PM Boris Johnson announces plans to further ease lockdown restrictions in England
People living alone can stay at one other household from Saturday by forming a "bubble"
A further 245 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK
The global economy will contract by 6% in 2020, the OECD says - but a bounce-back could take place next year unless there is a second virus wave
Italian prosecutors say they will question PM Giuseppe Conte and other government members over virus response
There have been more than 7m infections globally, with 3.37m recoveries and more than 411,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University
In Scotland, going to a bingo hall is one of the many activities that aren't allowed under the lockdown.
However a community group in Paisley has come up with a way to keep playing while adhering to social distancing rules.
People are given bingo cards and pens and sit apart from each other as the numbers are called from a bus with a sound system.
The bus bringing bingo to the streets
The coronavirus outbreak and measures to curb it will have "dire" economic consequences, a report warns.
The forecast, by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, says global output could shrink by 7.6% over this year.
This chart (above) plots how the agency expects gross domestic product (GDP) to fall for developed nations.
The worst hit? That's expected to be the UK, the report said.
Britain's economy is likely to slump by 11.5% in 2020, the report said. But it warned it could fall by 14% If there were a second peak in the pandemic.
A South African court has begun hearing a controversial petition challenging a tobacco sales ban imposed in March as part of stringent measures to control the spread of coronavirus.
The Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association (Fita), which represents some cigarette makers, has taken the government to Pretoria High Court.
"We have termed it a draconian prohibition, a ban of this nature is probably the most dramatic of any measure that can be taken," argued Fita lawyer Arnold Subel.
State lawyers said the ban was imposed to force people to stop smoking to help prevent overburdening the health system.
President Cyril Ramaphosa lifted a ban on alcohol sales on 1 June, but kept the moratorium on tobacco "due to the health risks associated with smoking".
Image source, Getty ImagesGermany will lift border controls with Switzerland, France, Austria and Denmark on Monday, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has announced.
Austria is to drop checks at its border with Italy and end quarantine requirements for more than 20 European countries from Tuesday.
Border controls between Austria and Germany have already been lifted, but the new move means Austrians can return from holiday destinations like Italy and Croatia without having to go into quarantine or show a negative test.
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Image source, AFPGoogle Maps will show commuters the latest transport alerts in a bid to stop overcrowding on public transport.
Users will be alerted whenever their trip is likely to be affected by Covid-19 restrictions with mandatory precautions from official local data.
People will be warned in instances such as public transport services being suspended due to the pandemic.
The feature is being rolled out in the UK, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, France, India, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Thailand and the US.
Public transport services in many countries have been reduced during the outbreak.
James Gallagher
Health and science correspondent, BBC News
Image source, Getty ImagesCoronavirus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 occasions, a major analysis of the genetics of the virus shows.
The study, by the Covid-19 Genomics UK consortium, quashes the idea that a single "patient zero" started the whole UK outbreak.
The analysis also finds China, where the pandemic started, had a negligible impact on cases in the UK and instead most cases came in from European countries.
The researchers analysed the genetic code of viral samples taken from more than 20,000 people infected with coronavirus in the UK.
Northern Ireland's Department of Health has reported no further deaths of people with coronavirus for a fourth day in a row.
UK-wide figures will be published later today.
Image source, EPATokyo 2020 chief executive Toshiro Muto has said the rearranged Olympics will "not be done with grand splendour", but will be simplified.
The Games, originally scheduled to start next month, were postponed for a year in March because of the pandemic.
Speaking after an executive board meeting for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Muto added that more than 200 areas had been identified "where Olympics simplification was possible" but that "we are not at the stage where we have concrete ideas on how to simplify the Games".
A further nine people have died in Wales after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths there to 1,419, Public Health Wales has said.
UK-wide figures will be published later.
Top EU officials have called on Facebook, Google and Twitter to "step up their efforts" to tackle disinformation about coronavirus.
The officials urged the internet giants to provide monthly reports on how they are curbing misleading news, as well as attempts by foreign groups to weaken health measures in Europe.
"Disinformation does not only harm the health of our democracies, it also harms the health of our citizens," a statement said.
The EU has previously warned of attempts by foreign actors - in particular Russia and China - to influence citizens through disinformation campaigns.
Political leaders in Scotland have clashed over testing in care homes - where almost half of all coronavirus-linked deaths in the nation are still occurring.
Speaking during First Minister's Questions, Nicola Sturgeon said that so far about 11,000 care home staff and about 15,000 residents had been tested.
But opposition leaders criticised the speed of the rollout - pointing out that there were over 50,000 care home staff in Scotland.
Scottish Conservative Jackson Carlaw told Sturgeon to "'get a grip" on the situation and set a deadline to complete care home testing.
Sturgeon hit back accusing Carlaw of making “unsubstantiated claims”.
Watch the exchange below and follow the latest from Holyrood here.
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Image source, EPAThis Cairo street vendor used a mannequin to advertise face masks and other protective gear
A senior Egyptian health official has warned that the number of confirmed daily cases in the country is expected to surge this month.
Hossam Hosni, who heads the Covid-19 committee at the health ministry, said citizens were not fully adhering to social distancing and other lockdown measures.
"Social caution is more important than the curfew," he told the Saudi-funded Al-Hadath channel. "Regardless of the presence of a curfew, people have to be socially cautious."
He said the daily count this month would reach 2,000 and possibly higher. But he predicted that cases would start to decline by mid-July.
Egypt has so far registered about 35,000 Covid-19 cases and more than 1,200 deaths.
A round-up of headlines as countries consider how to tackle the implications of the coronavirus crisis:
Image source, ReutersLiverpool can play home matches at Anfield when the Premier League season restarts, while the Merseyside derby has been cleared to be held at Everton's Goodison Park stadium.
The match on 21 June could be the first chance for Liverpool, who are 25 points clear at the top, to clinch their first league title in 30 years.
It was one of the games considered a risk because of fears fans could congregate outside the ground, so Southampton's St Mary's had been earmarked as a potential neutral venue.
But the city of Liverpool's ground safety advisory group has now recommended that both Liverpool and Everton can play their remaining home fixtures "safely and securely" behind closed doors at their own stadiums.
Image source, ReutersKeeping up to date with the outbreak can be overwhelming, but our team at BBC Minute has put together everything you need to know in the space of a minute.
Today's update focuses on the outbreak in India and a warning by a top US medical expert that the pandemic isn't over yet.
Earlier during Prime Minister's Questions, Boris Johnson said he wanted to keep the 2m (6ft) social distancing rule "under constant review" as the incidence of coronavirus comes down.
The government has come under pressure from MPs and businesses to relax the rule to a shorter distance to help the hospitality sector reopen.
The World Health Organization says that a distance of 1m is safe and some countries have adopted this guidance, while others, including the UK, have gone further.
You can read more about the scientific evidence on the 2m rule here.
Kerry Allen
BBC Monitoring, Chinese Media Analyst
There’s a lot of anger on Chinese social media at plans to reopen the US consulate in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
The US State Department announced its plans to resume consular activities in the city on 22 June earlier today. But Chinese social media users are saying that US officials are “not welcome” in the city and that it would be a “shameless” move to reopen the consulate.
“Don’t bring the Trump virus to China!” says one user on the popular Sina Weibo microblog, which has received more than 7,000 likes. Calling Covid-19 the “Trump virus” has been popular in China in response to US President Trump previously calling Covid-19 the “Chinese virus”. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has also been slammed by the Chinese public for calling the virus “the Wuhan virus”.
Given that the US has more than 1.9m confirmed cases of Covid-19 – hundreds of thousands more than any other country in the world - many in China are anxious that US diplomats entering China and resuming operations in the city could prompt a second outbreak.
Wuhan was the city hardest hit by Covid-19 in China, with more than 50,000 confirmed cases.
Image source, ReutersFifty relatives of coronavirus victims have filed complaints over the handling of the pandemic, in the first such legal group action in Italy., external
Stefano Fusco, 31, created a Facebook group to reach out to others in similar situations after his grandfather died in a care home in March. He said: "We don't want revenge, we want justice."
The complaints were filed at the prosecutors' office in Bergamo, the city in northern Italy worst hit by the pandemic. The country has reported 34,043 deaths, external liked to coronavirus.
Consuelo Locati, one of the lawyers representing the families, said another 200 complaints were set to be handed, external to Bergamo prosecutors.
Reality Check
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the government’s policy on re-opening schools during PMQs, saying “plenty of other comparable countries are getting their children back to school”.
But what are other major countries on the continent actually doing?
In France, primary schools started to re-open on 11 May in “green” zones, where the rate of infection was low. The government issued detailed instructions to schools on how to ensure the safety of pupils: this includes a maximum of 15 children to a class, no shared toys and staggered arrivals. Children over 11 are required to wear masks.
In Germany, students who had final exams this year went back first but, from 4 May, primary schools started to re-open too with safety provisions. Germany’s 16 state governments are in charge of the implementation but the majority of them prioritised the return of final year primary pupils.
Spain partially re-opened from 26 May, to allow for revision classes and state exams, but all other children will not return until September.
Italy will keep all its schools shut until September.
A further 12 people have died after testing positive for Covid-19 in Scotland in a day, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.
It brings the total number of coronavirus-linked deaths there to 2,434.
That figure is lower than the National Records of Scotland (NRS) figure of 4,000 deaths released a few minutes ago.
The NRS figures, which are released weekly, include those in which Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.