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Daily UK deaths rise by 847; Matt Hancock unable to guarantee hospital gown supplies this weekend; Rishi Sunak extends furlough scheme
RNZ
GSK and Sanofi have put competition aside to team up to find a Covid-19 vaccine - and are pledging not to profit from anything they develop, at least in the short term.
Asia Times
JAKARTA – Domestic worker Narni Nikmaturromar is someone Indonesian President Joko Widodo and his government will appreciate: this year she won’t be taking her three young sons on the traditi…
Post Courier
Prime Minister James Marapes announces they include a 12-year-old boy, a 30-year-old man and a woman. He said the fourth test was conducted on a a 37-year-old man, who is a colleague of the female patient in Kokopo.
Paul Kelly said he had always been a believer in the Australian people making the right decision when quizzed if the app could be compulsory.
AP NEWS
BEIRUT (AP) — As some wealthier Western nations begin easing coronavirus restrictions, many developing countries, particularly in the Middle East and Africa, want to do it too, but they cannot...
A 99-year-old British World War II hero who set out to raise around $1,000 for health care workers battling COVID-19 has raised $16 million, and counting. Captain Tom Moore of Bedford, 75 kilometers north of London, hoped to raise money by walking 100 times around his garden before his 100th birthday. By the time he completed the challenge Thursday, he had raised about $16 million, as the donations continued to pour in from around the world.
US reports worst unemployment numbers while China says its economy contracted 6.8 percent and Wuhan revises death toll.
DW.COM
The German heathcare system has "at no time been overwhelmed," according to Health Minister Jens Spahn. Elsewhere, the Chinese city of Wuhan has upped its death toll by 50%. Follow DW for the latest.
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A summary of the biggest developments in the global coronavirus outbreak
The United Nations warned Thursday that the threat of the coronavirus in war-ravaged Yemen requires attention and resources, making a nationwide cease-fire even more urgent. "Yemen cannot face two fronts at the same time: a war and a pandemic," U.N. Yemen envoy Martin Griffiths told a virtual meeting of the Security Council on Thursday. "The new battle that Yemen faces in confronting the virus will be all-consuming.
Newsweek
Governor Andrew Cuomo wouldn't speculate as to what happens after May 15, but he said policies will be determined by data.
Asia Times
Trade of the day: # Stocks, futures make tentative gains on hopes economies are opening # Investors are underestimating the hit to corporate earnings: Natixis # Oil prices stabilise …
Salvation Army food trucks are parked in low-income neighborhoods in Chicago, Atlanta and Los Angeles not to sell food but to bring free meals to residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Most people we serve live in poverty or from paycheck to paycheck,” said Dale Bannon, the Salvation Army’s national community relations director.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been facing criticism for his response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Newsweek
Thousands of protesters gathered near the state capitol in Lansing, Michigan to voice their opposition to the stay-at-home order issued by Whitmer in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Byline Times
With the world's attention on the Coronavirus pandemic, India's Government is introducing more draconian measures to advance its nationalist aims.
Asia Times
According to a joint study by the universities of Sao Paulo and Brasilia, the actual number of Brazilians infected by the Sars-Cov-2 virus is 13 times higher than what’s officially recognized by th…
With more graves being dug and little testing, Brazil's coronavirus crisis may be worse than figures show.
Asia Times
It is a race like no other. Up to 70 “candidates” across the globe are working on a vaccine for the Covid-19 disease. At stake are millions of lives and the chance to stop the world from suff…
With coronavirus confirmed in 2,000 British care homes, advocates say frightened staff are reporting increasing cases of COVID-19 among residents, but they've been instructed not to take them to hospital.
Certain countries in Europe -- Germany, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Austria and Norway -- are beginning to ease their coronavirus restrictions. How have they got to this point and what lies ahead?
U.S. funding to the World Health Organization is being halted by President Donald Trump, who blames it for creating "a 20-fold increase" in COVID-19 cases worldwide. The U.N.
The first United Nations “Solidarity Flight” is scheduled to leave Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, today - from there, the aircraft will transport the vital medical cargo to all countries in Africa, where supplies are desperately needed to contain the spread of COVID-19.
