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There have been no new coronavirus deaths registered in Scotland over the past 24 hours, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.

A total of 2,472 patients have died in Scotland after testing positive for Covid-19, which is no change on Sunday's figure.

The death total previously remained unchanged on four other days - 21 June, 15 June, 8 June and 7 June.

The first minister said 18,170 people have tested positive for the virus in Scotland, up by 14 from 18,156 the day before.

There are 867 people in hospital with confirmed or suspected Covid-19, an increase of 66.

Of these patients, 15 were in intensive care, down by one.

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Five footballers from Serbian team Red Star Belgrade have tested positive for coronavirus.

The club’s statement on Monday came after it played a series of games in front of crowds.

Other football leagues – including the English Premier League – have opted to resume games behind closed doors.

The Serbian government took the same approach at first, but earlier this month, it agreed to open-air gatherings of any size.

At least four of the five infected players did not play in the most recent match, on Saturday, as they had felt coronavirus symptoms ahead of it, the club said.

"The players feel well and are in strict isolation and in permanent contact with the medical team of the club," Red Star said.

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It’s understood that Northern Ireland’s devolved government is set to allow up to six members of a family to meet indoors.

The move to further ease the lockdown is expected to be confirmed by Stormont ministers when they meet later today.

They will also discuss extra funding for childcare and finding the cash necessary to provide food over the summer holidays for children entitled to free school meals.

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The UK government will outline proposals this week on how to safely reduce the 2m social distancing rule in England.

The distance could be lowered with "mitigations", so people can be closer without a higher risk of transmission, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the BBC. But what does the science say?

The simple answer is that the nearer you are to someone who is infected, the greater the risk of catching the virus.

The World Health Organization recommends keeping a distance of at least 1m, external.

Some countries have adopted this guidance, often because they also insist on people wearing masks. But there are also regional variations inside countries.

Read more from our science editor David Shukman here.

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Health officials in South Korea believe the country is going through a second wave of coronavirus.

Officials on Monday said that over the last 24 hours, 17 new infections had been recorded, from different clusters in large offices and warehouses.

Those numbers may appear small, but officials are concerned that following their initial success in tackling the pandemic, they could now be dealing with small clusters for months to come.

Dr Jung Eun-kyeong, head of the Korea Centers for Disease Control (KCDC), said it was now clear that a holiday weekend in early May marked the beginning of a new wave of infections focused in the greater Seoul area, which had previously seen only a few cases.

South Korea has avoided a lockdown and has instead relied on voluntary social distancing measures alongside an aggressive track, trace and test strategy to combat the virus.

A total of 280 people have died since the country reported its first case on 20 January. More than 12,000 infections have been recorded and it is thought that there remain 1,277 active cases.

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Fifty-seven female minors have tested positive for Covid-19 in a government-run shelter in the northern Indian city of Kanpur, officials say.

The majority are asymptomatic and all of those who tested positive have been moved to an isolation centre.

Five of the 57 girls were found to also be pregnant, officials told BBC Hindi.

The outbreak came to light after one of the girls was taken to hospital last week with a fever.

After she was declared positive, the other girls in the home were tested.

With more than 400,000 infections, India has the fourth-highest number of cases in the world.

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A local lockdown could be enforced on the island of Anglesey, North Wales, in a bid to contain a coronavirus outbreak at a chicken processing factory, Public Health Wales (PHW) says.

Dr Giri Shankar, PHW’s Incident Director for Covid-19, said "aggressive control measures" were being used at the 2 Sisters plant in Llangefni to stop the infection and there was currently no evidence of widespread community transmission.

Dr Shankar told BBC Radio Wales local lockdowns could be something "we need to consider" based on "how the outbreak progresses".

So far, 158 positive cases have been confirmed and all staff and contractors are being contacted for testing and asked to self-isolate for 14 days.

The company - which processes about a third of all poultry products eaten in the UK each day - has suspended production and closed the factory.

2 Sisters has said "the health, safety and well-being of our colleagues is ultimately the thing that matters most".

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Brazil on Sunday became the second country after the US to record more than 50,000 Covid-19 deaths, but how is the rest of Latin America doing?

• Peru is the second-worst affected country in the region with more than a quarter of a million cases and more than 8,000 Covid-related deaths. Despite the continuing rise in cases, the government has brought forward the planned reopening of shopping centres and hairdressers in most areas of the country, with customers welcomed from later today
• Chile has become the latest country to surpass the number of cases in Italy - an early hotspot of the pandemic. The number of dead nearly doubled on Saturday after the government changed the way it tallies the figure to include probable fatalities from Covid-19
• Mexico has so far recorded fewer cases than either Peru or Chile but its death toll is much higher with more than 21,000 fatalities. Just under half of all Mexican states, including Mexico City, are still in the "red zone", under the highest alert with bars and cinemas closed and sporting events cancelled. The brewing of beer, which had been paused for weeks at the start of the pandemic leading to a shortage, has been allowed to resume.

For more details read: What are the numbers out of Latin America?

Events celebrating the UK's Caribbean community may have been cancelled this year due to the pandemic, so here are a few ways you can still mark Windrush Day at home.

1. Online storytelling events

“I would advise people of all backgrounds to be part of online discussions to learn more about the Windrush generation," says poet and playwright Khadijah Ibrahiim. "They integrated within British society despite the racism they faced."

Khadijah is the creative associate director of the Geraldine Connor Foundation in Leeds, which is hosting a Zoom event featuring a range of literature and music exploring the themes of Windrush.

The Black Cultural Archives will also be hosting a live discussion on their Instagram page with the charity Poetic Unity.

2. Watch a BBC drama inspired by the Windrush scandal

The BBC's recent drama Sitting in Limbo tells the story of Anthony Bryan who was threatened with deportation by the Home Office even after spending the majority of his life in the UK.

You can watch the programme here.

3. Learn about the history of the Windrush generation

“There’s no better way to find out more than to speak to the people who actually lived in that generation,” says Charlin Skeete, a Barbadian student from the University of Kent.

She thinks Windrush Day is a great opportunity to start conversations with anyone you know who has links with the Windrush generation, or moved to the UK from the Caribbean.

“If you have a friend who is of Caribbean descent, reaching out to them will not hurt if you want to educate yourself," she says.

Spain has reopened its borders to visitors from most European countries after the coronavirus lockdown was imposed in March. It has also ended its state of emergency.

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More than 50,000 people have now died from Covid-19 in Brazil, second only to the US. Seven members of Douglas Sterzza Dias’s family got the virus.

“The central nucleus of my family was completely destroyed,” says trainee surgeon Douglas at his flat in central São Paulo. His mother and uncle passed away in the hospital where he works. His grandmother also died. Douglas was the only one to attend his mother’s funeral - the rest of the family was quarantined.

“I did it all. Just me - me and myself. It’s the worst thing ever because you have nobody to cry with you, nobody to give a hug.”

What does he make of Brazil’s crisis?

“We had time to prepare, but we didn’t,” he says. “We see the curve going up, not down. It’s sad.”

He doesn’t think much of President Jair Bolsonaro’s handling of the crisis and feels the president is partly to blame: “We need a leader and he’s not a leader - he’s just another politician.”

He worries about what the next few weeks hold, as major cities such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro starting to open back up.

“Why are we opening shopping centres? It’s crazy, it’s unbelievable,” he says.

“When the crisis started and I saw what was happening in Italy, my biggest fear was to have choose between patients - to let someone die,” says Douglas. “I think we are very close to this [happening] in the next few weeks.”

Read more on the pandemic in Brazil.

Around four in 10 young people who say coronavirus has affected their wellbeing believe the lockdown has made their mental health worse, according to new analysis from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Some 42% of people aged 16-29 said their mental health had deteriorated, compared with 25% of those aged 30-59 and 15% of those people aged 60 and over.

The ONS figures cover the period 3 April to 10 May, and are based on responses to its regular opinions and lifestyle survey in Britain.

They also show that, of those who said coronavirus had affected their wellbeing, 51% of 16-29 year-olds felt lonely, compared with 27% of 30-59 year-olds and 26% of people aged 60 and over.

• You can read advice on how to build better relationships remotely here.
• You can watch an explanation of how loneliness can affect physical health here.
• And finally, you can read the full ONS report of the social impacts of the pandemic here., external

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Following world No.19 Gregor Dimitrov's withdrawal from the Adria Tour tournament due to his positive Covid-19 test, a second player has now tested positive.

Dimitrov, 29, pulled out of the tournament in Zadar, Croatia, on Saturday with sickness after losing to 23-year-old Borna Coric, who played again on Sunday.

Now, Coric has revealed he too has Covid-19, albeit without any symptoms.

With Croatia easing lockdown measures before the event, players were not obliged to observe social distancing rules and were seen embracing at the net at the end of their matches.

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Children are developing serious mental health conditions, including post-traumatic stress, because of the coronavirus pandemic, a charity has warned.

In a report the Childhood Trust says , externaldisadvantage is leaving children extremely vulnerable.

As well as anxiety about their loved ones' health, many children are facing social isolation and hunger. Lack of internet access is also setting disadvantaged children back.

You can read the full story here.

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At his first campaign rally for months on Saturday, President Donald Trump told his supporters it was the "double-edged sword" of comprehensive testing that had led to the US having the world's highest number of coronavirus cases.

"When you do testing... you are going to find more people, you will find more cases," he told attendees in Tulsa, Oklahoma. "So I said to my people: 'Slow the testing down.'"

The White House later said his comments were meant as a joke.

But he revisited the issue on Monday with a new tweet in which he argued that the more tests a country carried out, the more cases it was likely to find. However, some health experts have said this is not the case, external.

The US has nearly 2.3m reported cases of the virus and the highest number of deaths worldwide with nearly 120,000.

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Hundreds of people were arrested in The Hague in the Netherlands on Sunday, after a peaceful protest in the city turned violent.

Mayor Johan Remkes allowed demonstrators to gather at 13:00 local time (11:00 GMT) on Sunday after originally banning the anti-lockdown protest amid fears that people would not observe social distancing.

Police then said a small number of “troublemakers”, who they identified as football fans, threw stones and smoke bombs at officers after the demonstration broke up. Mounted officers and water cannon were deployed to tackle the unrest.

“The atmosphere is grim,” the official police Twitter account posted.

Mayor Remkes later said a small group was “deliberately aiming to disturb public order”. “This has nothing to do with demonstrating or freedom of expression,” he wrote.

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According to research by think tank the Resolution Foundation, lower-income households in the UK are using savings and borrowing more during the coronavirus lockdown, while richer families are saving more as eating out and trips abroad are banned.

Lower-income households are twice as likely as richer ones to have increased their debts during the crisis, it said.

Workers in shutdown parts of the economy have average savings of £1,900, it found. That compares to the £4,700 buffer of someone who has been able to work from home during the lockdown.

Wealth gaps across the country have also grown, with London and the South East accounting for 38% of all wealth between 2016 to 2018, up from 32% a decade earlier.

You can read more about the report here.

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The coronavirus crisis should lead to more integrity and less hypocrisy in politics and society, Pope Francis has said.

In an excerpt from a recent interview with his biographer, the head of the Catholic church said: "This crisis is affecting us all, rich and poor alike and putting a spotlight on hypocrisy.

"I am worried by the hypocrisy of certain political personalities who speak of facing up to the crisis.

"Of the problem of hunger in the world, but who in the meantime manufacture weapons.

"This is a time to be converted from this kind of function of hypocrisy. It's a time for integrity. Either we are coherent with our beliefs or we lose everything."

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The annual Glyndebourne opera festival in the UK has announced that it will perform live opera outdoors in front of an audience this summer.

It will be its first live performance since the country's lockdown was imposed in March.

Its production of Offenbach's Mesdames de la Halle in August will be staged with fewer musicians and no chorus. The audience will be limited to 200 people, to ensure social distancing guidelines are respected, while props and costumes will come from past operas.

Earlier this year, the opera house announced it was cancelling its entire summer season, external.

Read more here.

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The UK's security minister, James Brokenshire, was asked on BBC Breakfast this morning about the potential for further lockdown easing and changes to social-distancing rules in England.

He told the programme: "There has been a great deal of work that's been taking place at pace over the last number of days, informed by the science, informed by experience from around the world as well, as to how we can appropriately look at easements and appropriately also reflect on the two-metre rule as well."

He added that international experience and understanding of the virus had evolved in recent weeks and the decision would be informed by "the best, most up to date science" and medical experience.

On the fact the "R" number in Germany rose over the weekend, the minister said: "It is concerning to see the situation in Germany and it's why we are informed in our actions by experience from around the world. [It's] why the chief scientific officer and the chief medical officer speak to their counterparts in different parts of the world, to ensure that we are applying the best learning and the best experience in informing our next steps."