EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you all the news you need to know as you start the day.

1. #RENTING: Five more areas of the country have now met the criteria to become Rent Pressure Zones. 

2. #CORONAVIRUS: A further 44 reported deaths of patients diagnosed with Covid-19 and 388 new cases of the disease in Ireland were confirmed by health officials last night. 

3. #BELFAST: Police in Northern Ireland are investigating the death of a 39-year-old woman whose body was found at a flat in south Belfast this morning. 

4. #LEAVING CERT: Minister for Education Joe McHugh has said that 29 July was the most likely date by which the Leaving Cert examinations would take place.

 5. #IMMIGRATION: US President Donald Trump has announced he will be placing a 60-day pause on the issuing of certain immigration green cards in an effort to limit competition for jobs in a US economy wrecked by the coronavirus.

6. #FAMINE: The Covid-19 pandemic could nearly double the number of people around the world facing acute hunger and lead to multiple families of “biblical proportions”, the United Nations’ World Food Programme has warned.

7. #MISSOURI: The US state of Missouri has sued China’s leadership over the Covid-19 pandemic, seeking damages over what it described as deliberate deception and insufficient action to stop the pandemic.

8. #PRIME TIME: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that tighter monitoring of anyone entering Ireland from another country is needed. 

9. #STARDUST: The six-part podcast made by TheJournal.ie about the 1981 Stardust disaster in Dublin has won a gold medal at the prestigious New York Festivals Radio Awards.