There have been a further seven deaths of people who tested positive for coronavirus in Scotland - but First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says the figures show "further indication of a clear downward trend".

Speaking at Scotland's daily briefing, she said a total of 15,653 people have now tested positive for Covid-19, an increase of 14 from Monday.

There were 1,011 patients in hospital with a suspected or confirmed case - down 31, with 21 being treated in intensive care.

There have been a total of 2,422 deaths.

There had been two consecutive days of zero deaths registered - but Sturgeon says the new figures are "not a surprise" given the lag in registering deaths at weekends.

Last Tuesday 12 deaths were reported.

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People in Wales are being asked to wear three-layer face coverings in situations where social distancing is not possible - including on public transport.

The recommendation was announced by Health Minister Vaughan Gething at a news conference on Tuesday.

It follows a similar statement by the World Health Organization last week.

The UK government has announced that from 15 June people must wear face coverings while travelling on public transport in England. From the same date, hospital visitors and outpatients in England will also have to wear face coverings and staff must use surgical masks.

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Figures show that 52% of primary schools in England opened their doors to pupils in Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 when the lockdown was eased last week.

According to the Department for Education, 11% of primary school children attended classes in schools last week.

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said he was encouraged by the number of schools which reopened.

Williamson is due to speak in the House of Commons shortly, and is expected to confirm that the government is dropping its plan to have all English primary school pupils return to classes for the final four weeks of the summer term.

Here's what parents think.

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Malaysia has detained nearly 270 Rohingya refugees whose boat had drifted for nearly two months because of coronavirus lockdowns.

They fled southern Bangladesh in April but had been unable to dock. Dozens of those on board tried to swim to land when their trawler was intercepted by the Malaysian coastguard on Monday.

In recent years large numbers of Muslim Rohingya have fled Myanmar, where they face persecution.

More than one million have settled in neighbouring Bangladesh, but many have gone to Malaysia, which has been seen as a safe haven. However Malaysia has now refused to allow refugee boats to land, citing the pandemic as a reason.

On 31 May an elderly Rohingya man became the first person to die from Covid-19 in a refugee camp in Bangladesh.

At least 29 refugees have tested positive for the virus in the camps, although very little testing has been carried out.

Robert Cuffe
BBC head of statistics

Since the middle of March, just over 200,000 people have died in the UK - that figure is nearly 64,000 more than would be expected at this time of year.

This number is larger than the deaths total we hear announced by the UK government in its daily briefing because that figure only includes people who died after testing positive for coronavirus.

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This figure of 63,708 includes people who died with undiagnosed Covid-19 or who are victims of the overall strain that has been put on healthcare and on society.

Just over 11,000 people died in the last week of May. That’s fewer than in previous weeks, so the trends are going in the right direction, but that doesn’t mean the figures or the country are back to normal.

The number of deaths is still about 20% above what we’d expect.

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Marriage ceremonies across India have been put on hold because of the lockdown.

However, some couples have chosen to swap their large-scale weddings for intimate affairs.

Could this be the new normal in India, where weddings are big business? Or will normal service resume once lockdown restrictions are eased?

The BBC's Geeta Pandey has been speaking to some of those whose wedding plans have been impacted by the coronavirus.

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Here are some of today's coronavirus headlines from around the world...

• The plan for all primary school years in England to go back to school before the end of term is to be dropped by the government
• An apparent surge in traffic outside hospitals from August 2019 in the Chinese city of Wuhan suggests the coronavirus may have hit the area earlier than reported, a study says
• The West Indies cricket team have arrived in England and will now be in quarantine in a "bio-secure" environment in Manchester before a three-Test series that begins on 8 July
• New Zealand's research institute in Antarctica is scaling back the number of projects planned for the upcoming season, in an effort to keep the continent free of coronavirus
• The mayor of South Africa's biggest city, Johannesburg, has gone into self-isolation after a member of his staff tested positive for coronavirus

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Figures released by the UK Treasury show 8.9 million workers are having 80% of their monthly salary (up to a maximum of £2,500) covered by the government's furlough scheme, at a cost of £19.6bn.

The programme was introduced at the start of the coronavirus lockdown in a bid to avoid the loss of millions of jobs because firms couldn't trade. It was originally intended to last until the end of July, but has been extended until the end of October.

In addition, a scheme aimed at helping self-employed workers has had 2.6 million claims, worth £7.5bn.

For more on the government's schemes to support employment, we have an explainer here.

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
BBC Tokyo correspondent

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In Japan, like elsewhere, there has been a big increase in cycling during the Covid-19 pandemic. Why? Office workers keen to avoid the crowded subway systems and a big increase in home food deliveries (among other factors).

In response, the government has approved an enforcement order tightening regulations on dangerous bicycle riding. The strange thing about these new regulations is what they prohibit: ringing a bell to annoy other cyclists, unnecessary braking and blocking pathways.

As a daily cyclist in Tokyo these are not what come immediately to mind as primary threats to public safety. Don’t get me wrong, there is plenty of dangerous cycling in Japan. Lots of cyclists barrel down sidewalks, which is a legal grey area, and many completely ignore traffic lights, which is not. Little is done to stop them.

However, from 30 June, if you’re caught ringing your bell too much you could end up having to take a mandatory traffic safety course, or face a US$500 (£395) fine, unless you’re under 14 years old – in which case carry on ringing!

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Sarah and Tom had been on a few dates together, but when the UK lockdown began on 23 March they had to make a decision about their relationship.

They could either let it fizzle out or take the plunge. They decided to take the plunge.

Here, Sarah from Loughborough and Tom from Leicester share their experiences of what it was like to be in the early stages of a relationship at a time when you couldn't see one another.

Hannah Richardson
BBC News education and social affairs reporter

Today's expected announcement on schools makes formal what head teachers and governors in England have said for some time: it's not possible to massively increase the space each class needs to meet social distancing rules and bring everyone back to primary schools in England - there's not enough room.

While No 10 and the education secretary pushed on with the plans, they lost the support of some groups of parents, people working in schools and teaching unions.

There are concerns that having more pupils in school will contribute to an increase in Covid-19 infections, both among pupils and staff and in their communities, while the science is inconclusive.

Against this are balanced the real fears of parents, about how on earth they are going to manage with their youngsters at home for another two or three months - minimum - let alone keep up to date with their educational needs.

There are growing voices for the government to start to think more strategically and more creatively.

A national plan is being called for, one that realises the scale of the problem and matches the scale of the support the economy has seen.

Ethirajan Anbarasan
South Asia editor, BBC World Service

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The Supreme Court in India has given the authorities 15 days to transport home tens of thousands of migrant workers stranded due to the coronavirus lockdown.

Millions lost their jobs and were left without any transport to get home when strict restrictions were imposed with four hours notice in late March.

Many walked or cycled hundreds of kilometres from cities to reach their villages in other parts of the country. Scores died through exhaustion, illness and traffic accidents.

The Supreme Court took up the matter after the media highlighted several tragic stories.

The court has also asked officials to withdraw police complaints against workers for violating lockdown rules.

Since last month the authorities have been running special trains and buses to transport the labourers. Now the challenge for the government is to find employment for these workers in their home states.

Read more on the Indian migrants dying to get home.

British playwright James Graham has been telling the BBC's Hardtalk about the challenges of writing a new musical with Sir Elton John during lockdown.

Graham says he and Sir Elton have been collaborating over the video conferencing app Zoom, but the coronavirus pandemic has made it harder to write the show about US televangelists in the 1980s.

They hope to complete the project during lockdown so it can hopefully be seen next year - if theatres are allowed to reopen.

You can watch Graham's full interview on BBC iPlayer.

Unions have welcomed the news that the government is set to ditch its plans for all primary school pupils in England to return before the end of term.

Paul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union the NAHT, said the plan would have presented "unsolvable practical barriers".

Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: "The 'ambition' to bring back all primary year groups for a month before the end of the summer term was a case of the government over-promising something that wasn't deliverable."

And Patrick Roach, general secretary of the NASUWT teaching union, said it had been "abundantly clear" the government's dates for reopening schools were "ill-considered, premature and unworkable".

Read our story on the latest school developments here.

The West Indies cricket team arrived in Manchester earlier this morning ahead of their test series against England, which starts next month.

They are the first international sports team to fly into Britain since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

All the players were tested for Covid-19 before they left and there were no positive results. The team will spend three weeks in quarantine at a hotel at Old Trafford, which is one of two ''bio-secure'' grounds being used for the series.

Helen Briggs
BBC science and health journalist

When did the virus emerge? The precise events around the timeline are still unclear, more than six months on.

The first known cluster of cases in Wuhan in December 2019 was centred around a local seafood market, which also sold live animals, including wildlife.

Tests suggest the virus was present in some form, but not all cases were connected with the market and no animal source has been pinned down.

Evidence has since emerged suggesting the virus might have been circulating internationally earlier than thought, including from a French doctor who said his patient tested positive for coronavirus in late December.

Now there’s an intriguing new clue, gleaned not from direct evidence, but from studying satellite imagery and internet search terms, which suggests hospital traffic and internet searches for symptoms were on the rise in Wuhan as early as late summer/early autumn.

Only further research into the virus, both in animals and humans, will give an answer - though it’s possible we will never know exactly where and when it emerged.

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The people of Malta are to be handed 100 euro (£89) vouchers to spend in the country's bars, hotels and restaurants as the government seeks to kickstart the economy.

Around a quarter of Malta's GDP comes from tourism, which has been halted completely since mid-March due to Covid-19.

In response, the government plans to hand out five 20 euro vouchers to everyone over the age of 16. Four must be used in hotels or restaurants.

Separately, a monthly wage subsidy of 800 euros per worker in the tourism sector will run until September.

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As lockdowns ease, thermal imaging cameras are popping up in all sorts of public places to assess the state of people's health and if they have a fever.

Using infrared technology, the cameras detect radiating heat from a body - usually from the forehead - and then estimate core body temperature.

They are often deployed by firefighters to track smouldering embers and police to search for out-of-sight suspects, but they are not designed to be medical devices. They can give a reasonable measure of skin temperature, to within half a degree - but that's not the same as body temperature.

"These devices, in general, are less accurate than medical device thermometers like those you stick in the ear," said Derek Hill, professor of medical imaging science from University College London.

Read more on thermal scanners here.

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China has dismissed a study suggesting the coronavirus might have been spreading in the city of Wuhan as early as August last year as "ridiculous".

The research carried out by Harvard Medical School used satellite imagery of hospital car parks in Wuhan - where Covid-19 was first identified towards the end of last year - and data for symptom-related queries on search engines for things such as "cough" and "diarrhoea".

The study found a steep increase in hospital car park occupancy in August 2019.

However, China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said: "I think it is ridiculous, incredibly ridiculous, to come up with this conclusion based on superficial observations such as traffic volume."

Robert Halfon, a Conservative MP who chairs the Commons education select committee, says the UK is risking an "epidemic of educational poverty".

He was responding to the news that the government intends to drop plans for all primary school students in England to return to classrooms before the end of term.

"We're a strange country in which we turn a blind eye to mass demonstrations all over in every city, we campaign for pubs and cafes to open, and yet we say to open schools before September is too risky. Yet all the evidence from the World Health Organization, from many other European Union countries, from the chief medical officer in the UK, suggests otherwise.

"We are potentially damaging children's life chances. People worry about the pandemic but in the future there might be an epidemic of educational poverty."

Halfon added that he thought the government should "think again" about abandoning the plan and called for schools to continue being reopened in phases.