the french prime minister edward philippe says his country is on schedule with hundreds of thousandsf businesses allowed to reopen on monday. paris are going to be, quote, extra regulations. and australia's prime menster says 10 people could attend weddings and 30 people could go to funerals. by step 3 100 people could gather. >>> the number of cases in russia surged on thursday to a new daily total. more than 11,000 cases were reported in 24 hours. the country has the fifth highest number in the world. let's get the latest from matthew chance. moscow. what do you make of the new numbers coming out of pretty gr. this explosion of coronavirus infections is still taking place and russia is being particularly badly affected. which is a bit of a turn around from earlier on when russia was saying it had the whole situation under control. that doesn't seem further from the truth. 10.5 thousand new cases confirmed in the past couple of hours as a new sort of daily total of cases that have come to life. even officials are saying the official statistics of people affected in russia are way, w