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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The number of deaths in the Netherlands resulting from the coronavirus epidemic has risen by 175 to 1,039, health authorities said on Tuesday. The number of confirmed … Read More

By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe began a 21-day nationwide lockdown on Monday, following South Africa in implementing tough anti-coronavirus measures that are likely to hurt an economy already … Read More

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden will launch a national testing regime to help fight the spread of the coronavirus with the focus initially on health workers and others in key jobs, … Read More

By Daren Butler and Ali Kucukgocmen ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan is under growing pressure from unions and the opposition for a lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus, … Read More

By Maikel Jefriando JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo declared a public health emergency over the coronavirus epidemic on Tuesday and said an additional $24.9 billion would be spent … Read More

By Lisandra Paraguassu, Ricardo Brito and Pedro Fonseca BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday that there can be no more quarantine measures imposed on … Read More

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – China will start releasing information from Wednesday on coronavirus patients who show no disease symptoms, ordering them into quarantine for 14 days, a health official said, after … Read More

By Sarah Marsh HAVANA (Reuters) – The family of Emilia Montoya, 79, sacrificed four white doves and two roosters, chanted in the African language Yoruba and pounded a wooden staff … Read More

HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam will begin 15 days of social distancing from Wednesday to curb community transmission of the coronavirus, the Southeast Asian country’s prime minister said on Tuesday. “From … Read More

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany needs a law in future to ensure the supply of medicines in the country, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer told Bild newspaper on Tuesday as the world … Read More