Boris Johnson addressing the media on Thursday evening. ‘The prime minister wants no narrative to take hold that could trigger a backlash on the home front that his administration cannot contain.’ Photograph: Andrew Parsons/10 Downing Street/Crown Copyright/PA

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: The Guardian view on Johnson’s Covid-19 plan: doubt, deny and dismiss

About Artists: CHLOE DEWE MATHEWS

About Artists: CHLOE DEWE MATHEWS

Clasics in Ñspel: Or I shall live your epitaph to make – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 81

Clasics in Ñspel: Or I shall live your epitaph to make – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 81

The funeral of Elizabeth Baez, an 82-year-old woman who died after contracting Covid-19, takes place in Rio de Janeiro in the presence of her only son, Henrique. All photographs by Nicoló Lanfranchi

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: ‘This moment is leaving a mark on me’: framing Rio under Covid-19’s shadow

A game of two lips: the Mystik Van Eijk tulip.

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Home, not away: the Tulip Project – in pictures

Clasics in Ñspel: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 43

Clasics in Ñspel: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 43

About Poets: EAVAN BOLAND

About Poets: EAVAN BOLAND

Clasics in Ñspel: QUARANTINE, by Eavan Boland (RIP)

Clasics in Ñspel: QUARANTINE, by Eavan Boland (RIP)

Jair Bolsonaro at a news conference in Brasilia on Friday. His dismissive reaction to the coronavirus crisis has sparked outrage across the political spectrum. Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Bolsonaro in fresh crisis over son’s alleged links to fake news racket

Female leaders around the globe, from left: Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen; New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern; the German chancellor, Angela Merkel; Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen; and Sanna Marin, the Finnish prime minister . Composite: Reuters/Getty/Rex/Shutterstock

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Are female leaders more successful at managing the coronavirus crisis?

Donald Trump listens to a speaker during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus ‘cure’ wrote to Trump this week

Clasics in Ñspel: NO MORE BOOMERANG, by Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker)

Clasics in Ñspel: NO MORE BOOMERANG, by Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker)

Clasics in Ñspel: I AM! by John Clare

Clasics in Ñspel: I AM! by John Clare

Clasics in Ñspel: Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 40

Clasics in Ñspel: Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 40

Jonny Weeks

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Our hospital, our NHS: what it was like to photograph an ICU in the Covid-19 crisis

Edward Thomas

Clasics in Ñspel: ROADS, by Edward Thomas

Philip Pullman: ministers should face charges if Brexit politics slowed PPE

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Philip Pullman: ministers should face charges if Brexit politics slowed PPE

Polly Toynbee

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Boris Johnson is the wrong man in the wrong job at the wrong time

Clasics in Ñspel: THE ROAD NOT TAKEN, by Robert Frost

Clasics in Ñspel: THE ROAD NOT TAKEN, by Robert Frost

Britain’s health secretary, Matt Hancock, speaks via video link during the official opening of the NHS Nightingale hospital in Birmingham. Photograph: Jacob King/AFP via Getty Images

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: How did Britain get its coronavirus response so wrong?

Clasics in Ñspel: O! how thy worth with manners may I sing – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 39

Clasics in Ñspel: O! how thy worth with manners may I sing – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 39

Emma Brockes

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Trump’s performances are terrifying – but I can’t stop myself watching them

‘The life of a single party – its ideological trajectory, factional struggles and leadership contests – becomes almost the whole of politics.’ Photograph: Reuters

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Are the Tories set to make Britain a one-party state?

Clasics in Ñspel: EYES IN THE NIGHT, by Laurie van der Hart

Clasics in Ñspel: EYES IN THE NIGHT, by Laurie van der Hart

Gravediggers wearing protective suits carry the coffin of 68-year-old Natalina Cardoso Bandeira, who died after contracting coronavirus. Photograph: Bruno Kelly/Reuters

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Lula: Bolsonaro leading Brazil ‘to slaughterhouse’ over Covid-19

Clasics in Ñspel: BACK TO FACE MY MONSTERS, by Laurie van der Hart

Clasics in Ñspel: BACK TO FACE MY MONSTERS, by Laurie van der Hart

Banksy posted a set of five images on Wednesday night Photograph: Banksy/PA

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Banksy reveals pest problem in new lockdown artwork

‘On 12 March, the government alarmed public health experts by abandoning containment, community case-finding and contact-tracing would stop.’ Boris Johnson arrives at a news conference on 12 March. Photograph: Simon Dawson/PA

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: We scientists said lock down. But UK politicians refused to listen

Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residency, Florida. Photograph: Alan Santos Presidencia Da Re/Reuters

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: In this moment of crisis, macho leaders are a weakness, not a strength

Clasics in Ñspel: As a decrepit father takes delight – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 37

Clasics in Ñspel: As a decrepit father takes delight – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 37

About Artists: NAHEM SHOA

About Artists: NAHEM SHOA

Donald Trump watches a multimedia presentation created by the White House to defend the president’s response to the coronavirus outbreak. Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Wounded by media scrutiny, Trump turned a briefing into a presidential tantrum

Donald Trump: a ‘Niagara of misinformation … spews daily from his mouth’. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: I warned of Trump’s attack on science. But I never predicted the horror that lay ahead

Donald Trump answers a question about hospitals and frontline healthcare workers reporting shortages of masks and coronavirus tests. Photograph: Yuri Gripas/Reuters

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: US’s global reputation hits rock-bottom over Trump’s coronavirus response

Fintan O'Toole

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Coronavirus has exposed the myth of British exceptionalism

Marina Hyde

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: With 1,000 deaths a day, our leaders should be facing far tougher questions

How coronavirus triggered global war of competing narratives. Illustration: Guardian Design

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Coronavirus: who will be winners and losers in new world order?

Clasics in Ñspel: Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 90

Clasics in Ñspel: Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 90

John Crace

In Ñspel: A woman’s place appears to be anywhere but the Downing Street press briefing

Clasics in Ñspel: AFRICAN TRAIN TRIP, by Laurie van der Hart

Clasics in Ñspel: AFRICAN TRAIN TRIP, by Laurie van der Hart

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Be it Hopper pastiche or Hockney original, art offers vital comfort in times of crisis

‘Sex differences in our vulnerability to coronavirus and other life-threatening diseases are shaped by social norms and practices.’ Photograph: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Coronavirus hits men harder. Here’s what scientists know about it

John Crace

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Leadership, Jim, but not as we know it with Captain Raab on bridge

Clasics in Ñspel: When thou shalt be disposed to set me light – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 88

Clasics in Ñspel: When thou shalt be disposed to set me light – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 88

John Crace

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Ruffled Raab gives little clue of true state of prime minister’s health

Stelios Kerasidis during a lesson in Athens in July last year. Photograph: Costas Baltas/Reuters

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Seven-year-old Greek piano prodigy pens an ‘isolation waltz’

Clasics in Ñspel: Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 87

Clasics in Ñspel: Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 87

John Crace

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Queen praises the people, if not the government, and pulls off a tough gig

Main image: Donald Trump leaves a coronavirus taskforce briefing at the White House in Washington DC on 2 April. Photograph: Kevin Dietsch/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: How science finally caught up with Trump’s playbook – with millions of lives at stake

About Poets: RAYMOND ANTROBUS

About Poets: RAYMOND ANTROBUS

‘An utter failure of leadership – the lack of will, intelligence, basic competence or even consistency on the part of the Trump administration – has turbocharged the problem.’ Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: The Guardian view on Trump and coronavirus: endangering American lives

Fumigation in Sana’a, Yemen. Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: UN secretary general: recovery from the coronavirus crisis must lead to a better world