Global deaths linked to the coronavirus have passed 240,000 and there have now been almost 3.5 million confirmed cases.
Here's the latest from around the world overnight.
Europe
France
France is intending to extend its health emergency for another two months, as a result of COVID-19.
The proposal will be presented to parliament next week.
Lockdown measures are expected to soften on May 11 - the same day New Zealand is expected to learn if it will move out of alert level 3.
Travellers to France, including French citizens returning home, will face a compulsory two-week quarantine and possible isolation when they arrive in the country to help slow the spread of coronavirus.
France has been the fifth-hardest hit country with 24,594 deaths.
United Kingdom
Boris Johnson and his fiancée Carrie Symonds have named their newborn son Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas, partly as a tribute to two of the intensive care doctors who they said had saved the British leader's life as he battled COVID-19 complications.
Symonds announced the name on Saturday on Instagram beside a picture of her and the boy, who already has thick hair resembling the blond thatch of his father.
Symonds, 32, said Wilfred, who was born on Wednesday, was named after Johnson's grandfather, while Lawrie came from her grandfather.
The choice of Nicholas, Symonds said, was a nod to Nick Price and Nick Hart - two doctors who the couple have praised for saving Johnson's life at St Thomas' hospital last month.
The UK's COVID-19 death toll has risen by 621 to 28,131 as of May 1, just short of Italy.
Considering China's actions regarding the novel coronavirus crisis is something that the United Kingdom will look at later but the focus right now is dealing with the immediate impact of the outbreak, a British minister said on Saturday.
The Netherlands
The number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the Netherlands has increased by 445 to 40,236, Dutch health authorities said on Saturday.
The National Institute for Public Health reported 94 new deaths, taking total COVID-19 fatalities to 4987.
Germany
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany rose by 945 to 161,703, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Saturday.
The death toll rose by 94 to 6575.
A cruise ship with nearly 3000 crew on board is in quarantine in the German harbour of Cuxhaven after one crew member tested positive for COVID-19, TUI Cruises and district authorities said on Friday.
Tests were carried out after 15 crew members on the Mein Schiff 3 started showing mild flu-like symptoms, TUI Cruises said. Further tests were being carried out and the 15 crew members were isolated in their cabins. Staff who had left the ship since April 28 have been informed and told to self-quarantine at home.
All 2899 crew members are to remain on board and in quarantine until further notice.
Austria
Austrians flocked to newly reopened hairdressers, beauticians and electronics shops on Saturday, as they relished the loosening of a seven-week-old coronavirus lockdown, although the move could yet cause a rebound in infections.
Austria has reported about 15,500 cases and 589 deaths so far.
Spain
Joggers, cyclists and surfers across Spain hurried out of their homes on Saturday, allowed to exercise outdoors for the first time in seven weeks as the government began easing tough coronavirus restrictions.
Spain has recorded a coronavirus death toll of 25,100, according to health ministry data on Saturday, and more than 216,582 cases.
Italy
Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy have jumped by 474, against 269 the day before. It was the largest daily toll of fatalities since April 21.
The steep increase in deaths followed a long, gradual declining trend and was due largely to Lombardy, the country's worst-affected region.
In Lombardy there were 329 deaths in the last 24 hours, compared with 88 the day before. The total death toll since the outbreak came to light on February 21 now stands at 28,710.
Turkey
The number of people who have died from COVID-19 in Turkey has risen by 78 in the last 24 hours to 3336, with 1983 new cases of the virus, Health Ministry data showed on Saturday.
The total number of cases rose to 124,375, the data showed, the highest total outside Western Europe or the United States, and slightly more than Russia.
Asia
Japan
Japan will fast-track a review of Gilead Sciences' antiviral drug Remdesivir so that it can hopefully be approved for domestic COVID-19 patients a week after the US firm's filing for such approval, the health minister said.
Health Minister Katsunobu Kato's comment comes after remdesivir was granted emergency use authorisation by the US Food and Drug Administration for COVID-19 on Friday.
"I've heard that Gilead Sciences will file for approval (in Japan) within days," Kato told reporters. "I issued an instruction so that we will be ready to approve it within a week or so."
Japan has confirmed nearly 15,000 cases and 517 deaths from COVID-19.
Indonesia
Indonesia recorded 292 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, taking the total number of infections to 10,843, said health ministry official, Achmad Yurianto.
Yurianto also reported 31 new deaths, taking the total number of fatalities to 831. The number of people who have recovered from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, rose by 74 to 1665, he said.
Malaysia
Malaysian authorities are rounding up undocumented migrants as part of efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus, officials said, after hundreds of migrants and refugees were detained in the capital Kuala Lumpur.
Authorities said 586 undocumented migrants were arrested during a Friday raid in a downtown area where many foreigners live, a move the United Nations said could push vulnerable groups into hiding and prevent them from seeking treatment.
Malaysia has reported a total of 6176 coronavirus cases and 103 deaths.
Singapore
Singapore will start easing some curbs put in place to contain the spread of the coronavirus over the next few weeks, authorities say, as the city-state takes the first tentative steps towards reopening its economy.
Selected activities such as home-based businesses, laundry services and barbers will be allowed to operate from May 12. Some students will be allowed to go back to schools in small groups from May 19.
Singapore is facing the deepest recession in its 55-year history, compounded by restrictions called 'circuit breakers' due to last until June 1, which include the closure of most workplaces and shops.
Singapore has among the highest number of infections in Asia, mainly due to outbreaks in cramped migrant-worker dormitories. It has managed to curb the spread of the disease among locals outside the dormitories.
On Saturday it confirmed 447 new coronavirus infections, the smallest daily rise in two weeks, taking the total to 17,548 with 16 virus-related deaths. Most of the new cases were among migrant workers, the health ministry said.
China
China has published a short animation titled "Once Upon a Virus" mocking the US response to the new coronavirus using Lego-like figures to represent the two countries.
In the animation posted online by China's official Xinhua news agency, red curtains open to reveal a stage featuring Lego-like figures in the form of a terracotta warrior wearing a face mask and the Statue of Liberty.
"We discovered a new virus," says the warrior.
"So what?" replies the Statue of Liberty. "It's only a flu."
As the warrior issues warnings about the virus and counts off the grim milestones in China's outbreak, the Statue of Liberty replies dismissively with echoes of Trump's press conferences in which he played down the severity of the illness.
"Are you listening to yourselves?" asks the warrior as the statue begins to turn red with fever and gets hooked up to an intravenous drip.
"We are always correct, even though we contradict ourselves," the statue replies.
"That's what I love about you Americans, your consistency," says the warrior.
Middle East and Africa
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia will take strict and painful measures to deal with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, finance minister Mohammed al-Jadaan said in an interview with Al Arabiya TV, adding that "all options for dealing with the crisis are open".
"We must reduce budget expenditures sharply", Jadaan said in comments published on Saturday ahead of the interview's broadcast. No details of possible measures were given.
The world's largest oil exporter is suffering from historically low oil prices, while measures to fight the new coronavirus are likely to curb the pace and scale of economic reforms launched by Crown Price Mohammed bin Salman.
Americas
United States
As of Saturday, the number of known infections US-wide had climbed to more than 1.1 million, including about 65,000 deaths.
Protesters in California gathered on Friday to protest against Governor Gavin Newsom's sweeping stay-at-home orders, which remain fully in place, and crack-down on beach goers who have defied restrictions.
Medical developments
Gilead Science's antiviral drug remdesivir was granted emergency use authorization by the US Food and Drug Administration for COVID-19 on Friday, clearing the way for broader use of the drug in more hospitals around the United States.
Data released this week from a trial by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States showed that Remdesivir reduced hospitalization stays by 31 percent compared to a placebo treatment, but did not significantly improve survival.
A top British hospital will use blood plasma treatment for COVID-19 patients as part of a trial that transfuses plasma from recovered people into sick people to give their immune systems a boost to fight the virus.
