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WASHINGTON (AP) — After two months of frantic response to the coronavirus, the White House is planning to shift President Donald Trump’s public focus to the burgeoning efforts aimed at easing the...
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Poll shows fall in support for confinement as country prepares to slowly lift some measures
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The country with Europe's highest fatality rate from COVID-19 has seen the lowest daily death toll since March 14. Along with Spain, Italy is seeing a decline in new infections. Follow DW for the latest.
The Malaysian government has turned away Rohingya refugees, over fears about coronavirus.
On the Queensland–Northern Territory border, the Urandangi pub is one of the very few in the country that is a hive of activity during coronavirus shutdowns.
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Nations battle to contain spread after World Health Organization warns of 10 million cases within six months
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An additional 22 million workers will lose their jobs in 2020 as the unemployment rate hits 10%, an EIU report reveals
Wall Street has already given the economy credit for recovering from an ordeal whose pain and duration are not yet known.
In the race to develop a vaccine to end the COVID-19 pandemic, governments, charities and Big Pharma firms are sinking billions of dollars into bets with extraordinarily low odds of success.
The sombre milestone is reached with 2.8 million infections, Johns Hopkins University figures say.
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MADRID (REUTERS) - Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced an easing of lockdown restrictions on Saturday (April 25), as children prepared to go outside for the first time in six weeks and figures confirmed a daily coronavirus death toll running well below the peak seen early this month.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The novel coronavirus has infected more than 2.8 million people globally and killed at least 201,502 as of Saturday.
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The World Health Organization warned against "immunity passports," which allow travel only to recovered patients, saying studies must first confirm whether people are indeed safe from reinfection.
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Europe News -"There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from Covid-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection," it said.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
No evidence people who develop antibodies after recovering are protected against a second infection.
When the first cases of the new coronavirus surfaced in Ohio’s prisons, the director in charge felt like she was fighting a ghost.
Under the rule, immigrants likely to need non-cash benefits for more than a year, such as Medicaid, can be denied residency or green cards.
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Although the coronavirus shutdown’s stranglehold on automakers has only been going on for a few weeks, a massive slump in earnings is already ravaging the industry. Will the slow firing up of factories rescue firms?
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Britain's Office for Budget Responsibility fiscal watchdog said the coronavirus could shrink the economy by 13% in 2020
Rubel, a 28-year-old migrant worker in Singapore, is afraid. The dormitory he and other foreign workers live in has been locked down, and nobody is allowed in or out as government officials scramble to contain the country's novel coronavirus outbreak.
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Researchers find that hundreds of "reopen" domain names are being registered at the same time. Many are part of schemes to collect data.
Schools will be allowed to reopen from 11 May, but with no more than 10 pupils per class
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Singapore News -Singaporeans and PRs make up seven of the new cases, with migrant workers living in dormitories still forming the majority as in recent weeks.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Asia Times
The economic disruption brought about by the Covid-19 lockdown has been roiling the Indian stock market since March, but now the contagion seems to have spread to mutual funds – a favorite of risk-…
The U.S. Congressional Budget Office said Friday that the economic hardship caused by the coronavirus in the United States would last through next year, as the pandemic wreaks havoc on the financial health of countries around the world. The nonpartisan agency said the U.S. budget deficit would grow from $1 trillion to $3.7 trillion this year and said the unemployment rate would rise from 3.5% in February to 16% in September. It predicted that unemployment would fall after that time but would remain in double digits through 2021. The report put pressure on the U.S.
