The total number of people known to have died around the world from the virus is now more than 206,000 according to figures collated byjohns Hopkins University in the united states. The us has suffered more than a quarter of those total deaths 54,000. Here in the uk, 413 deaths in hospital were announced on sunday. Thats a decrease on the few days before although delays in reporting over the weekend may be understating the true number. Spain, which has had one of the strictest lockdowns in europe, is now allowing children to leave their homes for the first time in six weeks. And the government is hoping to extend the relaxation further, so that everyone can exercise outside. There have been more than 23,000 confirmed virus related deaths in the country. 288 died in the last twenty four hours but thats the lowest number in well over a month. Damian grammaticas has more from madrid. Released. After 42 days cooped up inside. All six members of this family, finally today able to get out of their apartment block. Spains lockdown rules banned children from going outside. So while the boys played cluedo, the six year old had the balcony as her playroom. But today, spain relaxed those rules. Eight million children, freed from their confinement. Translation i was bored inside. I dont like it. I want to be outside. Now they can, for an hour a day. And this is what the boys have missed most, a kickabout. For them, it was the hardest thing. Yeah. Playing football, they love it. They. They miss it really much. They couldnt do this in your apartment. No, no, no they are not allowed to do it. I couldnt go out for 40 days. Well, me and all my family are people who like to go out and have fun outside. But this opening up is limited. Almost everyone in spain is still confined, allowed out only for essential tasks. Spain has some of the toughest lockdown restrictions of any country in europe. Its why its still so quiet here. If the rate of infections continues to decline, though, the Prime Minister says adults may be allowed out to exercise, but only in a weeks time. Today, though, was the childrens day, marias day. For six weeks, maria and pablo had been stuck with a tantalising view of the park across the road. And thats what she made a beeline for as soon as she was outside. Papa, the four year old says, look at this, look at this look what i have for mum. Before heading off to pick some more. Spains moves are cautious. More than 23,000 people have died here, and no one wants to take risks. Translation of course its worrying. A lot of people have been infected and we worry about the older generation. At least paloma can now catch up with friends from a distance, while maria gets used to life in a mask and the smalljoys of being outside. Damian grammaticas, bbc news, madrid. Italys Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, has announced an easing of his countrys coronavirus lockdown measures from next month. He says takeaway food outlets can reopen, and visits to relatives in small numbers can resume. But schools will remain shut, and social distancing will be in force for months. Heres our correspondent in rome, mark lowen its almost seven weeks to the day, tomorrow will be seven weeks since italy became the first country to impose a National Lockdown since the coronavirus pandemic began and now Giuseppe Conte has laid out a roadmap for unlocking italy. 0n the fourth of may, there will be various things allowed parks will reopen, funerals will be allowed to resume, albeit with a maximum of 15 people. Bars and restaurants will be allowed to offer takeaways again. Manufacturing, construction and wholesale business will be able to restart. People will be able to move around again within their own regions, but not beyond, and they will be allowed to visit family members but will have wear face masks and no large social gatherings will be allowed. And individual sport will be allowed, so people will be able to go out running and individual athletes will be able to train behind closed doors. Then two weeks later, there will be a further relaxing in which smaller Construction Companies will be allowed to restart, libraries and museums will reopen and sports teams can practice then behind closed doors. Then on the first ofjune, that is the date currently planned for bars, cafes, restaurants, hairdressers and beauty salons to reopen. Schools will remain closed until september. A senior doctor on the white house covid i9 Task Force Says she believes social distancing will be needed throughout the summer. Dr deborah birx was responding to remarks by Vice President , mike pence, that he thought the epidemic would be mostly over by the end of may. In an interview on nbcs meet the press, dr birx said however, that the infection rates in some cities appear to have peaked. Its very much based on detroit, louisiana and other groups, and then looking at seattle, that never really reached a peak and has never really had a large outbreak, and trying to understand what we can do as a people to ensure social distancing will be with us through the summer, to really ensure that we protect one another. New york state remains the epicentre of the outbreak in the us, the virus has killed nearly 17,000 people there. Im joined by bridget mulrooney, a covid i9 nurse, im joined by bridget mulrooney, a covid i9 nurse, in harlem, new york city, whos worked as an Emergency Responder in west africa during the ebola outbreak. Bridget thank you forjoining us bridget thank you forjoining us and giving us some of your time. You have worked in disaster zones, you have worked in the ebola outbreak. How does this pandemic compare . In the ebola outbreak. How does this pandemic compare . |i in the ebola outbreak. How does this pandemic compare . I have been doing outbreak since 2010. This is, it is very much different. It is the people that are responding and how giant this epidemic is. For ebola, everybody that went to help, they were mainly humanitarians or Disaster Response people, and for america response, it is anybody who has hands was willing to go and they need the numbers. Everybodys just trying to do their best. You see what most people are not seeing. They will look out the window and see empty streets and closed shops. You are seeing inside hospitals, inside the front lines. Ijust wonder if hospitals, inside the front lines. I just wonder if you hospitals, inside the front lines. Ijust wonder if you can explain to our viewers what it is that you see day today. Absolutely. We are seeing a lot of the elderly population, people with comorbidities, u nfortu nately, most of people with comorbidities, unfortunately, most of the people are at the end stages of life. They are in the hospital. If you are healthy enough to stay home, people stay home. What we see is people alone at the bedside is struggling to breathe and over 3 four day period, drowning in their secretions and dying alone or we also see the other side, the people in their 40s and 50s that come in with cirrhosis or Something Else and we call them the walkie talkies because they can get up and move and they are usually yelling about the tv and then you go to check on them and they are dead. It is a horrific disease that is taking peoples lives and unless it is affecting you personally, people are not taking it serious enough. As you were talking we were looking at some pictures of you working in the us and in other places wearing personal protective gear. That is your defence, that is your armour against potentially contract the disease yourself. How much are you concerned for your own safety when you are treating your patients . To me, i dont know if i have had covid or not. I dont think that i have but i could have been asymptomatic, nobody knows. I am very rigourous about wearing my ppe. I have never once contracted anything in any outbreak i have ever been in. When i am at the bedside, ifeel like i am properly covered and i can stay at the bedside longer than people that are scared about contracting covid. I do feel quite safe and we have been gifted giant face shields so evenif gifted giant face shields so even if patients are coughing and coughing on top of you, it is not getting into any skin that you have showing when you wear that, those goggles. So i feel quite safe all the time. And at the end i hear you do 13 hour shifts and then you get into transport that takes you and your colleagues back to our hotel. I do. The company i am with is providing transport to and from. I am working six days and from. I am working six days a week. At makes me wonder how you unwind and how you deal with the kind of things that you are seeing and the stress that you are under. If you are really just shuttling that you are under. If you are reallyjust shuttling between work and home. It is a great support system with all the other nurses. We laugh and joke about anything that happens thatis about anything that happens that is fun in the day. You have to keep the humour alive. We are in no way making fun of covid but you have to have a positive attitude if you want to bring that to the patients and on my days off it is sweatpa nts, and on my days off it is sweatpants, i lay in bed, i keep my feet off and i do not wear a mask because i am inside andi wear a mask because i am inside and i enjoy every second of it and i enjoy every second of it and it goes by really fast. Well, i am glad to hear you are able to relax. Thank you for yourtime, able to relax. Thank you for your time, bridget. Youre welcome. Just going to move away from the coronavirus for a moment to reflect on some important developments in the middle east. A separatist group called the Southern Transitional council has declared a state of self rule in yemen. Its caused a rift between the group and Government Forces, who had been fighting alongside one another in the ongoing civil war with houthi rebels. Rich preston has this report. The announcement came early on sunday morning as troops from the Southern Transitional council rolled through the port city of aden, saying they were taking over the area, defying a peace deal put in place last november. Translation we are now in front of the Yemeni Central Bank in aden after it was taken back by the Southern Forces led by the Southern Transitional council, like the other vital infrastructures here. Yemens government called it an act of armed rebellion and warned of catastrophic repercussions. This latest confrontation only adds to yemens problems. It is already locked in a bitter civil war between Government Forces backed by saudi arabia and houthi rebels, who are backed by iran, a war lasting five years, that has killed tens of thousands of civilians and pushed millions to the brink of starvation. The stc claim to have taken control of the southern port city of aden, a vital city in the governments fight against the houthis, who control much of the north, including the capital, sanaa. The stc had been fighting alongside Government Forces in the war against the houthis. This act against the government is a blow for the coalition and its saudi backers. The stc believe the south of the country should be an independent state and say their former allies in the government have conspired against them, causing tensions to grow, in what is being called a civil war within a civil war. Stay with us on bbc news, still to come stay at home heroes. The would be marathon runners finding another way to raise money for good causes. Nothing it seemed was too big to withstand the force of the tornado. The extent of the devastation will lead to renewed calls for government help to build better housing. Internationally, there have already been protests. Sweden says it received no warning of the accident. Indeed, the russians at first denied anything had gone wrong. Only when radioactivity levels began to increase outside russia were they forced to admit the accident. For the mujahideen, the mood here is of great celebration. This is the end of a 12 year war for them, theyve taken the capital, which theyve been fighting for for so long. It was 7am, the day when power began to pass on the minority to the majority, when africa, after 300 years, reclaimed its last white colony. This is bbc news, the top story children in spain have been allowed out for the first time in six weeks after deaths from covid 19 fell to their lowest level in more than a month. Coronavirus is continuing its spread around the world, with almost three million confirmed cases, in 185 countries. In a moment, well hear from our correspondents in caracas, moscow and nairobi. But first, laura bicker reports from seoul in south korea, where the government acted quickly, in testing people for the disease. The country used aggressive testing and tracing methods to isolate infected patients. First came a test. Within weeks, they had a test kit, and 600 testing stations around the country. Anyone could get a test. Then came Contact Tracing. They used a mixture of interviews and technology to find out where infected patients had been. That information was then sent out as emergency alerts. These measures appear to have worked, for now, but Health Officials say now is not the time to be complacent, and they still fear a second wave. Brazil, with more than 3,500 deaths, is still the worst hit country in latin america. As the death toll has risen, so has criticism to jair bolsonaro. The brazilian president has continually dismissed and downplayed the risks of the virus. Second on the list is ecuador, where the number of confirmed cases doubled this week. But authorities there say this spike was because of an increase in testing. Here in venezuela, and indeed across the region, governments are beginning to ease strict lockdowns, and that decision seems largely economic. Here, the pandemic has hit the poorest part, the millions who rely on low paid and informal work, and they are demanding to get back to work. Well, here in russia, the official number of fatalities from the coronavirus, over 700, is far less than in western europe or america. But there is concern that not all covid related deaths have been included in the statistics. Also, russian officials are warning that we havent seen the peak of the epidemic here yet. Already, though, the Russian Health system is feeling the strain. There are reports from around the country of shortages of medical equipment and of protective clothing, and concern, too, in the Business Community that the russian governments package of aid falls far short of the kind of bailouts on offer in the west. The response in most african countries has been swift and hard. South africa, ghana and nigeria have sent out thousands of Health Workers into communities under lockdown to carry out mass screening to identify potential cases for testing, and theyve been finding many positive cases who are asymptomatic. But on the other end of the spectrum, you have the likes of tanzania where the president has urged people to go to places of worship and pray covid 19 away. Anne soy reporting from nairobi, along with Steve Rosenberg in moscow, Guillermo Moreno in caracas and laura bicker in seoul. A million australians have downloaded and registered with a new coronavirus Contact Tracing app in the first few hours of its release. The app was launched as parts of the country start to ease lockdown rules. But the technology isnt without controversy, as reged ahmad reports. Contact tracing technology its being hailed by some as the way out of lockdown. Loudspeaker New South Wales government regulation. We will have to close the beach. In australia, some states are to relax their strict guidelines, as covid 19 case numbers remain low, and the government hopes to keep it that way by launching a new Contact Tracing app called covidsafe. It uses bluetooth to log when someones been close to an infected person. Authorities want a 40 take up to make it effective. Covidsafe is based on an app singapore is already using, and governments around the world are working on developing their own. Here in the uk, those behind a soon to be released National Health service app say it will be key to getting out of lockdown, but will rely on a high take up. The app is going to be one of the Building Blocks of how to get out of the epidemic. And we have sort of two estimates. We found that when we projected over the next three months, for every 1 2 users who download the app and who adhere to the instructions, it will prevent one infection. And we found that, for this intervention alone to stop resurgence of the epidemic, about 60 of the population would have to use the app. And, for many, privacy remains a major concern. Australias app is voluntary, and the government says it has put multiple safeguards in place. But Civil Liberties groups there and around the world say there are still real questions to be answered about the potential for government surveillance, and whether personal data can be kept safe. An app may also not be enough on its own. In germany, the government says it is still hiring a large Contact Tracing team, along with developing its own technology. We think a ratio of roughly a team of five for 20,000 people is roughly what we have to come up with. Thats a huge number. Proponents of Contact Tracing apps say it is the best way out of lockdown. By identifying and isolating new cases, a second wave of infections could be avoided. But the challenge may well be winning over a public used to privacy. When the pandemic struck, one group of dutch schoolchildren had a problem. They had been on a sailing expedition around the caribbean but all flights home were cancelled, leaving them stranded. Instead, the group decided to continue with their sailing adventure, as the bbcs tim allman explains. Its fair to say,