The World Health Organization has warned against any rush to ease coronavirus restrictions, as some US states look to end lockdown conditions and re-start their economies.
Here are the latest updates on the pandemic from around the world:
SPAIN
New deaths attributed to the new coronavirus in Spain are slightly up again today, with 430 fatalities that bring the total death toll to 21,282 from a four-week low of 399 daily deaths on Monday.
Spain is reporting nearly 4,000 new infections to a total of 204,178, a 2% day-to-day increase in line with the average for the past four days, health ministry data shows.
The government is assessing already how to roll back one of Europe's strictest lockdowns, starting from next Monday by allowing children to go out onto the streets for brief periods. Spain's centre-left Cabinet is discussing details on how the measure will be implemented during Tuesday's weekly meeting.
An eight-week survey of 30,000 households that will be tested for the new virus is also expected to roll out on April 27, allowing authorities to gauge what's the level of immunisation beyond hospitals and nursing homes, where testing has focused during the peak of the pandemic.
SINGAPORE
Singapore has announced it would extend its lockdown by another four weeks after a sharp upsurge in cases in recent days.
The city-state reported 1,111 new cases earlier today to take its total to 9,125, the highest in Southeast Asia. Foreign workers staying in crowded dormitories account for nearly 80% of infections.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said most of the new cases were due to aggressive testing of workers in the dorms, including those who are asymptomatic.
Mr Lee said in a televised speech that the clusters in the dorms have remained largely contained but circuit-breaker measures, that shut down non-essential businesses and schools until May 4, will be prolonged till June 1 until infections ease.
Mr Lee said the government would shut more workplaces so that only the most essential services will stay open. Mr Lee said the "short-term pain" is crucial to stamp out the virus, and pledged to provide further help for businesses and workers.
ITALY
Italian premier Giuseppe Conte today confirmed that Italy can start reopening on May 4, but he doused any hopes of a total loosening of some of the strictest lockdown measures in a western democracy.
"Many citizens are tired of the efforts that have been made so far and would like a significant loosening of these measures, or even their total abolition," Mr Conte said in a Facebook post, adding that "a decision of that kind would be irresponsible".
Mr Conte indicated that moves to relax the restrictions would be announced by the end of the week, and that they would take into account the different circumstances among regions.
Italy's north, hardest-hit by the virus and the country's economic engine, has been straining to restart industry after a shutdown of non-essential manufacturing on March 26 - even as some have received permission to reopen with a much-reduced workforce in recent days.
Veneto regional governor Luca Zaia estimates as much as 40% of companies are already working in the region. Mr Conte pointed out that the regions still were not able to keep up with some necessities for a reopening, including masks and gloves, noting that the government had supplied 110 million masks in addition to 3,000 ventilators to hospitals.
"It is too easy to say, 'let's open everything," Mr Conte said.
CZECH REPUBLIC
The government is launching a comprehensive study with a goal to determine the number of undetected infections with the coronavirus in its population.
Health minister Adam Vojtech said some 27,000 people across the country will be tested in the next two weeks, starting on Thursday.
The study will be conducted on people aged 18-89 in different parts of the Czech Republic, where the epidemic is at different stages. In the capital of Prague and the second-largest city of Brno, children also will be included.
The samples of the population tested will include volunteers as well a selected group suffering from chronic diseases.
SOUTH KOREA
South Korea's professional baseball league has decided to begin its new season on May 5, initially without fans, following a postponement over the coronavirus.
The Korea Baseball Organisation made the announcement after a board meeting today while teams began their pre-season exhibition games in empty stadiums.
The league says fans will be barred from games until the risk of infections are gone.
BURMA
A car used by the World Health Organization to transport swab samples to be tested for the Covid-19 virus has been attacked in western Burma, killing the driver and wounding a passenger.
The Global New Light of Burma newspaper reported that the vehicle bearing a UN licence plate was attacked in Rakhine State en route to Rangoon late on Monday afternoon.
Rakhine has been the scene of bitter fighting between the government and the Arakan Army, an ethnic guerrilla group fighting for autonomy in Rakhine State. Each side blamed the other for the Monday attack.
GERMANY
This year's Oktoberfest in Munich has been called off because of the pandemic.
The cancellation of the world-famous annual celebration of beer, which was supposed to run from September 19 to October 4, underlines expectations that the path back to normal life will be very long.
The Oktoberfest typically draws about six million visitors every year to packed festival grounds in Bavaria's capital.
State governor Markus Soeder said after meeting Munich's mayor today: "We agreed that the risk is simply too high."
He added that "you can neither keep your distance nor work with facial protection" at the Oktoberfest.
INDONESIA
President Joko Widodo has banned people in the world's most populous Muslim nation from travelling back home to celebrate the Islamic holiday during the coronavirus pandemic.
The announcement came amid warnings from health experts of a chance Indonesia will face an outbreak of coronavirus cases that could infect more than a million people following Ramadan, unless the government takes stricter measures in a country home to about 230 million Muslims.
Mr Widodo said government surveys that showed 24% of people insisted on returning home for the holiday had caused him to issue the ban. He asked his administration to prepare measures in enforcing the restriction.
As of yesterday, the nation had reported at least 6,760 infections - including 590 deaths from Covid-19, more fatalities than any Asian country other than China.
AUSTRALIA
Prime minister Scott Morrison has strongly backs his foreign minister's call for an independent inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus.
China's foreign ministry rejected Australian foreign minister Marise Payne's call on Sunday for an independent review into the origins of the virus, including China's handling of the initial outbreak.
Mr Morrison said Ms Payne's view had his "very, very strong support".
FRANCE
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders is sounding the alarm that the coronavirus pandemic poses a threat to freedom of the press around the world.
In its annual evaluation of global media freedoms in Paris, the group warned that the health crisis could serve as an excuse for governments "to take advantage of the fact that politics are on hold, the public is stunned and protests are out of the question, in order to impose measures that would be impossible in normal times".
JAPAN
Prime minister Shinzo Abe expressed concerns that Japanese people have not followed social distancing measures as much as they are supposed to under a state of emergency he declared two weeks ago to fight the spread of the coronavirus.
Mr Abe asked citizens to do more to prevent Japanese health care systems from collapsing.
He said: "Please avoid making out-of-town trips," adding that hospitals are overburdened already and infections must be slowed. "I seek further cooperation from all of you," he said.
Mr Abe noted that many people in urban areas made trips out of town last weekend, posing risks of spreading the virus and putting elderly people in jeopardy.
UNITED NATIONS
The General Assembly has approved a resolution calling for global action to rapidly scale up development, manufacturing and access to medicine, vaccines and medical equipment to confront the pandemic.
The Mexican-drafted resolution requests Secretary-General Antonio Guterres work with the World Health Organization and recommend options to ensure timely and equitable access to testing, medical supplies, drugs and future coronavirus vaccines for all in need, especially in developing countries.
It reaffirms the fundamental role of the United Nations system in coordinating the global response to control and contain the spread of Covid-19 and in supporting the 193 UN member states, "and in this regard acknowledges the crucial leading role played by the World Health Organization".
