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PM Jacinda Ardern said under normal circumstances, she would have sacked Clark -- but instead, she stripped him of the junior role of associated finance minister and demoted him in the cabinet rankings.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told the nation to be patient in the face of a pandemic that has now claimed 16,523 lives in the Mediterranean country and left millions unemployed.

Andrew Cuomo said the COVID-19 death rate in New York was "effectively flat" for the past two days but announced that schools and non-essential businesses must stay shut until April 29.

A 15-hour curfew in the city contributed to the shortage of basic raw materials for coffin makers like wood and metal.

While there is not yet any detailed data supporting Avigan’s effectiveness in treating Covid-19, there are some reasons for optimism.

The delay of the release of the third trance, amounting USD 450 million, will be likely due to the surfacing of new realities on the macroeconomic front following the coronavirus pandemic, The News International reported.

The New York Times said that at least 430,000 people have arrived in the United States on direct flights from China since the New Year and authorities had not taken strict measures to screen travellers from suspected illness.

Since COVID-19 emerged late last year in the Chinese city of Wuhan, around 1.1 million people have fallen ill across the globe. Almost 60,000 people have died worldwide.

So the two young American doctors, Kashif Chaudhry and Naila Shereen, whose whirlwind courtship spun them between New York City and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, cancelled their big plans.

Across Asia, countries and cities that seemed to have brought the coronavirus epidemic under control are suddenly tightening their borders and imposing stricter containment measures, fearful about a wave of new infections imported from elsewhere.

For people of many faiths, and even none at all, the coronavirus outbreak can feel lately like the end of the world is near.

Factors affecting women's abilities to make their own decision included their education levels, the age they married and the views of their husbands, said Emilie Filmer-Wilson, UNFPA human rights adviser.

In a video address, the prince said although he had recovered, he was still in a state of social distance and general isolation. His wife Camilla, 72, who had tested negative, is remaining in self-isolation. until the end of the week in case she develops...

Governor Ned Lamont tweeted on Wednesday that the newborn was brought unresponsive to a hospital late last week and could not be revived. Testing confirmed last night that the newborn was COVID-19 positive, Lamont said.

In a letter sent to sporting bodies across China, the bureau said mass participation events were not to proceed as the country aimed to avoid a second wave of infections being brought in from overseas.

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases around the world topped 750,000, with 413,000 of those in Europe, while most of the confirmed deaths are also from the continent, according to an AFP tally.