Coronavirus has infected more than 2.6 million people around the world, with the death toll passing 180,000.
Here are the latest updates on the pandemic from around the world:
AUSTRALIA
A cruise ship that is the subject of a criminal investigation after it became Australia's largest single source of coronavirus infections has set off from Australian shores a month after it was ordered by police to leave.
The Ruby Princess has been linked to 19 deaths in Australia and two in the US. Australia has recorded 75 Covid-19 deaths. A government inquiry is under way into why 2,700 passengers and crew were allowed to disembark in Sydney on March 19 before the results of swabs of sick passengers were known.
Many passengers flew from Sydney overseas. Two died at home in the US, including 64-year-old Los Angeles resident Chung Chen, whose family is suing Princess Cruises for more than a million dollars for failing to alert passengers to the risk.
JAPAN
Officials said 14 more crew members on an Italian-operated cruise ship docked in southern Japan have tested positive, bringing the total to 48.
The Costa Atlantica has been docked in Nagasaki since late January for repairs and maintenance by the Mitsubishi Heavy Industry. The ship has 623 crew members, including a Japanese translator, and no passengers. One of the infected crew members has since become seriously ill and was sent to hospital, where he is on a ventilator, Nagasaki officials said.
The remaining crew members are without serious symptoms and are being self-quarantined in single rooms on the ship, except for those on duties essential to keep the ship functioning, including cooking and delivering food for colleagues, officials said.
The new cases were among those on essential duties, the officials said. Officials plan to test all the remaining crew members by tomorrow.
INDONESIA
Authorities in the capital have extended enforceable restrictions as Muslims start their month-long fasting season.
Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan announced that a large-scale social restriction, which was initially slated to end today, will be extended to May 22 after consulting with health experts.
In a streamed-live media conference, Mr Baswedan urged Muslims to suspend religious activities in mosques during Ramadan in an attempt to break the transmission chain.
NEW ZEALAND
Officials announced just three new cases today as the number of new infections continues to trend downward.
Health officials also announced two additional deaths, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 1,451 and deaths to 16.
The country has been in a strict lockdown for the past month, which officials plan to begin easing a little next week.
CHINA
The country again reported no additional deaths and just 10 new cases, six brought from outside the country.
Numbers in hospital have dropped to 959, only 63 of which are considered serious cases, while just over 1,000 are under isolation and monitoring as suspected cases or for having tested positive for the virus without showing any symptoms.
SPAIN
Spain has recorded 440 new deaths overnight from the coronavirus bringing the total to 22,157, official data shows.
With more than 4,600 new positive infections tested, the reported cases are now over 200,000, although the real number is thought to be far higher because many people have not been tested and studies suggest that people can be infected without feeling sick.
Today, a new genetic study published by the Carlos III Institute, Spain's main epidemiology research centre, suggested that the coronavirus was spreading in the country since mid-February, weeks before the first local clusters were identified.
NORTH KOREA
North Korea has told the World Health Organization (WHO) it tested 740 people for the coronavirus as of April 17 but that all came back negative.
The North also said it has released 25,139 people from quarantine since December 31, according to Edwin Salvador, the WHO's representative to North Korea.
Mr Salvador said North Korea's health ministry has been sharing weekly updates with the WHO on its anti-virus efforts.
He said the WHO is engaging with North Korea's government to bring in anti-virus supplies, including protective gear and laboratory reagents, from the Chinese border town of Dandong.
