UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock says testing will be expanded to all care home residents and staff.
Daily figures of deaths in care homes will be published from Wednesday.
Figures show a third of all virus deaths in England and Wales are now occurring in care homes.
UK hospital death toll now 21,678, a rise of 586 on the previous day.
France's PM Edouard Philippe says 62,000 lives were saved in a single month during lockdown.
He told the French assembly that shops would reopen on 11 May but not bars and restaurants.
US House of Representatives abandons plans to return to Washington next week on medical advice.
Global virus cases pass 3 million, with more than 200,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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