Boris Johnson will be questioned by senior MPs later about the government's handling of the pandemic. Inevitably, there'll be plenty of questions about his senior aide Dominic Cummings too, as anger over his decision to travel hundreds of miles during lockdown refuses to abate. More than 35 Tory MPs have now called for Mr Cummings to resign or be fired.

Appearances before the cross-party Liaison Committee are meant to be a regular occurrence for prime ministers. However, this will be Mr Johnson's first since taking office last July - something that's led to him being accused of dodging scrutiny. Read more on Mr Cummings' movements and his suggestion that coronavirus affected his eyesight.

Also on Wednesday, we'll get more details on plans to impose local lockdowns to deal with flare-ups of the virus in England. It could see schools, workplaces or wider areas shut down. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said it would be part of the test, track and trace system designed to prevent a second wave of infections. Scotland's version of the system will be launched on Thursday.

In other news, the charity that runs the national domestic abuse helpline is reporting a 10-fold increase in visits to its website in the past two weeks. Refuge says lockdown "can aggravate pre-existing behaviours in an abusive partner". 

Finally, the BBC has been given unprecedented access to a hospital in the heart of London for one week. Watch our first report.

Latin America has now become the centre of the pandemic, according to the chief of the Pan American Health Organization. Brazil has by far the highest recorded death toll in the region, and with the rate of testing very low, the true figure will inevitably be far higher. That's likely to be the case in other countries too - Venezuela to name one. 

President Donald Trump has introduced a travel ban on foreign nationals who've been to Brazil in the last 14 days. With 98,875 coronavirus deaths of its own, the US is nearing the grim milestone of 100,000 lives lost.

In Europe, Spain is beginning a 10-day period of national mourning in memory of the almost 30,000 people who have died. France has announced a bail-out for its struggling car industry, and Denmark has reopened its borders to couples who were divided by the lockdown. A number of other European countries are also considering relaxing border restrictions as the outbreak eases. 

In the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the pandemic began, authorities vowed to test the entire population in 10 days. That time period is now up, so did they manage it? Elsewhere in Asia, the BBC's Yogita Limaye finds out why India's financial capital and richest city has been hit so hard by coronavirus.

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Hairdressers are calling for ministers to bring forward the date when they're allowed to reopen - currently 4 July at the earliest. See why missing out on a trip to the barbers can affect more than just your 'do. Just like schools, many childminders kept working when lockdown was imposed, looking after the children of key workers and those classed as vulnerable. How have they approached the vexed questions of social distancing and hygiene with the tiniest of children? And finally, with concerts and music festivals cancelled around the world, musicians have been reviving the idea of the drive-in concert. See how it works.

There's no let-up in coverage of the Dominic Cummings row. "Tories revolt as voters turn on Cummings" is the Daily Telegraph's headline. The paper says it understands up to six cabinet members have said privately that Boris Johnson's senior aide should quit. The Daily Mirror's take on the story is "Farce and furious". The former chief superintendent of Durham Police tells the paper the situation reminds him of Watergate, where "the cover up is worse than the offence". Several front pages react to the approval of remdesivir for use by the NHS to treat patients. The drug promises a "big step forward in virus fight", the Times says, while the Daily Express reports that it "boosts virus survival hopes". Elsewhere, a plan to introduce a cut-off date for new entrants to the government's furlough scheme is in the pipeline, according to the Financial Times. The Daily Mail thinks that's likely to be in August.

From elsewhere

All parents are feeling the strain of educating their children at home, but for blind parents of sighted children the challenge can be even greater. BBC Radio 4's In Touch speaks to some of them. And the Coronavirus Newscast crew discuss the latest developments.

Two US astronauts will achieve a world first later when they set off for the International Space Station aboard a spacecraft built by Elon Musk's SpaceX. The BBC's Laura Foster has everything you need to know. Elsewhere, read the uplifting story of Andrew Flavin - a young man who spent most of his childhood in care, but found everything began to change when he discovered Northern Soul. Finally, new evidence is shedding light on what happened to the megafauna that used to roam Australia.