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Iran's health ministry has divided the country into white, yellow and red areas based on the number of infections and deaths.

Bolsonaro's off-the-cuff comment has been sparking anger, with governors and healthcare professionals all weighing in to express their outrage at his lack of empathy.

The latest weekly update of aggregated travel patterns Google collected from its users' phones pointed to increased disobedience with lockdown orders in place since March.

Officials confirmed that through Wednesday 46 residents who tested positive for COVID-19 had died as well as an additional 52 people 'suspected' to have the virus.

Gilead Sciences has already said it will donate the first 1.5 million doses of remdesivir.

The Spanish Flu was caused by an unusually deadly HINI Influenza virus and infected about 500 million - one-third of the world's population at the time, wiping out close to 50 million people.

The 55-year-old prime minister spent three nights in intensive care, then convalesced for two weeks at his country residence and returned to work on Monday.

Johnson promised to set out next week a "menu of options" on how the lockdown could be relaxed, but said the exact dates of any change would be driven by scientific advice and data.

China's Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co Ltd shipped 1,500 cameras to Amazon this month in a deal valued close to $10 million.

Scientists have developed a low-cost swab test that can diagnose COVID-19 infection in about 45 minutes, an advance that may help public health officials scrambling to cope with testing backlogs as the number of cases continues to climb.

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was part of a $2.2 trillion stimulus package passed by Congress late in March to blunt the pandemic's impact on the economy, and is supposed to lend money to businesses with fewer than 500 employees.

Conspiracy theorists have claimed SARS-CoV-2, now responsible for more than 200,000 deaths worldwide, was synthesised by the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

The ONS said 21,284 deaths in England alone up until April 17 were due to coronavirus, compared with the official announcement on that day from National Health Service England of 13,917.

Prime Minister Imran Khan said the coronavirus intensity in Pakistan is not as severe as it is in other parts of the world.

Japan does not have a mandatory lockdown, but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared a state of emergency for seven prefectures including Tokyo on April 7, urging people to cut person-to-person contacts by 70% to 80%.

If New York City is not whole, it will drag down the entire region, and it will hold up the entire national economic restart, he said.