Coronavirus has infected more than 4.7 million people across the world and killed over 315,000, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.
Here are the latest updates on the pandemic from around the world:
BRUSSELS
The European Union is supporting the World Health Organisation. The EU is urging all countries to back the UN agency after President Donald Trump threatened to permanently cut US funding.
European Commission spokeswoman Virginie Battu-Henriksson says global cooperation is "the only effective and viable option to win this battle".
She says "this is the time for solidarity. It is not the time for finger-pointing or undermining multilateral cooperation".
RUSSIA
Russia's prime minister has fully resumed his duties after recovering from the coronavirus.
Mikhail Mishustin (54) announced that he had been infected in a televised call with President Vladimir Putin on April 30.
Today, Mr Mishustin's office said that he has checked out of the hospital and returned to his duties in the Cabinet headquarters. He is set to take part in a video conference with President Vladimir Putin later in the day.
Several Cabinet ministers and Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov also have been infected.
Mr Peskov said that he had double pneumonia caused by the virus. He noted that he had not met with Mr Putin in person for more than a month.
Mr Putin has limited public appearances and held most of his meetings online during the virus pandemic.
UAE
Long-haul carrier Etihad Airways says it has cut staff because of fewer flights during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Abu Dhabi-based, state-owned carrier said in a statement "it is clear the demand for travel in the near future will be significantly reduced and as a result we must make difficult decisions to ensure Etihad will weather this storm".
The airline offered no figures for the number of employees let go. Etihad competes with Dubai-based Emirates and Qatar Airways for long-haul flights from East to West.
CHINA
China supports an eventual review of the global response to the coronavirus pandemic, but not an immediate probe as Australia and others have proposed.
China had long rejected the idea of an investigation into the origins and response to the pandemic but its attitude appeared to soften at the World Health Assembly yesterday.
Today, foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said Chinese would agree to a probe "after the global epidemic is under control, summing up experience and making up for deficiencies".
The UN's World Health Association should lead that work with a "scientific and professional attitude ... in the principle of objectivity and fairness," he said, rejecting Australia's call for an independent body to launch the inquiry.
"Finally, I want to emphasise that we welcome the Australian side to, in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the World Health Assembly, change its course, completely abandon political manipulation and return to the general consensus of the international community," Mr Zhao said.
GENEVA
A spokeswoman for the World Health Organisation said the UN health agency does not have an immediate reaction to a letter from US President Donald Trump that listed his complaints against it, including that it had shown "an alarming lack of independence" from China in its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib noted that she had seen the letter.
"I don't have any reaction, we have been busy trying to finalise our agenda for the World Health Assembly," she said, referring to health agency's annual meeting, which has been shortened this year because of the Covid-19 outbreak and was set to end later today.
"I am sure in the course of the day we will have more clarity and reaction to this letter," she told reporters at a regular UN briefing in Geneva.
Mr Trump posted a letter to WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, dated yesterday, on his Twitter page overnight.
Among other things, Mr Trump pointed to his decision to suspend US contributions to the WHO pending a review of its actions in response to the outbreak. He faulted its "repeated missteps" in the response to the pandemic, saying they have proven "very costly for the world".
CZECH REPUBLIC
The Czech Republic's foreign minister says his country and Austria are aiming at reopening their common border that was closed due to the coronavirus pandemic in the middle of June.
Foreign Minister Tomas Petricek says the Czech citizens will be allowed to travel to Austria and back without presenting a negative test on the coronavirus.
Mr Petricek said today the plan depends still on the development of the outbreak in the two countries.
Austria is the first neighbouring country that has such an agreement with the Czech Republic.
Mr Petricek said the Czechs hope that another neighbour, Slovakia will join the two countries and reopen the borders with them by the same date.
More talks with Slovakia and with other neighbouring countries, including Germany and Poland on the issue are yet to be held.
POLAND
Poland's national carrier PLL LOT says it is extending its ban on international flights for two more weeks, until June 14, but is resuming some domestic flights June 1.
The airline said on Twitter that the "current pandemic situation and the continuing lockdown of borders in many countries" was behind the decision to ground international flights for 14 more days.
Domestic daily flights will resume June 1 between cities with a "stable epidemiology situation", and will link Warsaw with Gdansk, Krakow, Wroclaw, Poznan, Szczecin Rzeszow and Zielona Gora. There will also be a daily flight between Krakow and Gdansk.
LOT says that for security reasons the passengers will be obliged to wear masks during the flight, the crew will be wearing masks and gloves, and snacks will be served in individual packages.
The aircraft have been equipped with High Efficiency Particulate-Air filters and will be disinfected on a regular basis.
In line with recommendations from international flight authorities, passengers will have their temperature taken upon entering terminals, will be obliged to keep social distancing in the terminal and during boarding, and to help that purpose shops and boutiques will remain closed. Online check-in is expected to be made obligatory.
INDIA
The number of coronavirus cases in India has surged past 100,000, and infections are on the rise in the home states of the migrant workers who left cities and towns during the nationwide lockdown.
India's Health Ministry reported a total of 101,139 cases and 3,163 deaths linked to Covid-19.
Since last week, India has averaged almost 4,000 new cases a day. The country's worst-affected state, Maharashtra, has reported more than 35,000 cases and 1,249 fatalities.
The recent surge in recorded infections has largely been attributed to an increase in testing. Health experts, however, worry that India is still lagging behind in that area. The country has one of the lowest testing rates in the world, with only 1.5 samples tested per 1,000 people, compared to 32 in the United States.
India extended its lockdown on Sunday to May 31 but gave power to states to allow the reopening of businesses to spur economic activity.
MEXICO
A registry of death certificates in Mexico City suggests there have been 4,577 cases in which doctors mentioned coronavirus or Covid-19 as a possible or probable cause of death, more than three times the official count.
The federal government acknowledges only 1,332 confirmed deaths in Mexico City due to Covid-19 since the pandemic began.
Mexicans Against Corruption said it obtained access to a database of death certificates issued in Mexico City between March 18 and May 12. They said it showed that in explanatory notes attached to 4,577 death certificates, doctors included the words Sars, COV2, COV, Covid-19 or new coronavirus.
The virus' technical name is SARS-CoV-2. The notes the group counted included terms such as "suspected", "probable" or "possible" when describing the virus' role in the deaths. In 3,209 certificates, it was listed as a suspected contributing factor along with other causes of death, such as pneumonia, respiratory failure, septic shock or multiple organ failure.
Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum has acknowledged there are more virus-related deaths than officially reported, and has said a special commission will review the death figures.
HONG KONG
Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam says the territory is ramping up testing, especially for workers at the busy international airport and caregivers at homes for the elderly and disabled.
Ms Lam said that tests would be increased from 4,500 to 7,000 daily with both the government health department and university laboratories taking part.
Hong Kong has gone several days without new local infections, but a recent family cluster has increased concerns about those who show no symptoms passing the virus on to others, something the authorities hope can be remedied by increased testing.
Speaking to reporters at a routine morning briefing, Ms Lam said a decision would soon be made on whether to extend social distancing rules set to expire on Thursday.
US
University of Notre Dame officials say the US school's campus will reopen to students on August 10, with social distancing, a mask requirement, and testing and contact tracing to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Notre Dame's president, Father John Jenkins, said the Indiana-based university will open to students two weeks earlier than originally scheduled.
He said there will not be an autumn break and the semester will end before Thanksgiving.
"Bringing our students back is in effect assembling a small city of people from many parts of the nation and the world, who may bring with them pathogens to which they have been exposed," Fr Jenkins said in a statement. "We recognise the challenge, but we believe it is one we can meet."
NICARAGUA
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is blaming coronavirus-related health monitoring measures taken by neighbouring Costa Rica for his country's decision to close their two border crossings.
In a nationally televised address, Mr Ortega said more than 1,000 lorries were stranded on Nicaraguan roads.
The dispute boiled over after Costa Rica on May 8 began testing all lorry drivers entering the country for Covid-19.
Costa Rica said 61 hauliers had so far tested positive, most trying to enter from Nicaragua.
