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By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland plans to expand its coronavirus testing capacity to 100,000 tests per week over the next 10 days as it considers easing stay-at-home restrictions … Read More

DUBAI (Reuters) – Dubai, the United Arab Emirates business hub, has extended by one week a 24-hour-a-day curfew imposed as part of a sterilisation drive to control the spread of … Read More

LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal is preparing to gradually lift some lockdown measures next month as the coronavirus outbreak slows, with small neighborhood shops, hairdressers and childcare centers likely to be … Read More

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s president on Friday urged medical workers aged 60 to 65 to return to their jobs and treat non-coronavirus patients, in a bid to help the … Read More

By Joe Bavier JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The COVID-19 pandemic will likely kill at least 300,000 Africans and risks pushing 29 million into extreme poverty, the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa … Read More

(This April 16 story corrects amount of aid in paragraph 2 to $3.2 billion, not $4 billion) By Tracy Rucinski (Reuters) – Southwest Airlines Co <LUV.N> has approached unions representing … Read More

GENEVA (Reuters) – Africa can still contain the outbreak of the COVID-19 respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus, a senior World Health Organization official said on Friday. “I believe … Read More

By Elizabeth Dilts Marshall, Imani Moise and Matt Scuffham NEW YORK (Reuters) – During recessions, big U.S. banks usually turn to cost-cuts to boost results. But during the coronavirus pandemic, … Read More

By Gavin Jones and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy rose by 575 on Friday, up from 525 the day before, while the number … Read More

By Guy Faulconbridge, Elizabeth Piper and Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – The British government was too slow to react on several fronts to the novel coronavirus outbreak that could cause … Read More