Hello, this is Daniel Iovanescu with the BBC News. India has recorded its biggest daily jump in the number of coronavirus cases and fatalities. Health officials said there were nearly 4000 new cases of the virus and about 200 deaths in the past 24 hours. Here's our south Asia editor Jill McGivering. Officials are trying to stop people from being alarmed by this. They are suggesting it could be, as it were, an artificial increase because they're trying to increase testing. They're pleased with themselves, cause they move very quickly to try and get this nationwide severe lockdown in place. And they are arguing it's right that they started to come out of that now. The other way of looking at it, of course, this is a genuine surge in new cases which would suggest the virus hasn't yet peaked. And if that were the case, then the fact that they're starting to end the lockdown and people are starting to travel again, for example, have more contact together might cause concern about future spread.
Britain is today trying out a contact tracing app to detect and limit the spread of the coronavirus. The app records phone users who have spent 15 minutes within 2 meters of each other. If one later tests positive for the virus, others are alerted. Concerns have been raised about privacy.
The United States and Britain are beginning discussions on a post-Brexit trade agreement. The UK's International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said striking a good deal would help both countries economies to bounce back after the virus outbreak. Dharshini David reports. Like many, the trade secretary Liz Truss and the US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer are having to resort to meeting via video link, but that hasn't dampened hopes of a deal that would boost output and jobs by cutting charges and restrictions on trade. An agreement that suits both sides won't be easy. For example, the US wants more access to British markets for its farmers, meaning a relaxing regulations such as those around in chlorinated chickens. But the UK has pledged to protect consumer standards. World news from the BBC.