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LONDON (Reuters) – Countries can’t simply lock down their societies to defeat coronavirus, the World Health Organization’s top emergency expert said on Sunday, adding that public health measures are needed … Read More

By Nathan Layne and David Morgan NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly 1 in 4 Americans were under orders to close up shop and stay at home on Saturday, as lawmakers … Read More

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first rapid coronavirus diagnostic test, with a detection time of about 45 minutes, as the United … Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The coronavirus economic relief bill being finalized by the U.S. Congress will include a one-time $3,000 payment for families and allow the Federal Reserve to leverage up … Read More

By Giselda Vagnoni ROME (Reuters) – Italy recorded a jump in deaths from coronavirus of almost 800 on Saturday, taking the toll in the world’s hardest-hit country to almost 5,000. … Read More

By Belén Carreño and Nathan Allen MADRID (Reuters) – Death arrived slowly at the nursing home where Chelo Megia works. Then it was everywhere. On March 11, a Wednesday, Megia … Read More

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the Netherlands rose by 573, or nearly 16%, to 4,204, Dutch health authorities said in a daily update on … Read More

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The lockdown of Belgium due to the coronavirus epidemic will continue for at least the next eight weeks, health minister Maggie De Block told the De Zondag … Read More

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore reported 23 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, mainly imported and taking the city state’s tally of the infection to 455, according to a health ministry … Read More

By Lidia Kelly and Jonathan Barrett MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia ordered pubs, cinemas, churches and casinos to close and two more states said on Sunday they would shut their borders, … Read More