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The BBC Health team talks through the NHS advice about protecting yourself from COVID-19.

The current best guess of a 1% death rate does not apply to everyone.

South Korea is testing more people per capita than anywhere else - and could be a role model for others.

The World Health Organisation's advice is difficult to follow in some developing countries.

How do we keep fit while heeding the government's new advice on avoiding unnecessary social contact?

Funerals have been banned in Italy - robbing many families of the chance to say a final goodbye.

Millions of Indians who rely on daily wages from jobs like cleaning risk running out of money.

Europeans face a blizzard of restrictions on their freedoms as authorities try to stop the spread.

The BBC's Fergus Walsh meets medics treating patients with Covid-19 at University College Hospital London.

The UK's chief medical adviser says there's "a lot to learn" from Germany, so what has it been doing?

Chicagoans are racing to make personal protective equipment for frontline workers.

A surge in cases of Covid-19 will push the continent's health infrastructure to the limit.

Tens of thousands are calling helplines and thousands are going to bed hungry as India shuts down.

Danish schools will reopen soon, but curbs will only be lifted gradually.

Some people might want to consider it during the pandemic. Here's why.

There's still plenty of dangerous and untested medical advice circulating online.

PM Scott Morrison said wide usage would be the "ticket" to normal life resuming as soon as possible.

If the Isle of Wight trial is successful, the app could be ready nationwide within weeks, ministers say.

Scientists predict the explosive behaviour of two supermassive black holes almost to the hour.

Ministers are reportedly considering relaxing the two-metre rule for social distancing in workplaces.

The identity of the "intermediate host" animal that first passed the coronavirus to a human may never be found, say scientists.

New scientific research, from Germany of all places, suggests English footballers are actually good at spot-kicks.

Public transport usage won't recover to pre-Covid19 levels once the lockdown ends, a survey suggests.

We look at how hot the world has got and what can we can all do to tackle global warming.

Areas such as India, Australia and Africa are predicted to be among the worst affected.

BBC News looks at what we know and don't know about the Earth's changing climate.

How the global pandemic is limiting carbon emissions and what this will mean for climate change.

US space agency satellites follow the melting trends in Antarctica and Greenland over 16 years.

Prof Neil Ferguson, who advised ministers on coronavirus, says he "made an error of judgement".

The North Magnetic Pole has been racing across the top of the world, from Canada towards Siberia.

Bicycle shops across the UK say demand for new bikes, and repairs for old ones, has risen sharply.

The former Bank of England governor says countries should invest in a cleaner economic recovery.

A chronology of key events

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