Transmission of virus by asymptomatic people is "an open question", the WHO says
Senior WHO official had earlier said it was "very rare" for asymptomatic people to pass the disease on
Brazil's government restores publication of death and infection figures after a Supreme Court order
The UK records 286 deaths in the past 24 hours, but officials note a downward trend
Non-essential shops will reopen in England from Monday 'if they follow safety rules'
There are more than 7 million infections globally, with over 400,000 deaths
Image source, Getty ImagesCathay Pacific has said it will get a HK$39bn (£4bn; $5bn) Hong Kong government-backed bailout, as it struggles in the coronavirus pandemic.
As part of the restructuring plan the company said it will also implement another round of executive pay cuts.
Cathay's shares were suspended earlier today before the announcement.
Image source, PA MediaThe first year groups returned to school last week - but other years will not now follow
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.
There was an aim for all primary pupils to spend four weeks in school before the summer break.
But it is no longer thought to be feasible - and instead schools will be given "flexibility" over whether or not to admit more pupils.
Head teachers' leaders said it had never been a practical possibility.
It comes after Health Secretary Matt Hancock conceded at Monday's Downing Street briefing that secondary schools in England may not fully reopen until September "at the earliest".
There are separate rules for managing the threat of coronavirus in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Children in England began returning to primary schools in a phased process last week, with Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 pupils heading back first.
Image source, Getty ImagesCopenhagen's famous Tivoli Gardens have reopened after the virus lockdown was eased in Denmark.
On Monday, the amusement park finally allowed guests back in and people clearly enjoyed their day out - even if many precautions remained in place.
The number of visitors to the attractions are limited, and places have to be booked via a smartphone app.
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Image source, Getty ImagesLike many of its South East Asian neighbours, Malaysia has avoided a large Covid-19 outbreak so far.
The country's health ministry has just announced the lowest number of new cases for two months - but it warned of a separate threat from dengue.
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Image source, FITZWILLIAM MUSEUMTitian’s Venus and Cupid with a lute player (1555-1565) is given a modern twist
With the World Health Organization now advising the use of face masks, a museum in the UK has taken that advice to the next level.
The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has released a Masterpieces 2020 Edition, featuring five well-known portraits with added protective masks.
The editions are also being sold as cards to support the museum during its closure.
Image source, FITZWILLIAM MUSEUMPre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais’ The Bridesmaid (1851) dons a floral mask to match her silk gown
Image source, FITZWILLIAM MUSEUMThis image is inspired by the family portrait The Daughters of Sir Matthew Decker, painted by Dutch artist Jan van Meyer in 1718
Image source, Getty ImagesMeetings between Port Adelaide and Adelaide are often ill-tempered
As we reported earlier, the Australian Football League (AFL) will play its first games since March this weekend amid debate over whether fans should be able to attend.
Chief executive Gillon McLachlan told fans this morning to hope for "announcements" by the week's end.
They didn't have to wait long: South Australia has just confirmed it will allow 2,000 spectators and another 240 in private boxes to a match in Adelaide on Saturday.
Clubs in Queensland and New South Wales (NSW) are pushing for similar arrangements.
Australia has reported only two new infections - both in NSW - in the past 24 hours.
Is’haq Khalid
BBC News, Abuja
Image source, Getty ImagesMost of the deaths in Kano state were at home
Nigeria's health minister Osagie Ehanire says up to 60% of nearly 1,000 unexplained deaths in the northern state of Kano were probably due to Covid-19.
The deaths haven't appeared in the country's national total.
Investigators reached the conclusion after looking into a spike in deaths across Kano state in April and early May - mostly among elderly people with existing health conditions.
Some died in hospitals but more than half died at home. There have been similar unexplained spikes in other states across northern Nigeria.
With low testing rates and Africa's largest population, experts fear the virus could be spreading virtually undetected in Nigeria.
So far about 12,000 coronavirus cases have been confirmed - with only 350 deaths.
Philippa Roxby
Health reporter, BBC News
Image source, Getty ImagesAs lockdowns ease, thermal imaging cameras are popping up in all sorts of public places to assess the state of people's health.
So how do these cameras work? Do they actually help detect the virus?
Image source, Getty ImagesMore than 650,000 people live in Dharavi
Dharavi, India's biggest slum, has seen a decline in Covid-19 cases this week.
The slum is home to more than half-a-million people, who are spread over 2.5 sq km - which is less than a square mile.
Due to its cramped geography and large population, Dharavi - which has more nearly 2,000 cases - was seen as a hotspot within Mumbai.
On Monday, just 12 new infections were reported and local authorities say they've seen a drop in cases. According to some reports, the slum was seeing around 50 cases every other day in the last two weeks of May, external.
There have also been no deaths in the past week, external, officials told the Hindustan Times newspaper.
The slum was the inspiration for the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire film and city planners from all over the world have studied its throbbing economy and society.
Mumbai continues to be the worst-affected city in India, with cases breaching the 50,000 mark in the past 24 hours.
Image source, ReutersBelgium allowed almost all businesses to reopen on Monday - including bars and restaurants. And that meant - for the first time in almost 12 weeks - people were able to head out for more than just takeaways.
The rules meant some tables were left empty, and waiters wore face masks. But for many, it was a symbolic step in the right direction.
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Image source, Getty ImagesRana Daggubati is one of Tollywood's leading actors
Shooting for films and TV will be allowed in the southern state of Telangana, as India begins to exit its lockdown this week.
The state's chief minister said on Monday that shoots can resume as long as guidelines on limited staff and other social distancing measures are followed. Cinemas will remain closed, K Chandrashekhar Rao added.
Several prominent actors from the state met Rao recently and requested him to resume shooting for films and television,, external local media reported.
The state is home to Tollywood, one of India's biggest regional film industries, which routinely produces blockbuster hits that rival Bollywood's most popular films.
Experts say that India's thriving film industry could take at least two years to financially recover from the pandemic, having lost more than $100m in box office revenues due to the lockdown, external, according to some estimates.
Image source, TARA BASHFORDFor now, Tara's plans are on hold
For some it's to skydive, others it's to find themselves, but for Tara Bashford it was her love of mountains that made her book a backpacking trip to New Zealand.
The 23-year-old climbing instructor from Liverpool in the UK had "saved up as much as possible" and was ready to head off in April.
But then the virus happened, and she couldn't fly out.
New Zealand's adventure capital is Queenstown and more than half of its 28,000 population are employed in the tourism sector. Despite the country's lockdown being over, the borders remain closed.
"Right now we're not even close to breaking even," one hostel owner says.
New Zealand is now virus-free - but the case of the last Covid-19 patient shows just how serious the illness can be.
Lilian Su’a, a 55-year old woman, was battling the virus for more than two months. Her condition was so serious that at one point, the doctors told her family they didn't expect her to survive.
Now recovering back home, she told Radio New Zealand how she was finally taken off sedatives after four weeks in the intensive care unit.
“I didn't know how many days that I was asleep," she said. "But the thing that's coming from my mouth was 'Thank you, Lord'."
Image source, AFPCinemas in the US state of California - home to Hollywood and the American film industry - could reopen as early as Friday, state officials said. They have been closed as part of the lockdown since mid-March.
If cinemas do get the green light for Friday, operators will have to limit attendance to 25% of capacity - or to a maximum of 100 people.
Like much of the entertainment industry, the movie and cinema business has been severely hit by the pandemic.
Many movies - including the latest James Bond thriller - had to delay their release.
The economic downturn in the US triggered by the pandemic has been officially declared a recession.
The National Bureau of Economic Research made the designation on Tuesday, citing the scale and severity of the current contraction.
It said activity and employment hit a "clear" and "well-defined" peak in February, before falling.
The ruling puts a formal end to what had been more than a decade of expansion - the longest in US history.
Despite the bad news, shares on Wall Street closed sharply higher on Monday thanks to action taken by the US central bank to prop up the financial sector.
Justin Rowlatt
Chief Environment correspondent
Image source, Getty ImagesThe coronavirus crisis has changed the way we use energy, at least for now. But could the pandemic finally finish off coal, the most polluting of all fossil fuels?
The Covid-19 crisis has been an extraordinary and terrifying time for us all, but it has been a fascinating period to cover environmental issues.
We've all enjoyed the unusually clean air and clear skies. They are the most obvious evidence that we have been living through a unique experiment in energy use.
Some industry observers are even saying that coal may never recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
Katy Watson
BBC South America correspondent, Sao Paulo
The battle of narratives has already begun after Brazil’s government stopped publishing total death tolls, external and numbers of cases.
First up on Monday night, the media coalition that’s started collating Covid-19 figures said there were 849 deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the total number to 37,312. A further 19,631 cases were recorded, totalling 710,887.
But the National Council of Health Secretaries said there were 679 deaths and 15,654 cases. And that figure tallied with the Ministry of Health, which finally issued its own figures a few hours later.
There’s still a great deal of anger over the government’s actions in the past few days. This latest fiasco has made people feel the only input the government seems to be having is to cover up the extent of the problem.
But then again, even before this weekend, so many people doubted the official numbers because Brazil tests so little – in fact, it tests around 5% of what most European countries do. The view is that the real numbers are far, far higher than the official figures suggest.
One part of greater Sao Paulo though is trying to buck that trend. Sao Caetano do Sul, a suburb that is rated as having one of the highest qualities of life in Brazil, is trying to test a third of its 165,000 population.
It’s offering drive-through rapid testing for residents and business-owners, and for those with symptoms, a door-to-door testing service.
“Perhaps our most difficult job is giving out unified information to our population,” says the city’s mayor Jose Auriccio Junior.
“With the differences between the thinking of the central government and local governments, the upshot has been disinformation to citizens and that’s clearly confusing."
And doctors here are feeling deflated. Paula Camargo, a student medic, is part of the door-to-door service.
“I think this is still the country of football – nothing against football, far from it. But education and health, which need to be prioritised, are not.”
Image source, Getty ImagesFor most of us, despite some easing of restrictions, lockdown measures are still noticeable - whether large or small.
But if you woke up in New Zealand this morning, you woke up to a country without any restrictions.
The county has no active cases and is now on alert level 1 - which means measures at the border remain, but except for that, life is back to normal.
New Zealand went into a strict lockdown on 25 March. After five weeks of declining cases, measures started to be lifted.
But Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has urged people to remain careful - and said it was likely that at some point that new infections would occur.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe US recorded 450 deaths linked to the virus over the past 24 hours, the lowest daily increase in two months - although Monday figures tend to be lower because of a reporting delay over the weekend.
The US remains the hardest-hit country worldwide with 110,990 deaths and just under two million confirmed infections.
In mid-April the death toll increased by more than 3,000 per day. For the past two weeks, the daily number dipped below 1,000 multiple times.
Image source, Getty ImagesMore than seven million cases of coronavirus have been confirmed since the outbreak began, along with 404,000 virus-related deaths.
And - despite progress in tackling the virus in Europe - the WHO says the pandemic is "worsening" globally.
"More than six months into this pandemic, this is not the time for any country to take its foot off the pedal," WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
At a coronavirus briefing on Monday, he told reporters that more than 100,000 cases had been reported in nine of the past 10 days, and that 75% of Sunday's cases came from just 10 countries - most of them in the Americas and South Asia.
Tedros also said the WHO was encouraged by "positive signs" in several countries.
"In these countries, the biggest threat now is complacency," he said.
"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."