“Given the increasing pressure on hospitals at the moment, it is unlikely he will have been admitted unless doctors have real concerns. Minor tests could be carried out in Downing Street,” she writes.

Here is my colleague Sarah Bosely with a bit more on what that might mean for the PM’s health.

Here is everything we know so far about UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s admission to hospital:

However, Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary and first secretary of state, is expected to stand in for the prime minister while he is in hospital and will chair the government’s coronavirus meeting this morning. Our health editor writes that the hospitalisation suggests the PM’s case may have progressed to the risky second stage where the immune system overreacts to the virus and ends up attacking the body’s own organs.

But No 10 said on Sunday night that Johnson had been taken to an NHS hospital in London after days of persistent symptoms , including a fever. Stressing that he was undergoing tests as a “precautionary” measure, No 10 said he would remain in charge of the government.

Boris Johnson has been admitted to hospital and will stay for treatment “as long as needed” after failing to shake off the coronavirus. The prime minister was diagnosed with the disease 10 days ago and had been continuing to coordinate the government’s response to the crisis while self-isolating in Downing Street.

St Thomas’ Hospital in Central London after Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital for tests as his coronavirus symptoms persist.

Audi and Volkswagen cars destined for export stand next to the ship onto which they will be loaded in Emden port on 13 June, 2012 in Emden, Germany.

Export expectations in Germany’s car sector have fallen to their lowest level since March 2009, when Europe’s largest economy was in the throes of the global financial crisis, Germany’s Ifo institute said on Monday. “The prospects for the German car sector have significantly worsened due to the coronavirus crisis,” Ifo said. It said business expectations in the sector for the coming months had dropped to -33.7 from -19.7 in February.

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But with 12 million Muscovites confined to their apartments and a global pandemic ushering in a period of self-isolation, preparations for the parade have raised concerns in Russia.

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin , is supposed to host France’s Emmanuel Macron and other world leaders at a military parade to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the second world war. The event is a significant historical landmark for Russia and a coveted photo opportunity to claim Putin’s re-emergence from political isolation in the west.

Russia is holding rehearsals for its Victory Day parade, scheduled for 9 May despite the coronavirus crisis, as the Kremlin resists cancelling a patriotic holiday with major political significance.

Police walk in an almost empty Volkspark Friedrichshain park during the coronavirus crisis on 5 April, 2020.

Germany’s confirmed coronavirus infections rose by 3,677 in the past 24 hours to 95,391 on Monday, the fourth straight drop in the daily rate of new cases, according to data from the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases. The number of new cases was lower than the 5,936 new infections reported on Sunday. The reported death toll rose by 92 to 1,434.

Thirteen of the new cases were medical personnel who attended to infected patients or had activities with them, said the spokesman, Taweesin Wisanuyothin. More than half of the new cases were in Bangkok, he said. Thailand has confirmed 2,220 cases and 26 fatalities since the outbreak emerged in the country in January.

That’s half as many cases as were reported the day before: on Sunday Thailand reported 102 new coronavirus cases.

Thailand reported 51 new coronavirus cases and three more deaths on Monday, according to a spokesman for the government’s Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration.

Calls to seal off ultra-Orthodox areas add to Israel’s virus tensions

Oliver Holmes and Quique Kierszenbaum report for the Guardian from Bethlehem.

It wasn’t a typical police operation. Two Israeli officers were to go undercover, although not posing as drug dealers or arms traffickers. For this particular assignment, they were to disguise themselves as ultra-Orthodox Jews.

Their mission on Friday was to bust an illegal gathering in a synagogue. People were praying together, a practice that is now against the law in the era of the coronavirus. Once the officers got inside to confirm the crowd, more units barged in and dispersed people.

Forces left the area, according to police, but: “An hour later, it was reported that people had returned again.” At that point, officers handed out fines amounting to nearly £4,000 (US$4,900).

The operation in the county’s north was one small part of a sometimes fruitless nationwide effort to impose Covid-19 restrictions on a deeply religious and often cut-off community that has been slow, or even opposed, to change their way of life.

Officials fear the result has been an explosion of cases in neighbourhoods populated with the minority, which makes up more than 12% of Israel’s nine million citizens.

Updated at 12.51 EDT