Category: World News

WUHAN, China (Reuters) – Tentative signs of normal life are returning to Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus epidemic was first documented, after a 76-day lockdown that turned it … Read More

(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday reported 427,460 cases of coronavirus, an increase of 32,449 cases from its previous count, and said the … Read More

By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) – The French government on Thursday more than doubled the expected cost of its coronavirus crisis measures to cope with the worst recession since at … Read More

By Nathan Layne and Stephanie Kelly (Reuters) – New York state saw a sharp drop in the number of people newly admitted to a hospital in the past 24 hours … Read More

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Determined chocolatiers and chefs in Belgium have kept producing their Easter delicacies despite the coronavirus lockdown, with specialist chocolate shops remaining open and also doing deliveries. Belgian-based … Read More

By Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian doctor Elisabeth Lenoir is always careful to respect social distancing rules when she goes jogging after work in the village where she lives. … Read More

(Reuters) – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) said on Thursday it was testing anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID-19, days after several U.S. doctors said they were using the … Read More

BANGKOK (Reuters) – People queued to buy wine, beer and spirits in Bangkok on Thursday after the Thai capital announced a 10-day ban on alcohol sales to try to limit … Read More

By Jörn Poltz and Paul Carrel MUNICH (Reuters) – One January lunchtime in a car parts company, a worker turned to a colleague and asked to borrow the salt. As … Read More

By Giulio Piovaccari and Joseph White MILAN/DETROIT (Reuters) – Global automakers reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic are accelerating efforts to restart factories from Wuhan to Maranello to Michigan, using safety … Read More