10 things you need to know this morning in Australia

Good morning and welcome to the week. 1. British PM Boris Johnson has been taken to hospital, just 10 days after testing positive for coronavirus. "This is a precautionary step, as the Prime Minister continues to have persistent symptoms of coronavirus," including a high fever, a spokesperson said. 2. COVID-19 has taken an enormous toll on Italy, Spain and France but its fatality rate appears to finally be coming off the boil , as daily deaths in each European nation declined over the weekend. Italy, which currently has the highest death toll in the world, recorded 525 more deaths on Sunday, its lowest in around two and a half weeks and the third consecutive day of decline. In a sign social distancing is here to stay, however, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said: "it is likely that we are not going to see an end to confinement that would happen in one move everywhere and for everyone."

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