Updated: May 1, 2023
1. Restaurants, cafés and shops can now open in Australia's most populous state, but with strict distancing rules
2. The WHO has warned nearly a quarter of a billion people in Africa could catch the virus in a year
3. Covid-19 has made its way into the world's biggest refugee camp, in Bangladesh
4. A US whistleblower and virus expert has said "lives were lost" because of early government inaction
5. A survey suggests one in every 400 people in England is infected with the virus
6. Japan has lifted the state of emergency in 39 prefectures, after a sharp fall in new infections
7. More than 1.5m people have recovered from the virus worldwide, but 300,000 people have died
Steve Simmonds
Worldwide Breaking News