New guidance issued by the College of Policing says officers in England have "no powers" to enforce two metre social distancing.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has flown to Israel for socially-distanced meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his new coalition partner Benny Gantz.
Pompeo got off his plane at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport wearing a red, white and blue face mask.
Austria and Germany have agreed to open their borders in two steps: some restrictions will be lifted on Friday before a full reopening on 15 June.
Germany has seen 798 new infections over the past 24 hours, authorities said on Wednesday. The daily death toll rose by 101 to 7,634. Both numbers are in line with the past days' statistics.
The overall number of confirmed infections now stands at more than 171,000, according to official data. Most people though have recovered already and there are only about 18,000 active cases.
Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia will open their borders to each other from Friday - creating a so-called Baltic bubble.
Beaches on France's north-west coast will start reopening on Wednesday but gatherings of more than eight people are banned.
Belgium's only naturist beach at Bredene won't open at all this year.
Police in Paris had to evacuate the steps of the Sacré-Cœur on Tuesday night because too many people had gathered.
Sweden’s government has promised to fund training for 10,000 healthcare assistants and care home nurses, after criticism of how it handled the spread of coronavirus among the elderly.
Australia says it's had no known cases of a rare new syndrome affecting children that has been linked to coronavirus.
Singapore has sentenced a US pilot to four weeks in prison for breaking his mandatory quarantine.
Health officials in South Sudan have for the first time confirmed cases of coronavirus in camps for people displaced by conflict.
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