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LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s government announced on Thursday a set new measures to help families and companies cope with the coronavirus outbreak, including a six-month suspension of the payment of … Read More

By Saurabh Sharma and Sumit Khanna LUCKNOW/AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) – After India imposed a 21-day nationwide lockdown on Tuesday to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the plywood factory near Uttar … Read More

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Stephen Farrell GAZA CITY (Reuters) – Scarcely two years ago Gaza’s border with Israel was a deadly front line, with black smoke swirling around thousands of … Read More

By Alistair Smout and Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) – A British company behind a 10-minute coronavirus antibody test, which will cost about a $1, has begun sending prototypes to laboratories … Read More

(Reuters) – Peter Tuchman, dubbed the “most photographed trader on Wall Street”, took to Instagram on Thursday to tell his 10,000-odd followers that he had tested positive for coronavirus. The … Read More

By Emilio Parodi and Silvia Aloisi MILAN (Reuters) – Italian researchers are looking at whether a higher than usual number of cases of severe pneumonia and flu in Lombardy in … Read More

By Marine Strauss and Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The peak of Belgium’s coronavirus infections still lies ahead, the health ministry said on Thursday, adding much will depend on how … Read More

DUBAI (Reuters) – G20 leaders said during on Thursday they were committed to presenting a united front against the coronavirus pandemic, calling it their “absolute priority” to tackle its health, … Read More

By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In order to put recession-fighting checks into the hands of millions of Americans, the U.S. government will rely on a tax agency that has … Read More

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told Americans on Thursday progress in controlling the spread of the coronavirus would determine when the economy reopens … Read More