If you're joining us from the UK here's a quick update on the main stories so far today:

• The UK has recorded its lowest daily rise in the number of coronavirus deaths since lockdown
• New rules requiring most people arriving in the UK to self-isolate for 14 days have come into effect
• The government has extended coronavirus testing to all staff and residents at 6,000 care homes for adults with disabilities in England
• BP is to cut 10,000 jobs following a global slump in the demand for oil because of the pandemic

Here's more on those stories and other things you might have missed.

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A footballer has been remanded in custody after being convicted of coughing at police officers and telling them he had coronavirus.

James Hurst, 28, flew into a rage in the garden of a woman's home in Glasgow's Drumchapel in April. He admitted acting in a threatening or abusive manner towards the officers.

A court heard that Hurst, an ex-West Brom and Wrexham defender who now plays for non-league Hednesford Town, initially contacted the police claiming to be the victim of domestic abuse, but was aggressive when officers became aware of a possible outstanding warrant against him.

Prosecutor Mark Allan said: "He immediately stated 'I've got Covid, I'm going to cough and spit all over you'. At that point he began to cough in the faces of both officers as they were placing handcuffs on him."

Sheriff Tony Kelly deferred sentencing until the end of the month.

New York City officially begins the first phase of its four-part reopening today.

Here's a glimpse of the city's first steps toward a new normal after nearly three months in lockdown.

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Dr Amit Patel, co-author of an influential study on hydroxychloroquine and its effects on coronavirus patients, has left his faculty posting at the University of Utah.

In a statement to the BBC, the university said his unpaid adjunct appointment was officially terminated by "mutual agreement" on Friday.

It comes days after Dr Patel and two other co-authors retracted their study, which found that taking hydroxychloroquine increased the risk of death in coronavirus patients. The group said they could no longer vouch for its veracity after the healthcare firm behind their data would not hand over the dataset for independent analysis.

The study's findings influenced the World Health Organization's decision to suspend testing on the anti-malaria drug, but the UN body has since resumed trials.

Read more about hydroxychloroquine and the controversy behind it.

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As the US continues its march towards reopening the economy, some states, including Texas and Florida, are still seeing an increase in new infections.

Nationally, confirmed infections will soon reach two million, as new cases decline overall.

On Sunday, Florida's cases surpassed 1,000 for the fifth day in a row, bringing the state's total close to 64,000 known infections. Daily cases have not been reported at this level in Florida since April, when the virus was at its peak.

But the percentage of positive Covid-19 tests has declined over the same period, suggesting the rise may be linked to increased testing. There have been more than one million tests administered in the southern state thus far.

Texas, too, has seen a rise in reported cases in recent days. After a steady decline beginning in May, cases have moved in an upward trend since around 26 May, about three weeks after retail stores and restaurants were able to open, with limited capacity. There have been at least 75,408 cases in Texas confirmed so far.

Reality Check

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: “If you look at the proportion of people in the UK who have sadly died in care homes, it is significantly lower than comparable countries across Europe.”

The government has continually stressed the difficulties of making meaningful international comparisons of coronavirus deaths and, if anything, the caveats around comparing care home deaths are even greater.

A report, external from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control a month ago suggested that the figures for coronavirus deaths in English care homes were low by European standards, but that figure would be sensitive to the amount of testing being carried out in care homes, which was relatively low early in the outbreak.

If you look at the ONS figures, external for coronavirus deaths up to 22 May, 29% of those in England and Wales who had coronavirus mentioned on their death certificates died in care homes.

But the difficulty of making classifications in this area was highlighted in another report from the ONS, external last week. It looked at non-Covid-19 deaths compared with a five-year average and analysed what the people who were dying from things other than coronavirus were dying of.

Two thirds of those deaths were due to dementia, Alzheimer's or a category called “symptoms, signs and ill-defined conditions”, which generally indicates old age and frailty. It may be difficult to spot the symptoms of coronavirus if these people had in fact been infected.

You can read more about why international comparisons are difficult here.

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Fashion brand Mulberry plans to cut one in four jobs across its entire workforce - with most job losses in the UK.

The firm, which is best known for its leather goods, employs 1,400 people, most of them in the UK.

In a statement it said it would start reopening British stores from 15 June.

But it said social distancing measures and reduced tourist and footfall levels would continue to affect its income.

Mulberry was among those companies that switched production from luxury goods to medical equipment to help tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

• Read more here

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has called on Brazil to share information about the country's outbreak "in a consistent and transparent way".

Brazil has the world's second-highest number of cases and has recently had more new deaths than any other nation. But authorities have been criticised after months of Covid-19 data were removed from a government website.

The WHO's health emergencies chief, Michael Ryan, told reporters it was vital that information was shared with the agency and with Brazil's citizens to keep them safe.

"They need to understand what's happening. They need to understand where the virus is. They need to know how to manage the risks to them," said Dr Ryan. "We trust that any confusions that may exist at the moment can be resolved."

Brazil's health ministry has said it will now only be reporting cases and deaths for the past 24 hours, no longer giving a total figure as most countries do. President Jair Bolsonaro said the cumulative data did not reflect the current picture.

Chris Mason
Political Correspondent

"The relationship of a journalist to a politician should be that of a dog to a lamppost,” goes the old saying attributed to the American journalist and critic H. L. Mencken.

There is a necessary friction between those in charge and those reporting on them and scrutinising them.

But I was very struck tonight by several examples of spikiness in the government news conference.

The Health Secretary Matt Hancock pointedly praised the "excellent questions from the public. The next questions are from the media".

And he stared down at his lectern when asked by Sky's Beth Rigby about a trade-off between deaths and reopening the economy.

"There just isn't a trade-off," he said.

In a later exchange with The Guardian's Haroon Siddique, he was pulled up by Mr Siddique for failing to pronounce his name correctly.

Mr Hancock apologised, and pointed out "my dyslexia got ahead of me".

Andrew Walker
World Service economics correspondent

A new forecast from the World Bank predicts the global economy will contract this year by 5.2% and the declines will be more widespread than at any time in the last 150 years.

The World Bank’s president, David Malpass, said the coronavirus pandemic was jeopardising decades of progress in the developing world. He said many developing countries were fighting on two fronts - the domestic outbreak of the disease and the economic spill-over from deep recessions in rich nations.

The Bank says developing economies as a group will decline this year, the first time that has happened in at least six decades. The report also says incomes per person will fall in a larger proportion of countries than at any time since 1870. The downturn, the Bank warns, will tip millions of people into extreme poverty.

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Although the coronavirus outbreak in Europe is improving, "globally it is worsening", says World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

At a coronavirus briefing earlier today, he told reporters that more than 100,000 cases had been reported in nine of the past 10 days, and that 75% of yesterday's cases came from just 10 countries - most of them in the Americas and South Asia.

But despite striking a sombre tone, Dr Tedros said the WHO was encouraged by "positive signs" in several countries.

"In these countries, the biggest threat now is complacency," he added. "Results from studies to see how much of the population has been exposed to the virus show that most people globally are still susceptible to infection."

Today's press conference was held by Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who was joined by David Pearson, the new chair of the government's coronavirus social care taskforce.

Here's what they told us:

• Despite some speculation over the weekend that the R-number (the rate of reproduction of the virus) is above one in some regions, the government's official figures estimate it is below one in every region. This means each infected person passes the virus, on average, to fewer than one other person
• The government will be drawing up a new plan for social care as lockdown eases. The new taskforce will connect government, local authorities and care providers and focus on infection prevention
• All old-age care home residents and staff have been tested - and this is now being rolled out to 6,000 other adult care homes
• Mr Hancock says it is safe for families to put their relatives into care homes. He said the proportion of care home deaths in the UK is lower than in other countries
• He also denied that, when thinking about lifting lockdown measures, there is a trade off between deaths and the economy. He said a second spike in cases would be very damaging to the economy

The briefing has now drawn to a close, but a Daily Mail journalist asked why some countries have a rule that people should try to stay 1m apart, while in the UK, social distancing rules call for a 2m distance.

Matt Hancock says the distance is "based on the science" and the closer you are the more likely you are to pass on the virus, especially when face-to-face.

“To keep the R below one we need to keep social distancing measures in place," he says, adding that it is important to look at the range of measures as a whole.

However, he adds that the government keeps the 2m rule under review all the time and Sage - the body of scientists advising he government - has been looking at the issue recently.

Hancock is also asked whether he expects schools to be able to reopen fully in September.

He replies that the "current working plan" is that secondary schools won't fully open until September at the earliest.

He adds that schools and the economy must reopen "safely" in a way that doesn't lead to the spread of the virus.

Matt Hancock is asked why people from ethnic minorities are "disproportionately" dying from Covid-19 and are more likely to be punished for breaking lockdown rules.

He responds that all factors, including comorbidity, housing and occupation, must be looked into. When conclusions are reached, the government will "absolutely" put measures in place, Hancock says.

Chris Mason
Political Correspondent

The Health Secretary Matt Hancock was notably spiky when asked by Beth Rigby of Sky News about a trade off between reopening the economy and the coronavirus death rate.

Mr Hancock repeated that in his view there was no such trade off - because a second surge in cases would be economically damaging.

Reality Check

On 15 May, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: "We'll test every resident and every member of staff in our elderly care homes in England between now and early June."

Now the government has said it has met its target, having provided 1,071,103 test kits to 8,984 care homes.

But that is kits sent out rather than tests done, and the government doesn’t reveal the proportion of test kits that are returned for processing.

Mr Hancock did say every resident and member of staff would be tested, but thegovernment’s roadmap for easing lockdown, external said that they would all be “offered” tests.

The National Care Forum, which represents some not-for-profit care homes, said that as of 2 June, 90% of the care homes they surveyed had been tested, external, but that almost half of those had received null or inconclusive test results and a number were still waiting for results to return.

Paul Brand from ITV asks whether it is now safe for people to send their loved ones into care homes.

Matt Hancock says with the measures the government has put in place it is, adding: "It is clear that the epidemic in care homes is coming under control" and "strong infection control procedures" are in place.

He says he understands why people are worried but the government will continue to strengthen these measures.

David Pearson adds that the government will continue to learn from evidence across the world and be "vigilant" about the future.

Nick Triggle
Health Correspondent

The appointment of David Pearson – a well-respected and senior social care director – will be welcomed by the sector.

A key role will be to provide a more joined-up approach across central government, councils and the private companies that run many care homes.

A big complaint locally is that central government has been too top-down – issuing guidance and instruction with too little consultation and forethought.

But the key challenge he faces is containing outbreaks.

In time, it has become clear people who are infected but not showing symptoms - whether staff or residents – are a key driver of outbreaks.

Identifying these people will require mass testing being repeated constantly in the coming months.

That will not be easy.

It has taken until now to provide tests to all staff and residents in elderly care homes – those for younger adults are now just being offered them for people without symptoms.

Matt Hancock is asked about some scientists' fears that easing the lockdown is coming to quickly and what level of deaths must be reached before the economy is opened more fully. He answers that there is "no trade-off" between health and the economy.

It's "simplistic" to say otherwise, he adds, saying that a second coronavirus spike would be "hugely damaging" for the economy too.

Nick Triggle
Health Correspondent

The challenge facing the government is that even with the extra testing in place, not all infections appear to be getting picked up.

Today’s data shows there were 1,205 new infections diagnosed, but surveillance suggests the true figure may be five times higher.

Some of these will be asymptomatic cases – people who do not show symptoms – but the concern remains that some people are simply not coming forward.

Identifying these will be crucial to keep on top of the virus.