Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: A mission of international experts to Wuhan concludes it is very likely that Covid-19 first passed to humans from a bat through an intermediary animal, and all but rules out a laboratory leak. England begins easing its lockdown easing on what newspapers dub "Happy Monday" with stay-at-home orders relaxed to allow outdoor gatherings of up to six people and the resumption of amateur sports. More than two million people in Brisbane enter a three-day lockdown after a cluster of cases is detected in Australia's third biggest city. More than 24 million people in Manila and four neighbouring provinces enter a lockdown as officials warn the week-long restrictions could be extended if infections do not fall. Indian authorities clamp down on Holi, one of the country's biggest Hindu festivals, banning it in some states and territories including Delhi, as the country passed 12 million cases and Mumbai records its highest-ever rise in daily infections. Chancellor Angela Merkel pleads with Germany's 16 federal states to stop straying from agreed pandemic measures, with her Christian Democratic Union party's ratings plummeting as the country stumbles in its virus response. The World Health Organization warns against a widening gap between numbers of vaccines in wealthy countries and those distributed to poorer nations through the global Covax initiative. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro offers "oil for vaccines" as his country, which is under economic sanctions that particularly affect the oil sector, faces a second wave of infections. Russia has agreed a deal for more than 60 million doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to be produced in China from May. Due to a surge in infections, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera floats delaying April elections to May that will choose a commission to rewrite the country's dictatorship-era constitution. A recent plateau in new infections in the US was likely linked to the "premature" easing of anti-virus efforts, top pandemic adviser Anthony Fauci says. At least 2,784,276 people have died of Covid-19 around the world since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to an AFP tally from official sources. The US is the worst-affected country with 549,335 deaths followed by Brazil with 312,206 fatalities, Mexico with 201,623, India with 161,843 and Britain with 126,592 deaths. burs-eab/fg/txw