and patients," she said.

"We also need all of that support around the NHS, like adequate social care so we can make sure that we can look after people once they have had that treatment."

Ms Cordary went on to stress that it is "not just about the numbers," but about "having targeted testing.

"We need to make sure we have the test and trace in place so that we can contain local outbreaks and that's really important.

"We also need rapid turnaround testing for staff and patients and that could mean anything like 140,000 tests happening each day just to manage the NHS demand for testing," she added.

She said without this, the NHS cannot ensure staff safety.

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A domestic ban on travelling to Greek islands was lifted on Monday, as the country seeks to reboot its struggling tourist industry after weeks of coronavirus lockdown.

Ferries have resumed to islands that have been off limits since the Greek government imposed restrictions to contain the spread of Covid-19 in March.

Greece has been praised for its handling of the pandemic, recording 171 coronavirus-related deaths and 2,878 confirmed cases.

Last week, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the country would open up to international tourism from 15 June, earlier than originally planned.

He said most flights to Greece would resume by 1 July, when seasonal hotels will reopen and a two-week quarantine for foreigners will no longer be in force.

But tourists from countries with high infection rates won’t initially be allowed to visit.

Greece's tourism industry is vital to the country's economy, accounting for about a quarter of the country’s GDP.

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On Sunday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered his full support to his most senior adviser, Dominic Cummings, after he was accused of breaking lockdown rules.

Cummings and his wife travelled to County Durham from London to self-isolate with coronavirus symptoms.

Johnson said Cummings had "no alternative" but to make the journey, as he and his ill wife needed childcare help.

Here is what we know so far about the timeline:.

• 23 March: Johnson tells the UK public they "must stay at home". People are warned not to meet friends or family members they do not live with
• 27 March: Cummings is seen leaving No 10 Downing Street, external
• 30 March: Downing Street says Cummings is self-isolating with coronavirus symptoms
• 31 March: Police in Durham are "made aware of reports that an individual had travelled from London to Durham and was present at an address in the city". Officers "made contact with the owners of that address". It is understood Cummings travelled there between 27 and 31 March
• 12 April: Cummings visited Barnard Castle, 30 miles from his parents' home in Durham, according to The Observer and Mirror newspapers. On Sunday, Johnson said he was assured Cummings behaved responsibly and legally either side of his 14-day self-isolation
• 14 April: Cummings photographed at Downing Street for the first time since 27 March

• Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan urged citizens to follow social distancing guidelines as the country marked Eid on Sunday. Eid congregations were held in open places and mosques across major cities and towns - while maintaining guidelines, local media reported. Pakistan has more than 54,000 infections and 1,167 deaths
• Bangladesh reported its biggest spike in daily deaths as 28 people with Covid-19 died on Sunday, taking the total toll to 480
• In Sri Lanka, restrictions will be eased starting Tuesday, including the curfew being lifted during the day
• And Nepal saw a jump in cases on Sunday, as 19 new infections took the total tally to more than 600

Professor of Health Psychology at University College London, Robert West, says the "principle of equity" is important when responding to allegations that Dominic Cummings, the UK prime minister's most senior adviser, breached lockdown rules.

Speaking to the BBC's Radio 4's Today programme, Prof West said: "This is a political crisis for the government, but for the country it is a health crisis."

He suggested that in defending his top aide, the prime minister seemed to be "blurring the boundaries".

He said: "Another very important principle with this kind of behaviour change is that the rules have to have clear boundaries, and it has to be very clear what's in and what's out because as soon as it starts to get leaky, then people start to say 'well then, okay I’m sure I must be in this exceptional case'".

He acknowledged that in such a "complex" situation like this, obviously some exceptions applies - for example, allowing people in abusive relationships who may need to seek refuge to leave their home.

However, he says that "many many others" found themselves in a similar situation to Dominic Cummings' during lockdown "and felt that they had to do something different, they had to obey the rules".

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• The UK government has published new guidelines for elite athletes returning to contact training - when individual sports deem it safe to do so. Contact training is phase two in a three-stage plan, with the final phase - the resumption of sport behind closed doors - expected to begin in June.
• Football's Premier League, whose clubs returned to 'phase one' non-contact training on 19 May, will discuss the guidance at a meeting on Wednesday.
• Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning beat Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady in a charity golf match which raised $20m (£16.4m) for relief efforts in the US. The event was played between four of America's biggest sports stars at a rainy Medalist Golf Club in Florida - Woods' home course.

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India Correspondent

The first-time parents were driving through India's winding, empty highways to see their newborn child.

It was the middle of April, and the country was in the throes of the world's harshest lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

At checkpoints, policemen halted the couple, examined their papers and asked why they were on the road.

"We are going to see our first-born infant," they replied.

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Germany has reported another 289 new infections and ten deaths. The figures on Monday are usually somewhat lower due to delayed reporting over the weekend.

But since the gradual lifting of Germany's lockdown, there has been no uptick in infections or deaths. Although, parallel to the easing of some restrictions, other measures like mandatory face masks have come in.

Of all of Germany's cases, 52% were female and 48% were male. Only 2% were children under 10. Germany's widespread testing means that many with very mild or no symptoms are included in the data.

If broken down by cases per 100,000 people in each age group (see below), people above 80 are by far the ones most at risk of infection, data from Germany's Robert Koch Institute shows, external.

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The English football pyramid will be destroyed - unless the game starts to plan for the financial impact of Covid-19 beyond the 2019-20 season, says Phil Hodgkinson, the owner of Championship club Huddersfield.

Hodgkinson thinks as many as "50 or 60" clubs could go out of business. He is also looking at a "worst-case scenario" of no fans allowed in stadiums for the 2020-21 season.

"The problem is not whether we finish [this] season or not, it is what happens after that," he told BBC Sport.

"If we don't come to an agreement there will be no football pyramid. There are clubs I know of that are only still trading because they are deferring wages and [tax] and other creditors. They will need paying at some point."

In the UK, National Grid workers have been sleeping in pods at work for six weeks at a time to keep the country's power going during the pandemic.

Staying on site helps minimise the risk of them falling ill.

For Chris Jarvis from Rugby, in Warwickshire, it meant being separated from his wife and two young sons.

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Fiji Airways laid off more than half its workforce on Monday, some 758 people, as travel restrictions cut the airline's revenue to "virtually zero".

The remaining staff will have their salaries cut by 20% starting in June, and the airline will extend flight cuts to August.

Fiji Airways depends heavily on tourism, particularly from neighbouring Australia and New Zealand, but has seen virtually all flights suspended.

"The sad reality of prolonged flight suspensions means that we simply do not have work for a large segment of our workforce now, and for the foreseeable future," airline boss Andre Viljoen said.

The country has only 18 cases of Covid-19, no deaths and no new cases reported in over a month.

Laura Kuenssberg
Political editor

If Boris Johnson's decision to appear at Sunday's press conference was an attempt to close down the story about Dominic Cummings' behaviour during the lockdown by handling it himself, it failed completely.

It certainly was not an attempt to give the public the full information.

Instead the prime minister refused to answer the questions that remain about the specifics of his adviser's visit - or visits - to the north-east of England, while his team was telling the public again and again and again that they had to "stay at home".

• Click here to read Laura's full analysis

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Plans in the UK to ease the lockdown are being overshadowed by claims that an aide to Prime Minister Boris Johnson broke the lockdown rules.

In March, Dominic Cummings drove 260 miles from London so his parents could help with childcare - Cummings' wife and later Cummings himself both had to self-isolate with virus symptoms.

He also later drove around 30 miles from his temporary home in County Durham, apparently after his 14-day self-isolation.

Boris Johnson has defended his top aide, insisting he acted "responsibly, legally and with integrity".

The prime minister is this week expected to set out details of plans to lift restrictions. At a news conference on Sunday, he already confirmed the phased reopening of England's primary schools will begin on 1 June.

Australia - one of the world leaders in containing the virus - says its flat virus curve has been successfully sustained.

The growth rate of new cases has now been under 0.5% for five consecutive weeks.

"That's an extraordinary national achievement and I want to say to Australians, thank you," Health Minister Greg Hunt said.

Only six new cases were reported today - adding to the total of around 7,000. Some 101 people have died.

The nation has re-opened restaurants and schools and aims to have most lockdown measures removed by July.

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BBC News, Delhi

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Bollywood actor Sonu Sood, who made his career by playing a villain, is being hailed as a real-life hero in India.

Sood has been helping thousands of migrant workers, stranded by the Covid-19 lockdown in Mumbai, return home.

"It gave me sleepless nights when I saw visuals of people walking hundreds of kilometres to reach their villages," the actor told the BBC.

"Today we are distributing food and groceries every day to 45,000 people in slums, those stranded on the roads and those walking on the highways," he added.

And since 11 May, he has arranged hundreds of buses to take stranded migrants home.

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India’s strict lockdown meant most factories and businesses shut down, rendering millions jobless.

With no prospect of income, many of those people took long journeys back to their villages. Some managed to get transport, but those who couldn’t, walked hundreds of miles.

Some of them never made it home. Watch our full report here.

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From noon on Friday, New Zealanders will be able to attend gatherings of up to 100 people, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced.

The decision means that religious services will be able to resume and limits on attendees at funerals will no longer apply.

Hospitality venues will still be required to follow social distancing measures, however.

In April, the prime minister said coronavirus was "currently" eliminated in New Zealand and the country began lifting its restrictions.

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Over the past few weeks, many of us likely missed getting a decent pint in the pub down the road.

But if you're in the Czech Republic, today's the day!

Bars and restaurants will be able to reopen their indoor premises this Monday.

It gets better though: the largest brewery in the country is using the day for a big PR stunt.

Every customer who orders a beer in any pub serving Pilsner Urquell on tap will receive a second one for free, Czech media are reporting.

Yep, the mere thought of it makes us just as thirsty as you right now...