Summary
- The One World: Together At Home show included more than 100 artists play live from their homes
- The eight-hour event was run by the Global Citizen movement and the WHO was live-streamed and broadcast on TV
- Lady Gaga, who helped organise the concert, also performed
- At his White House briefing on Saturday evening, President Donald Trump praised the production of hospital goods in the US: “V for victory, V for ventilator!”
- Councils in England are to get an extra £1.6bn in funding to help them deal with the pandemic
- Britain’s Queen Elizabeth has asked that there be no gun salutes to mark her birthday on Tuesday
- It is thought to be the first such request from the Palace in the British monarch’s 68-year reign.
- As world coronavirus deaths pass 150,000, more than 4.5 billion people are under containment to slow the pandemic.