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| - Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis. The coronavirus has killed at least 313,611 people worldwide since it surfaced in China late last year, according to an AFP tally at 1900 GMT on Sunday based on official sources. There have been at least 4,680,700 officially recorded cases in 196 countries and territories. The United States has recorded the most deaths at 89,207. It is followed by Britain with 34,636, Italy with 31,908, France with 28,108 and Spain with 27,650. German football champions Bayern Munich play their first match in more than two months as the Bundesliga over the weekend becomes the first top European league to resume since lockdown, with matches taking place in vacant, echoing stadiums. Bayern beat Union Berlin 2-0. In Britain, Premier League clubs hope for a return to socially distanced training on Tuesday once a protocol of safety measures has been signed off at a meeting on Monday. La Liga in Spain tells clubs they will be able to increase training to involve groups of up to 10 players as of Monday. And the Spanish government announces protocol allowing training to be expanded by all clubs, even those in areas further behind in the country's de-escalation programme, which means teams like Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid will be able to train in groups of 10. India extends its lockdown to the end of May, as it reports its biggest single-day jump in cases. Schools, places of worship, shopping malls, cinemas and gyms must stay closed, bans on large gatherings for religious and sporting events will also be extended, and city metro train services and domestic and international air travel remain suspended. Restaurants will now be allowed to operate their kitchens for takeaway services while sports complexes and stadiums are permitted to host events, but without spectators. Latin America and the Caribbean have recorded more than 500,000 infections, according to an AFP tally based on official reports, with almost half of those recorded in Brazil. Former US President Barack Obama criticises the response to the pandemic, in what is widely regarded as a rare public rebuke of his successor Donald Trump. "More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing," Obama tells graduates at a virtual college commencement ceremony. Many leaders today "aren't even pretending to be in charge," he says. A top Chinese medical official says the country faces a potential second wave due to a lack of immunity among its population. "We are facing (a) big challenge," Zhong Nanshan, the public face of the government's response to the pandemic, tells CNN. "It's not better than the foreign countries I think at the moment." A 57-year-old hospital worker with underlying diabetes and high blood pressure is the first death of a patient suffering from the virus in Madagascar, coming nearly two months after COVID-19 was first detected in the country. burs-eab/bsp
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