Johnson urged everyone to adhere to the lockdown and be patient. The prime minister spent days in intensive care and another two weeks recovering from the coronavirus.
The prime minister, who spent three days in intensive care and another two weeks recovering from the disease, warned that any letup in efforts to halt it risked "a new wave of death and disease."
In a nationwide television address, Giuseppe Conte said that a phased lifting of restrictions would begin May 4, and if all goes well, most would end by June 1.
NPR's Noel King talks to Nicaraguan poet Gioconda Belli about how the country is handling the corornavirus pandemic. She likens the country's response to the outbreak as dark magical realism.
Sweden has employed a controversial coronavirus response strategy of imposing only limited restrictions. The country's ambassador to the U.S. says the approach is having success.
After mounting pressure from parents, the Spanish government announced last week that starting Sunday, children could leave the house for one hour each day.
Army captain Tom Moore is the oldest artist to top the BBC's singles chart, with a singalong cover of "You'll Never Walk Alone." He raised millions for the NHS by walking laps around his garden.
U.S. officials and firms are pressuring Mexico to open up factories vital to North American supply chains, despite a number of worker deaths from COVID-19.