Just in: China’s economy shrank for the first time in more than 40 years, with first quarter GDP falling 6.8% as coronavirus ended an era of uninterrupted growth. Follow our live coverage here: on.ft.com/3coJnrl 
Four weeks after imposing one of the world’s strictest lockdowns, New Zealand is on course to eliminate its coronavirus outbreak on.ft.com/3esAXRv
Despite claiming ‘total’ authority over post-outbreak planning, Donald Trump’s ‘phased’ new guidelines acknowledged that it was up to state governors to lift social distancing restrictions on.ft.com/2RI6mWk
Drive-in cinemas in South Korea are thriving after years of decline and months of restrictions on human-to-human contact due to coronavirus on.ft.com/2VBNWrr
Kazakhstan will invest in start-ups across south-east Asia to diversify central Asia’s largest economy away from oil and gas, where prices have been slammed by coronavirus on.ft.com/2RKpm6W
Gilead’s remdesivir drug has shown positive signs that it might be effective in treating coronavirus in a small study of patients on.ft.com/3epA10m
Wuhan has added another 1,290 fatalities to its official death count, South Korea suffered its worst monthly job losses in more than a decade and the Beijing-based AIIB doubled its virus funding to $10bn. Follow our live coverage here: ft.com/content/6bfcaa…
Foreign secretary Dominic Raab warned China there could be no return to ‘business as usual’ after coronavirus as he extended the UK’s lockdown by three weeks on Thursday ft.com/content/8c4625…
Although the UK’s lockdown might start to be eased next month, its legacy could endure in terms of unemployment, mental health and homeworking — as well as the rediscovery of the simpler things in life on.ft.com/2xB6xMs
‘As an Arab, other jobs are closed off to us, so we became doctors.’ Israel’s Arab medics have been called to the frontline to fight coronavirus on.ft.com/3agTXiT
Denmark’s move to reopen primary schools this week, the first European country to do so, will be heavily scrutinised as others examine how and when to lift coronavirus restrictions on.ft.com/34JKuiX
Even as US states focus on the battle against the pandemic, they are warning that lockdowns could blow a $500bn hole in tax revenues and force savage spending cuts on.ft.com/3ezlS0T
What are the latest figures?
Global new daily cases of Covid-19 rose by 81,419 on Thursday bringing the total to 2.11m. The death toll increased by 6,996 yesterday ft.com/coronavirus-la…
Global new daily cases of Covid-19 rose by 81,419 on Thursday bringing the total to 2.11m. The death toll increased by 6,996 yesterday ft.com/coronavirus-la…
A fierce debate is under way between those who believe that the current lockdowns across much of the world are an overreaction, and those who believe it would be barbaric to do anything other than try to avoid as many coronavirus deaths as possible ftalphaville.ft.com/2020/04/15/158…
The true death toll due to the coronavirus in care homes in England and Wales may be as high as 6,000, according to a well-respected healthcare consultancy, suggesting the government is seriously underestimating the crisis in residential care on.ft.com/2z9Ss9e
In the latest Coronavirus Business Update newsletter:
✅An FT poll shows two-thirds of Britons support the use of mobile phones for coronavirus contact tracing
✅Ford expects to report a $2bn loss in the first quarter due to plant shutdowns and low sales
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✅An FT poll shows two-thirds of Britons support the use of mobile phones for coronavirus contact tracing
✅Ford expects to report a $2bn loss in the first quarter due to plant shutdowns and low sales
on.ft.com/3aji1l9
A group representing 10m doctors around the world has censured the World Health Organization for being involved in 'political games' by excluding Taiwan, saying that its absence damaged the health body’s response to the coronavirus crisis on.ft.com/2RKcayA
