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We're still digesting the slew of data from the UK's Office for National Statistics this morning.

Its analysis has also found that deaths due to dementia have been higher than average during the coronavirus pandemic.

The ONS figures suggest a third of deaths above the expected level for this time of year were not registered as being related to coronavirus.

Between 7 March and 1 May, recorded deaths were more than 50% higher than the five-year average.

Older age groups had the most elevated risk of dying from non-Covid-19 causes.

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As more and more European countries ease border controls, the EU is trying to co-ordinate their actions.

• The European Commission, which drafts EU laws, wants the 27 member states to lift their internal border controls by 1 July. Most are in the Schengen zone, where citizens enjoy passport-free travel, but the pandemic brought border lockdowns across Europe. EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson announced the plan on Euronews, and the states’ home affairs ministers are discussing easing border controls today
• The EU makes a big distinction between internal and external borders; the talk is not about lifting controls for non-EU travellers arriving in the bloc. Some border controls have already been lifted. Today the Czech Republic is lifting its controls with neighbours Austria, Germany, Hungary and Slovakia
• The Irish government is expected to approve the second phase of a roadmap for exiting the lockdown. It would allow some workplaces and small shops to reopen; extend the distance restriction on exercise from 5km to 20km; and let people visit the homes of those isolating, but with social distancing
• The world-famous Vienna Philharmonic is to give its first post-lockdown concert - Beethoven’s 5th Symphony - at Vienna’s Musikverein concert hall. It has capacity for 2,000 people, but under social distancing rules only 100 people can attend.

Will Grant
BBC News, Mexico and Central America Correspondent

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Anger over the death of a young builder, Giovanni Lopez, has spilt over into clashes between police and protesters calling for justice on the streets of Guadalajara in Mexico.

Riot police fired tear gas as some of the most radical demonstrators smashed windows, sprayed graffiti in the city’s historic centre, and set fire to several police cars.

Video emerged of one police officer being soaked with gasoline and set alight by a masked protester.

The protesters are furious over the death of Lopez who was arrested in May, apparently for not wearing a facemask, and then subsequently died from injuries he received while in police custody.

When his family went to the hospital to find him, they were told he had received a head trauma injury and they say he had also been shot in the leg.

The governor of the state of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro, who has pushed for more stringent measures on tackling the spread of coronavirus, blamed supporters of the president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, for the unrest.

However, a number of high-profile figures in Mexico, including at least one former president, have called on him to do more, including launch a proper investigation and for the officers involved to be detained.

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Paul Grant and Kafui Okpattah
BBC 5 Live investigations team

Hundreds of people have attended three all-night raves in London, even though social distancing rules and government regulations clearly prohibit them from taking place.

BBC Radio 5 Live's Investigations Unit was tipped off about raves being advertised on a private Instagram page.

Police say they attended two of the gatherings but no arrests were made, and the rave's organisers say they're a community of people exercising to house music while distancing.

Londoners aren't the only ones going to forbidden raves. Earlier this week, police in Berlin had to break up a "floating party protest" - where about 1,500 people took over hundreds of boats, to show their support for the city's club and rave scene.

Read more about London's lockdown raves here.

Robert Cuffe
BBC head of statistics

How many people have it?

The number of infections in homes in England is falling.

The Office for National Stastics estimates that 1 in 1,000 (0.1%) people in the England have coronavirus in community settings. That equates to 53,000 people.

This is considerably lower than last week's estimate of 133,000 and 137,000 and 148,00 in the two weeks before that.

There are wide margins of error around each of these figures (the 133,000 could be between 62,000 and 250,000), so it’s hard to be sure that figures have halved in a week but the ONS are confident that the trend is downwards.

New infections per day

The ONS further estimate that there are about 5,600 new infections per day in homes in England.

Last week's was 7,700, the week before 8,700.

One in five (22%) report experiencing symptoms on the day of the test.

This is only for households in England. Getting tests from households means this doesn’t cover infections in places like hospitals, care homes or prisons.

Self-adminstering a swab test is not easy, and so the pilot may be missing some current/new infections because of poorly completed swabs.

This week, the ONS analysed data from 19,723 households. Among those households, there were 21 infections (down from 36 in the last set of figures).

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BBC Radio 4

The UK government should implement a mass coronavirus testing programme, former prime minister Tony Blair has said.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Blair said this would give a clear idea of who in the population has the disease.

The ex-PM said the government was relying on targeted testing, which he insisted was "going to make it much more difficult to get out of lockdown".

And he said it would be "virtually impossible" to make test and trace work effectively unless it was combined with mass testing.

Blair said mass testing was the "single most important preparation" the government could make to give the UK an effective containment strategy.

"My anxiety is what happens if there is a resurgence of the disease in October or November. At that point you've got to have in place the ability for mass testing," he said.

Read about how contact-tracing works here.

Adam has been shielding for three months - which means he hasn't left his home at all.

He had a lung transplant, which means he's immune suppressed. If he were to get the coronavirus, he says, it would be "game over".

So how does he balance his fear of getting the virus with his desire to finally go outside?

Watch his interview with the BBC below.

Lockdown restrictions have begun easing across the UK, but there are still limits on what we are able to do.

Can you start a new relationship with social distancing in place? Can you go on a business trip abroad? What's an asymptomatic "silent spreader"? How long are you ill for if you catch the virus? How dangerous is it if you have asthma?

Click here to get the answers to those and many more questions.

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Premiership Rugby - the top professional rugby union league in England - hopes to restart its 2019-20 season on 15 August, the league's chief executive has said.

There have been no matches played since 8 March because of the coronavirus pandemic, but clubs were cleared to start non-contact training this week.

It is the latest sport in England to set out plans to return.

Football's Premier League is set to return on 17 June, and cricket will take place again from 8 July when England begin a series against West Indies - both behind closed doors.

In the US, the remainder of the NBA season will be played at Disney World in Florida from 31 July.

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Countries across Europe are keen to reopen their borders in time for the summer tourist season, but while some states are working together it has not yet been organised across the EU.

European Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson says she wants all EU states on Friday to agree a date for the end of June.

Italy opened its borders on Wednesday but not everyone is keen to come. Austria lifted its border restrictions on Wednesday night to all its neighbours bar Italy.

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Spain plans to reopen its borders on 1 July only to neighbours France and Portugal. It is not yet ready to open up to other countries, so any attempt by the EU to co-ordinate a reopening will prove tricky.

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Belgium is one of the EU states expected to open its borders on 15 June. So if all goes well (i.e. no second wave), you may soon be able to enjoy a Belgian beer and marvel at the Manneken Pis again.

France is also hoping that tourists will return and is pushing a plan to lift all the borders in the Schengen passport-free zone on 1 July.

Szu Ping Chan
Business Reporter, BBC News

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"Stay as positive as you can and stop fixating on things that don't work out," says Scott Wilson-Laing who graduated in 2008, when a global financial crisis threw much of the world into recession.

Now, Wilson-Laing runs a distillery that he has repurposed to make sanitisers during the pandemic.

Like 2008, 2020 is a tough year for graduates - about 400,000 students finishing their degrees this year have seen opportunities evaporate overnight.

So, we asked graduates from the Class of 2008 what advice they have for the Class of 2020?

The big takeaways: all experience matters so pick up as many skills as you can along the way; don't be afraid to ask for help; and take advantage of things you take for granted - such as social media.

Read more.

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BBC Radio 4

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said England's new compulsory face-coverings rule for public transport applies to "when you're in the vehicle itself".

Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that police officers, Network Rail workers, Transport for London workers and volunteers would be encouraging people to put on their face coverings when entering stations.

He said it would be "wise" to do so, but added: "The actual condition of transit, the condition of carriage, is actually when you're in the vehicle itself."

Shapps went on to explain that "often platforms are outside and that changes the risk profile".

Asked why the rule is not also being introduced for shops, the transport secretary said there was a "larger chance" of being next to someone for between 10 and 30 minutes on public transport - rather than in a shop where "you're going to move on".

Almost £7bn ($5.5bn) has been raised at a virtual global vaccine summit hosted by the UK, to immunise 300 million children.

The summit saw pledges by more than 50 countries and individuals like billionaire Bill Gates, who donated $1.6bn (£1.3bn) from his foundation. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged £1.65bn over the next five years.

Johnson said up to eight million lives would be saved as a result of the efforts, which raised funds for Gavi, a global alliance of public and private sector organisations promoting vaccination among the world's poorest communities.

The money will help immunise children against diseases like polio, diphtheria and measles over five years.

Read more about it here.

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London Mayor Sadiq Khan says the UK government's delay in making face coverings mandatory on public transport may have led to more people catching coronavirus.

The government announced on Thursday that coverings must be worn on buses, trams, trains, coaches, aircraft and ferries in England from 15 June.

Khan told BBC Breakfast he had been asking the government to introduce the changes for "more than two months".

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said Khan was "disagreeing with the scientists" in holding that view and that introducing the rule earlier would have been a "moot point".

He said it was not necessary earlier because transport usage was only at 5% of usual rates and scientists had not given guidance either way on whether coverings would help.

The rule is being introduced from 15 June because that is when non-essential retail shops are set to open, meaning transport usage will increase, Shapps said.

He added that the impact of face coverings would still only be "marginal" and was not as important as maintaining social distancing.

Chester Zoo, the most visited zoo in the UK, could close for good because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The zoo's elephant keeper, James Edwards, says they're faced with the huge costs of running a large zoo - animals that are expensive to care for - while not being able to welcome any visitors.

Watch his interview with the BBC below.

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BBC Radio 4

People who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus crisis should be redeployed into the "green industries of the future", Labour's shadow business secretary Ed Miliband has said.

The Labour Party has today launched a consultation on how to create what it calls an "ambitious green" economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Miliband called for the unemployed to be retrained and redeployed to a "huge" number of green jobs, such as insulating homes, planting trees and installing electric car charging ports.

He said: "I think we owe it to people to build back better, not just to build back the old economy of the past."

Miliband also suggested the government should be more "strategic" in the way it offers financial support to businesses.

"You should be willing to intervene, but to do so in a way that ties people to climate change commitments," he said.

Covid-19 can be a vicious illness, and for some who have it seriously, recovery will take some time.

The Seacole Centre in Surrey opened to cater for Covid patients and others who need extra medical support. It’s the only hospital of its kind in England and is on the same site as the former military rehab centre, Headley Court.

The BBC's Sima Kotecha went to meet some of the patients.

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During lockdown in the UK have you spotted animals in unusual places, filmed birds singing their dawn chorus, or taken photos of clear, pollution-free night skies?

If so, scientists across UK universities want you to send in your pictures and videos for The Earth Project, which will look at how nature has capitalised on humans being out of the way.

Phil Manning, from the University of Manchester, says they hope the project will "remind us in the future of what life and our relationship with nature could be," and that it can be used to push the case for greater sustainability.

Read the full story here.

As many countries are easing restrictions, officials are warning that negligence can lead to a virus resurgence - and a second wave.

That means you should still be taking active measures to protect yourself - and to avoid infecting others should you be a silent spreader.

Here's a reminder of the symptoms, and what to do and not to do.

The Pacific island of Fiji has declared itself free from coronavirus, after its last known infected patient was given the all-clear.

Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said its success was a result of "answered prayers, hard work and affirmation of science".

Fiji was among a handful of Pacific Islands struck by the virus. The first case was recorded there in mid-March, sparking panic across the nation.

The Pacific Islands were initially seen as among the world's most vulnerable to the disease due to their under-resourced health infrastructure system. But countries acted quickly to close their borders and shut down tourism - and many have remained successful in keeping the virus at bay.