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By Victoria King

 
 

Impact on jobs

 
 
Coronavirus latest

Young adults aged between 18 and 24 are most likely to have lost work or had their incomes cut because of the coronavirus crisis, according to an independent think thank. The Resolution Foundation looked at more than 6,000 people at the beginning of May. Older workers have also been forced into premature retirement, it concluded. 

 

Latest official figures just published reveal unemployment jumped by 50,000 in the three months to March. The Office for National Statistics said that while the numbers only covered the very earliest part of the UK lockdown, it was clear the virus was having "a major impact on the labour market". 

 

The BBC has spoken to just three of the many made redundant, and separately, to MS sufferer Emma Timberlake who is among those classed as especially vulnerable to coronavirus but has also lost her job. 

 

Elsewhere, a committee of MPs has criticised the UK's approach to testing and warned that lessons may not have been learned. Testing has also been disparaged by NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts. It comes after Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced that anyone in the UK aged five and over with symptoms could now apply for a test. Read more on eligibility.

 

In other news, Northern Ireland has gone further than any other part of the UK in relaxing its lockdown - read more on how the rules there now differ. Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has backed plans to get some children back to school from 1 June. And from Tuesday, England's Premier League footballers can restart group training under strict conditions. A decision on whether or how to end the season is yet to be taken though.

 
 
 

Global headlines

 
 

The World Health Organization has agreed it will hold a global review of its handling of the pandemic following criticism from some nations. Chief among those critics is Donald Trump, who has renewed his claim that the WHO is a "puppet of China". He says he is giving the body 30 days to make "major changes" or his temporary freeze of US funding will be made permanent.  

 

The president also revealed he is taking the unproven anti-malarial medication hydroxychloroquine as a preventive treatment for Covid-19, despite medical warnings. BBC Reality Check has looked more closely at these sorts of drugs.

 

Elsewhere, in Chile's capital Santiago, protesters and police have clashed amid tension over food shortages in lockdown. Local officials say they cannot cope with demand for aid. A number of Latin American countries are struggling in similar ways with large poor populations and weak social systems. Brazil, meanwhile, has overtaken the UK in terms of reported virus infections and now has the third-highest toll of cases following the US and Russia.

 

Meanwhile, France and Germany are proposing a €500bn recovery fund for the worst affected EU countries. BBC Europe editor Katya Adler explains what's behind the move. And here we look at the impact of the crisis on Europe's food and agriculture industry

 

As usual follow our live page for more. Among our latest stories, learn why Sweden's handling of the virus in care homes is causing alarm, and how the crisis has led to a political resurrection for Australia's previously embattled president.

 
 
 

Light and dark

 
 

From miracle cures to co-ordinated hacking, the scammers and criminals that inhabit the "dark web" have found a new angle - anxiety over Covid-19. Our technology of business reporter lifts the curtain. In stark contrast, the online world is providing a lifeline for many disabled people, especially those left without carers. Welcome to one such community, The Bunker. And finally, to lift your spirits this morning, meet the children missing school dinner so much they asked for the recipe.

 
 
 
 

Separated by the virus (and 8,000 miles) from their newborn

 

When Flavia Lavorino decided to have a baby through surrogacy, she looked Ukraine up on a map and calculated the distance. Some 12,800km (8,000 miles) separate Buenos Aires, in Argentina, from the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. "This was our last resort and we jumped at it," says Flavia. Little could they predict that by the time the baby was born they would be stranded on the other side of the Atlantic due to the coronavirus pandemic. Their son Manuel is now seven weeks old, but they have yet to meet him.  

 
 
 
 
 
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Valeria Perasso

BBC World Service

 
 
 
 
 

What the papers say

 
 
Paper review

Discussions about the reopening of schools in England continue to rumble on. "When Will They Learn?" the Daily Mail asks teaching unions.  The paper presents evidence from 22 EU countries, which, it says, have found little or no risk to pupils, teachers or families. The Daily Mirror pictures staff making preparations, including putting down tape to mark two-metre boundaries to maintain social distancing. The Daily Telegraph reports that children who don't return to school may receive fewer online lessons because there aren't enough teachers to go round. Elsewhere, the new president of the Royal Society has given an interview to the Times in which he calls for politicians to "stop passing the buck" to scientists when making decisions. The Guardian leads on an unpublished government study which is said to reveal how agency care workers transmitted Covid-19 between residential homes. And finally, the Sun says people in the Lake District are going to extreme lengths to put off tourists, including makeshift road blocks and fake signs.

 
 
 

One thing not to miss

Did VE Day parties cause a spike in cases?
 
 
 
 

From elsewhere

 
 
 

Four ways economic crisis can change things for the better (The Conversation)

 
 
 
 

The questions teachers want Gavin Williamson to answer (TES)

 
 
 
 
 
 

The pandemic's geopolitical aftershocks are coming (The Atlantic)

 
 
 

Caring for the women having abortions during a pandemic (Refinery 29)

 
 
 
 

Listen up

 
 

BBC OS talks to mothers around the world who've given birth during the pandemic. And the Coronavirus Newscast team discusses summer holidays.

 
 
 

Need something different?

 
 

Following news of Michael Jordan's record-breaking $560,000 shoe sale, we explore how trainers became such a phenomenon - and ask how the planet can keep up with producing over a billion pairs a year. You can also enjoy some images from the first ever virtual Chelsea Flower Show.

 
 
 

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