Police to enforce UK lockdown; US president tells country not to blame Asian Americans; UN calls for global ceasefire; WHO says virus accelerating. Follow the latest updates

We’ll be moving away from US developments now for a moment.

In Tokyo Olympics news – though there is still no official announcement that the games have been postponed, Japanese Olympics Minister Seiko Hashimoto has told reporters that the world needs to put an end to the coronavirus before the Tokyo Games can be held in their “complete form”.

Washington state’s inclusion in the list of US states under stay home order brings the portion of the country being asked to shelter in place to around 40% of the United States, or more than 130 million people.

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