We’re winding up our live coronavirus coverage for Sunday. Thanks for joining us. Our colleagues in Singapore and Sydney will get things started again when they wake up.

Here's a recap of the day's top stories:

• Anger has continued to grow over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of white police officers in the US city of Minneapolis. But officials are now raising concerns that mass protests - which have been seen across the US, as well as in London and other European cities - could help fuel the spread of coronavirus
• Brazil has passed France to have the fourth-highest number of deaths in the world. The country is second only to the US in its number of confirmed infections
• In the UK, the government has changed its advice for the most vulnerable people in England and Wales. More than two million people who were previously shielding will be able to go outside again from Monday
• From Monday in England, primary schools will start to reopen and people can meet outdoors in groups of up to six
• Afghanistan's public health ministry has warned of an impending catastrophe as confirmed cases pass 15,000
• But some European countries are reporting promising daily figures: Spain reported fewer than 100 new cases on Sunday; Sweden recorded no new deaths and Poland announced its lowest daily infection toll in two months

Today's updates were brought to you by: Jasmine Taylor-Coleman, Lauren Turner, Kevin Ponniah, Sean Fanning, Ashitha Nagesh, Victoria Bisset, Gavin Stamp, Doug Faulkner, Jo Couzens, Ben Collins and Saj Chowdhury.

The number of deaths in Brazil has reached 28,834, meaning the country now has overtaken France to have the world's fourth-highest Covid-19 death toll.

Only the US, the UK and Italy have recorded more fatalities.

But Brazil is not the only country in Latin America struggling to contain outbreaks of the virus, and the World Health Organization has said the continent is the new epicentre of the pandemic.

Find out how the trends in Latin America compare to Europe and how governments there have been responding.

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The Colosseum in Rome has been illuminated with the colours of the Italian flag in remembrance of those who have died with Covid-19.

The monument, which has been closed for three months, will reopen on Monday.

But new health precautions have been put in place, including temperature checks and onsite medical staff. Visitors must also wear face masks.

The leaning Tower of Pisa welcomed its first visitors on Saturday.

Italy has the third-highest number of confirmed coronavirus deaths in the world, after the US and the UK.

With lockdown rules easing, people have been flocking to beaches and parks to enjoy warm weather as the UK sees its sunniest spring since records began in 1929.

Dr Mark McCarthy from the Met Office's national climate information centre said parts of England had also seen "exceptionally dry" conditions this month, with less than 10mm of rain falling on average.

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The White House has sent two million doses of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) - a malaria drug often touted as a potential treatment for coronavirus - to Brazil, which has been hit hard by Covid-19.

It said it was also sending 1,000 ventilators to the South American country.

"HCQ will be used as a prophylactic to help defend Brazil’s nurses, doctors, and healthcare professionals against the virus," a White House statement says., external

"It will also be used as a therapeutic to treat Brazilians who become infected."

President Trump recently said he was taking the drug but on Wednesday Dr Anthony Fauci, a lead member of his coronavirus taskforce, told CNN, external that the scientific data "is really quite evident now about the lack of efficacy" of the drug as a treatment.

Last week, France banned the use of HCQ as a treatment for Covid-19 patients and also in clinical trials.

This all comes after the World Health Organization temporarily removed the drug from global trials, external over safety concerns.

Cities across the US have been cleaning up rubble and boarding up windows after another night of protests over police brutality against African-Americans sparked by the death of George Floyd.

As cities from New York to Los Angeles prepare for more unrest, despite calls from both officials and peaceful protesters for an end to violence, there have been warnings that the mass demonstrations could lead to new coronavirus outbreaks. The US already has by far the world's highest number of cases and deaths.

The mayor of Atlanta warned residents that there was "still a pandemic in America that’s killing black and brown people at higher numbers".

In Minneapolis, the city where Floyd died, African-Americans make up 35% of coronavirus cases despite representing less than a fifth of the city's population, according to the New York Times., external

Job losses are also reported to have hit black and latino workers harder than the rest of the population.

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From tomorrow, some schools in England are due to reopen.

The exact rules will vary, but head teachers have been working out how best to minimise risks for pupils, staff and parents.

Nursery and pre-school children plus pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 will be the first to go back.

But head teachers have been told to focus on priority pupils - vulnerable children and those of critical workers - across all year groups.

And the government has also published guidance for children with special educational needs or a disability, external.

A BBC Breakfast survey of 150 councils revealed many are not guaranteeing every primary school will reopen.

Read more here.

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German-Russian pianist Igor Levit has successfully performed one of the longest compositions in history to raise awareness for the plight of musicians during the coronavirus pandemic.

The concert had been expected to take up to 20 hours and was livestreamed on Levit's Twitter account, as well as by Germany's Der Spiegel magazine and The New Yorker. In the end, the performance lasted less than 16 hours.

The piece, Vexations, was composed in 1893 by Erik Satie and is played 840 times in a row. Levit told the New Yorker that for him, Vexations represented "a silent scream", external.

“I honestly don’t really know what is going to happen. But I believe I will feel, while doing it, kind of similar to what I go through now. There will be ups, there will be downs, there will be devastation, there will [be] joy, there will be literal pain," he told the magazine.

Completing the performance in the early hours of Sunday morning local time, Levit said he was "Done. Happy. Fulfilled. Grateful. And so damn high."

You can watch the whole performance here, if you have 15 hours and 34 minutes.

Demonstrations earlier today in London over the death of George Floyd in US police custody attracted thousands of people.

Floyd, a black man, died when a white officer held him down by pressing a knee into his neck last Monday in Minneapolis, even as he said he couldn't breathe.

There were concerns about the flouting of social distancing rules at the protest. The Met Police said officers were present and were engaging with those in attendance.

Reverend Sally Hitchiner, associate vicar at St Martin-in-the-Fields, near where the protest started, said: "Clearly they're not following lockdown and social distancing, but I think there's a huge amount of passion there and that's overriding their concerns.

"It's an issue that requires passion but at the same time there's a huge amount of risk in what they're doing."

There was also a march in the city of Manchester.

Read more about what happened in the final moments of George Floyd's life.

Germany's air force is medically evacuating three policemen and one soldier from Afghanistan.

According to German media, two of the policemen and the soldier all tested positive for coronavirus, while the third policeman displayed symptoms but tested negative.

The news comes as war-ravaged Afghanistan raised the alarm about its ability to deal with the spread of the virus.

The country has recorded more than 15,000 cases so far, and more than half of the samples taken in the last 24 hours were positive, the health ministry said. The capital Kabul is the worst-affected area.

Deputy Health Minister Wahid Majroh has called for a return to strict lockdown measures, which were loosened for the Muslim festival of Eid on 24 May.

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The deputy chief medical officer for England Dr Jenny Harries has echoed remarks made by her fellow health official Jonathan Van-Tam that lockdown rules are clear and apply to everyone, in the wake of the Dominic Cummings row.

Cummings, the chief adviser to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, travelled 260 miles from London to Durham during the height of lockdown but Johnson's government said he had not broken the rules, despite an outcry.

At today's daily coronavirus briefing, Harries said she "absolutely" agreed with Van-Tam.

She said that she would always try to follow the rules "from a level of personal and professional integrity".

Harries said: "The important thing is they are rules for all of us, and it's really important as we go through into this next critical phase that we do follow them to the best of our abilities."

The airline Emirates has said that it will have to carry out job cuts due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The company has not given any details about the number of staff or roles likely to be affected.

"We reviewed all possible scenarios in order to sustain our business operations, but have come to the conclusion that we unfortunately have to say goodbye to a few of the wonderful people that worked with us," a spokesman was quoted as saying.

The state-owned airline, which is based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, employs almost 60,000 people.

Thousands of jobs could go if Emirates follows the lead of other major airlines. British Airways says it will cut up to 12,000 jobs because of the pandemic, while budget carrier EasyJet could cut up to 30% of its workforce - 4,500 jobs - due to the collapse in air travel.

As we reported earlier, officials in various US cities that have seen mass protests over the death of George Floyd have been warning about the risk that coronavirus could spread at these demonstrations.

As the mayor of Minneapolis - where Mr Floyd, an unarmed black man, died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes - put it: "We have two crises that are sandwiched on top of one [another]."

That's not just a concern in the US - there were large protests today in some European cities, including London, where crowds did not obey social distancing.

"Whether they're fired up or not, that doesn't prevent them from getting the virus," Bradley Pollock, head of the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of California, told the Associated Press news agency.

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There have been more than 270,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and more than 38,000 people have now lost their lives, according to government figures.

The numbers only include people who have been tested, however, and the total number of deaths relating to coronavirus is thought to be higher.

See how many confirmed cases there are in your area.

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Sweden has not reported any new coronavirus deaths for the first time in over two months.

No new fatalities were reported on Sunday, although there are often delays in reporting deaths over weekends.

Sweden chose a controversial approach to the coronavirus outbreak and did not impose a lockdown, unlike the rest of Scandinavia. But its death toll from the virus is also by far the highest in Scandinavia, with 4,395 deaths.

Earlier this week, Norway and Denmark announced they would open tourism between the two countries, but restrictions remain in place for Swedes.

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Glasgow Warriors' player-coach Petrus du Plessis says he "wouldn't have been happy to just sit at home" after returning to the National Health Service amid the pandemic.

The 38-year-old South African registered as a respiratory physiotherapist during rugby's suspension - a decade on from leaving the NHS.

"It all comes back to you, all the stuff that you learned at university," he told BBC Radio Scotland.

"I didn't do it because I want to be called a hero. I wanted to do it to help the NHS. I was sitting at home and I've got a set of skills in physiotherapy.

"I'm really glad I came back to the NHS, it's been brilliant joining up with the team."

Reality Check

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The government says it has reached its target to increase testing capacity to 200,000 per day by the end of May - its figure for Saturday was 205,634.

That means the various labs doing tests say they could handle that number of tests. The actual number of tests being done is a lot lower than that (115,000 on Saturday).

Even in capacity terms, the government was a long way short of its target last week - on Thursday its capacity was about 165,000.

Then on Friday and Saturday it was boosted by an extra 40,000 in testing capacity. This is for antibody tests that tell if people have had the virus before rather than if they have the virus now. They will primarily be used on healthcare staff at first.

But the government’s figures say that the actual number of these tests that have been processed so far is 0.

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There was positive news in Poland as the country recorded the fewest coronavirus infections in two months.

Sunday's figures released by the health ministry show there were 219 new cases recorded, down from 416 on Saturday.

The number of virus-related deaths fell to three from 10 on Saturday. The total number of cases so far is 23,786 with 1,064 deaths.

A UK cancer charity chief has told the BBC he is concerned about the new guidance for those who were previously shielding.

Vulnerable people in England and Wales were advised to stay home from when the coronavirus lockdown began - but will be able to go outdoors again from Monday.

Alasdair Rankin, Blood Cancer UK's director of research and policy, said: "It's a surprise to all of us in the community. Is it good news? Of course. Those shielding with blood cancer have had a difficult time over the past few weeks. They're anxious about the future and what that brings. What they need to know is that they're safe and that the guidance provided is clear and they can understand it.

"This has been a bit of bolt from the blue. It's not helpful to bring changes really quickly that we don't know the evidence behind. We'd like to see the evidence the decision is based on and for the government to be really transparent for people with blood cancer and other conditions as to why changes have been made to the guidance."

He added: "What we would say is talk to your doctor about your own personal circumstances before you make a change. People with blood cancer need to move away from guidance that everybody has to shield for an indefinite time, but it needs to be based on clinical evidence."

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South Africa has had one of the world's toughest coronavirus lockdowns - people have even been barred from buying alcohol.

The reason? To enable the police and hospitals to focus their attention on tackling the coronavirus by freeing up beds and reducing domestic violence.

Our correspondent in South Africa, Andrew Harding, says police and doctors believe the ban has had a dramatic impact on casualty admissions.

But brewers and wine makers complain they're being driven out of business. The government has also lost a fortune in tax revenues.

Apparently there's been a huge rise in home-brewing, with pineapple beer especially popular.

But, as of Monday, the ban will be lifted and people will be able to buy alcohol for the first time in two months.

Yet there are restrictions. Sales will only be allowed from Monday to Thursday - not at weekends - and whatever's bought will only be for consumption at home.