Coronavirus updates: Worshippers return to Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque

The German Bundesliga continued with five games on Saturday, with Robert Lewandowski scoring twice as Bayern Munich won 5-0 at home to Fortuna Dusseldorf to move 10 points clear at the top of the table.

Second-placed Borussia Dortmund can cut Bayern’s lead to seven points with five games remaining as they visit bottom club Paderborn on Sunday (17: 00 BST) but Bayern look set to secure an eighth successive title at the end of June.

This was their fourth straight victory since the Bundesliga season restarted earlier this month, scoring 13 goals and conceding just two.

Borussia Mönchengladbach can go third if they win at home to Union Berlin in Sunday’s other game (14: 30 BST).

School governors want ministers to drop plans for all primary pupils in England to return before the summer holidays.

The first wave of children is due back on Monday but the government wants all primary pupils in class for the last four weeks of term.

This ambition piles pressure on schools “when actually it wouldn’t be safe”, said Emma Knights, chief executive of the National Governance Association.

Ministers say the return of all pupils will depend on updated safety advice.

Last week Schools Minister Nick Gibb told MPs any decision on whether all pupils should return would be led by the science, and no decision had as yet been made.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said this was a “sensitive moment” for the UK as he defended government plans to ease lockdown restrictions, despite several scientists speaking out against the move.

He told the BBC’s Andrew Marr programme the government had been listening to the views of different scientists who did not all agree.

Raab said the country was now transitioning from level four to level three of the Covid-19 alert system. He said the easing of measures was only being taken because the government had met its five targets.

The government “wanted to avoid a re-entering of the lockdown”, he said, but with the track, trace and test system a targeted approach could be taken.

“We have definitely got the ability and we will target specific settings or particular regions or geographic areas – and that gives us the confidence to take sure footed steps forward.”

Read our guide on how to socialise under the new rules here.

Labour whip Rosie Duffield was “absolutely right to resign” for breaching lockdown rules, a fellow shadow cabinet member has said.

Duffield, MP for Canterbury, has apologised after she met her partner while they were living separately, in breach of restrictions.

Shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds told the Andrew Marr Show: “It is absolutely correct that she has immediately taken responsibility for that and resigned.

“It is critically important – I have talked to my constituents about the sacrifices they have made – to stick to the rules to keep us all safe.”

Some children in England will be going back to school on Monday, but what are the risks to pupils and staff?

Following a heated debate, the government published the advice it received from scientists on what is known about the impact of more children returning to the classroom.

Across the UK, 0.01% of deaths have been children under 15, 1% were aged 15-44 and about 75% were over 75. But can children pass on the virus to others?

Click here to read more

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he did not know that the prime minister’s aide Dominic Cummings had travelled to Durham while he was filling in for Boris Johnson during his coronavirus illness.

There have been calls for Mr Cummings to resign after it was revealed he had travelled to his family’s home in Durham from London during lockdown, as well as making a 60-mile round trip from there to Barnard Castle “to test his eyesight”.

Mr Raab told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday he had only known Mr Cummings was “out of action”.

He said: “I just knew that he was out of action because he had come down with coronavirus.

“Given the situation we were in with the prime minister taken ill, and very seriously ill as it later emerged, I was just focused with the government and with a great cabinet team and we continued to focus relentlessly on dealing with the virus.”

Sport returned to Las Vegas overnight as Brazil’s Gilbert Burns defeated US former welterweight champion Tyron Woodley in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

As with the UFC’s recent live events in Florida, there were no fans in attendance at the UFC Apex facility and social distancing measures were in place.

The Nevada State Athletic Commission last week gave the go-ahead for combat sports to return to Vegas.

Boxing promoter Bob Arum’s Top Rank has lined up cards to be held at the MGM Grand Conference Center, starting with USA’s WBO featherweight champion Shakur Stevenson taking on Puerto Rican Felix Caraballo in a non-title bout on 9 June.

Singapore’s health ministry has confirmed another 518 coronavirus new cases, bringing its total number to 34,884.

This is a slight reduction from last week, 24 May, when 548 new daily cases were confirmed.

The vast majority of the new cases are among migrant workers living in overcrowded dormitories, the ministry said.

Last month, Minister of Manpower Josephine Teo said about 200,000 migrant workers are living in just 43 dorm blocks. Each dorm itself houses between 10 and 20 residents.

Singapore is getting ready to ease some of its lockdown restrictions. From this week, some workers will be able to return to their offices and people can visit parents and grandparents. But many rules, including a ban on overseas visitors, remain.

As the crisis has unfolded, scientists have discovered more evidence about a strange and worrying feature of the coronavirus.

While many people who become infected develop a cough, fever and loss of taste and smell, others have no symptoms at all and never realise they’re carrying Covid-19.

Researchers say it’s vital to understand how many are affected this way and whether “silent spreaders” are fuelling the pandemic.

Click here to read more from BBC’s science editor David Shukman on how the authorities in Singapore used contact tracing to find out how the virus spread there, and what governments have learned from it as lockdown measures are eased.

Scotland’s First Minister has been on Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme where she warned that there was still a “very significant risk that the virus could run out of control again”.

She said that was why Scotland was going to be “moving very cautiously” in easing lockdown restrictions.

Sturgeon also said that there should be a clear distinction between politicians making decisions and scientists advising.

It was elected officials who should take responsibilities and not scientists, she said.

She said she felt “deep personal regret” over the number of people dying in Scottish care homes and said she was making the hardest decisions of her career.

• Domestic competitive sport behind closed doors will be allowed in the UK from Monday, with horse racing and snooker resuming competitive action. The Premier League is due to restart on 17 June
• Championship club Preston have confirmed striker Jayden Stockley was one of 10 positive tests across eight teams in English football’s second tier in the latest round of testing on Thursday and Friday.
  Middlesbrough and Cardiff each confirmed one positive test.
  Four clubs took part from League Two, with seven positive tests, but there is no programme of testing for League One at present. There were no new positives from Premier League testing last week
• Cricket has finally been played in the British Isles this year, with the first game since the lockdown taking place in Guernsey.
  A T20 match was played in Castel on Saturday to raise money for the Covid-19 appeal, with a live stream attracting more than 84,000 views on YouTube.
  County cricket in England is suspended until August, although it is hoped England can play Tests in July

Hundreds of people in Argentina have taken part in protests against the country’s strict lockdown, demanding officials end the measures that were first introduced more than two months ago.

Demonstrators in Buenos Aires and several other cities accused President Alberto Fernandez of acting like a dictator, and called for businesses to reopen.

A small number also held signs repeating debunked conspiracy theories about vaccines and 5G networks.

About 500 people have died of coronavirus in Argentina and the country has had about 16,000 confirmed cases.

A 65-year-old driver in Rwanda has died of coronavirus – the country’s first official death with the virus.

The country’s health ministry said in a statement that the driver had returned to Rwanda from a neighbouring country, where he lived, after becoming severely ill.

He then died of severe respiratory complications while receiving treatment at a specialised Covid-19 facility.

The East African nation has had 359 confirmed cases of the virus.

Protests across the US are escalating in response to the killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis.

In Los Angeles, officials have closed down the city’s Covid-19 testing centres. LA Mayor Eric Garcetti told reporters this was a safety precaution, adding: “Now is the time to go home. Come back, protest peacefully when there is peace.”

Cities across the US have imposed curfews in an attempt to contain the demonstrations, and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz called on protesters to wear protective masks and socially distance.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo tweeted about systemic racism in the US, linking the collective anger at George Floyd’s death to African Americans being disproportionately more likely to die of the coronavirus.

The failings of the UK’s testing and tracing policy as well as freedoms allowed by the easing of lockdown measures lead the UK’s Sunday papers.

The Sunday People says the system is a “national disgrace” while the Sunday Telegraph reports that the policy was abandoned in the early days of the pandemic as the system could only cope with five cases a week.

Despite the prime minister’s plea to move on from the Dominic Cummings saga, his aide still appears on the front of the Observer and the Mail on Sunday.

The latter says Boris Johnson has rebuked Mr Cummings for the media storm surrounding his lockdown trip to Durham.

And for those who are missing Brexit talk, the Sunday Times splashes on the European Union’s chief negotiator warning the prime minister to keep his promises or face a no-deal exit.

Pictures from the protests and riots in the US also feature on many front pages as well as the launch of the SpaceX rocket.

After being closed for two months due to coronavirus, al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem has started welcoming worshippers again.

The mosque is the third-holiest site in Islam, after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.

Hundreds of people – many of whom wore protective masks – chanted “god is great” as they stood at the mosque’s wooden doors, while some kissed the ground. They were then greeted by mosque director Omar al-Kiswani, who thanked them for being patient.

Here are some photos of the mosque’s reopening.

If you’re joining us from the UK and Europe – good morning, and good afternoon if you’re in Asia or Australia. Today’s rolling coverage of the coronavirus pandemic is going to be brought to you by our team in London.

Here are the latest headlines, to catch you up:

• The number of confirmed cases of the virus worldwide has now exceeded six million, according to the tally kept by US-based Johns Hopkins University. More than 369,000 people globally have died
• US President Donald Trump has postponed the G7 summit scheduled for June. He had hoped to hold some gatherings in person at Camp David and the White House, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she wouldn’t go because of the outbreak
• New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has said the ongoing unrest, sparked by the killing of George Floyd by policemen in Minneapolis, is linked to the disproportionate deaths of African-Americans of coronavirus. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz called on protesters to wear masks and try to socially distance
• The third holiest site in Islam, the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, has reopened after being closed for two months. Hundreds of worshippers – wearing protective masks – chanted “god is great” as they entered the mosque, while some kissed the ground
• Rio de Janeiro is planning a six-phase easing of lockdown restrictions, according to local media. Brazil is the epicentre of the virus in Latin America, with the second-highest number of confirmed cases in the world. Its death toll is now higher than France
• Belgian Prince Joachim, 28, has contracted coronavirus after going to a party in Córdoba, Spain during lockdown. Spanish police have launched an investigation into the party – anyone found to have broken lockdown rules could be fined up to €10,000 (£9,000; $11,100)