Coronavirus live news: Ireland to start easing lockdown next month; Turkey reports record daily Covid cases

Irish restrictions to ease on 12 April; Turkey has recorded 37,303 new coronavirus cases in the space of 24 hours

• Parts of Germany pause shots over blood clot reports
• Canada cites blood clot concerns in suspension
• WHO criticises China's data-sharing as it releases Covid origin report
• Canada suspends use of AstraZeneca Covid vaccine for those under 55
• Heart of darkness': neighbours shun Brazil over Covid response
• Tourists in Greece and Spain but most of continent to stay at home at Easter

12.23am BST

The leader of a World Health Organization mission to China to find the origins of the coronavirus has said the team felt political pressure, including from outside China, and difficulties in accessing raw data.

We got access to quite a lot of data, in many different areas, but of course, there are areas where we had difficulties getting down to the raw data. And there are many good reasons for that,' said Peter Ben Embarek, the WHO official who led the four-week mission of international experts to China in January and February.

12.08am BST

A phenomenal" summer of culture in the UK without crowds, queues or inbound tourists beckons, tourism chiefs have promised, as new figures were published laying bare just how bad 2020 was.

Bernard Donoghue, the director of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA), said there would probably not be another chance for people to experience the nation's museums, galleries, zoos, castles, country houses and theme parks as they will be able to this year.

Related: 'Culture without crowds': UK tourism chiefs tout virtues of fall in foreign visitors