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FILE PHOTO: Brazil’s Minister of Health Luiz Henrique Mandetta gestures during a news conference, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Brasilia, Brazil April 8, 2020. REUTERS/Adriano Machado SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s health minister urged the government to speak with a unified voice in its fight against the new coronavirus, calling out President Jair

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Sabir Durrani says he offers prayers almost every day at a mosque in the central Pakistani city of Multan. He says that often a dozen or more men are in attendance – none of them wearing protective face masks. FILE PHOTO: A police officer uses a megaphone, requesting people to go and

Police officers patrol the deserted Promenade des Anglais in Nice, as a lockdown is imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread in France, April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard PARIS (Reuters) – The death toll in France from the coronavirus outbreak rose at a slightly slower pace on Sunday than a day

DHAKA/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Bangladesh on Sunday announced a relief package worth about $1.7 billion to help farmers struggling because of restrictions imposed to stem the spread of the coronavirus, with neighbouring India expected to further extend its nationwide lockdown. A doctor scans residents from Dharavi, one of Asia’s largest slums, with an infrared thermometer

GENEVA/ZURICH (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) warned countries on Friday to be cautious about lifting restrictions introduced to curb the spread of the new coronavirus and voiced alarm it was taking hold in Africa. The United Nations agency would like to see an easing, but at the same time “lifting restrictions could lead

TOKYO (Reuters) – Metropolitan Tokyo asked some businesses to close and the ancient capital of Kyoto warned tourists to stay away as Japan battles a fast-spreading outbreak of the new coronavirus, amid fears the government’s measures are too little and too late. Less than usual passersby cross a street after the government announced the state

FILE PHOTO: A worker wearing protective gear disinfects a public bus during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Gdynia, Poland, April 5, 2020. REUTERS/Matej Leskovsek WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s government may decide on Thursday to extend restrictions to fight the spread of the coronavirus, but no drastic new moves to combat the pandemic

FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government, Sir Patrick Vallance, arrive for a news conference on the novel coronavirus, in London, Britain March 3, 2020. Frank Augstein/Pool via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spent a second night

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s daily toll of coronavirus deaths rose on Tuesday for the first time in five days, with 743 people succumbing overnight compared with 637 in the previous 24 hours, but there was still hope the national lockdown might be eased soon. A medical worker pushes a stretcher with a patient next to

FILE PHOTO: A Red Cross personnel wearing a protective suit sprays disinfectant along a corridor in a densely populated neighbourhood area, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 4, 2020. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s health ministry has approved a request by the government of Jakarta to impose large-scale

FILE PHOTO: A pedestrian wearing a protective mask struggles to get a ride after hundreds of cabs were flagged down by authorities as the government suspends mass transportation to implement an “enhanced community quarantine” in the country’s main island Luzon to contain the coronavirus, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Sunday will outline measure to alleviate the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak with a focus on shielding the poor, but is likely to resist calls to borrow heavily for a giant stimulus package. FILE PHOTO: Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador talks to

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece has quarantined a second migrant facility on its mainland after a 53-year-old man tested positive for the new coronavirus, the migration ministry said on Sunday. FILE PHOTO: A migrant wears a protective face mask at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants next to the Moria camp, during a nationwide lockdown

MILAN (Reuters) – Italy reported its lowest daily rise in COVID-19 deaths for nearly two weeks on Saturday and said the number of patients in intensive care had fallen for the first time. Municipal workers distribute masks and gloves at the Rialto market, as new restrictions for open-air markets were implemented by the Veneto region

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia reported a sustained fall in new coronavirus infections and conducted the biggest peacetime maritime operation on Sydney Harbour on Saturday, refuelling foreign cruise ships before expelling them from local waters. FILE PHOTO: A man walks in a corridor near a sign with instructions about the coronavirus and social distancing following the

SATARA, India, SINGAPORE, LONDON (Reuters) – In the fertile Satara district in western India, farmers are putting their cattle on an unorthodox diet: Some feed iceberg lettuce to buffalo. Others feed strawberries to cows. An agricultural worker cleans carrot crops of weeds amid an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a farm near Arvin,