ALL AROUND THE NEWS: March 2020

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Reporters Without Borders: If the Chinese press were free, the coronavirus might not be a pandemic | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

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WHO accused of suppressing information about Taiwan's coronavirus prevention measures

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Taiwan to donate 10 million masks to virus-affected countries

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China Hints That Its Coronavirus Data Doesn’t Paint Full Picture.Maybe our numbers aren’t entirely giving the full picture of the coronavirus, China health officials said on Tuesday.

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2020 hurricane season predicted to be 'above-normal' with 3-4 major hurricanes | This follows one of the busiest hurricane seasons on record

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A Chinese Millionaire and Prominent Gadfly of the Communist Party Has Vanished After Staging an Art Performance Criticizing Xi Jinping

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The Trump administration is ramping up airstrikes in Somalia, where a human rights group says they are increasingly killing civilians

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A Wuhan doctor who was among the first to alert other medics to the spread of coronavirus has disappeared sparking concerns that she has been detained

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Canadian government commits $2 billion to Canadian made medical needs. So far more than 3,200 companies that would have closed have shifted to manufacturing medical equipment, PPE, sanitizers, masks, and more. Treat our patients, protect our workers, keep economy moving. Oh Canada 🇨🇦 ❤️

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$500 to $100,000 fines for ignoring social distancing in Brampton, Ontario, Canada

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Malaysia’s government has apologised after its advice for women to wear makeup and not nag their husbands during the coronavirus lockdown

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Coronavirus the worst global crisis since WW II, says UN chief

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Researchers in Germany are currently preparing a mass study into how many people are already immune to the Covid-19 virus, allowing authorities to eventually issue passes to exclude workers from restrictive measures currently in place.

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Report reveals ‘massive plastic pollution footprint’ of drinks firms: Plastic from Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé and Unilever products could cover 83 football pitches every day

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61 Italian Doctors Have Died During Coronavirus Crisis.

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Germany will test 200,000 people a day for coronavirus in bid to replicate South Korea's success in slowing the outbreak

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Coronavirus UK: Man Who Spat At Police While Claiming To Have Coronavirus Symptoms Jailed For 12 Months.

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The locusts are about to decimate food supplies in east africa

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Monday, March 30, 2020

Brazilian President Bolsonaro rejects calls for coronavirus lockdown, says "we're all going to die one day"

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Italy flattens curve as daily rise in coronavirus cases hits lowest rate

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Trump says US to send medical supplies to Italy, France, Spain: "We're going to be sending approximately $100 million worth of, of things, of surgical and medical and hospital things to Italy," he said

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Six months in jail, $11,000 fine for leaving home without a 'reasonable excuse’ in NSW, Australia

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New blood test can detect 50 types of cancer

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'Pandemic' scientist says his team has discovered potential cure for COVID-19

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Over 70% favor removing 'China' from Taiwan passport

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Workers go on strike at Amazon delivery site in Italy amid coronavirus

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Nurse who taught herself to sew when her team ran out of scrubs gathers thousands of volunteers to make uniforms for NHS workers from their homes amid coronavirus shortage

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'We will deliver right to the border': B.C. town vows to look after U.S. neighbours in pandemic - 'We are 1 community,' Stewart, B.C., mayor says of adjacent Hyder, Alaska

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Twitter removes videos of Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro for violating the platform's regulations against content defiant of public health information.

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UN warns that COVID-19 pandemic could trigger global food shortage

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Coronavirus: Trudeau says he’s ‘proud’ of Canada’s COVID-19 response as U.S. cases soar

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As #COVID19 rages, "aviation missionary organization" may try again to contact remote Amazon peoples in violation of Brazil's policy, so federal prosecutors are now investigating

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Doctors claim they have been gagged over protective equipment shortages

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Indonesia volcano erupts with a massive 16,000-foot plume of ash

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Hungary’s Government Seeking Unlimited Powers In New Coronavirus Bill

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Astronomers have discovered that a collision of neutron stars 100 million years ago seeded our solar system with precious metals

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Taiwan says WHO not sharing coronavirus information it provides, pressing complaints

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Wuhan COVID-19 Death Toll May Be in Tens of Thousands, Data on Cremations and Shipments of Urns Suggest

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Coronavirus cluster emerges at another South Korean church, as others press ahead with Sunday services

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Chinese media question official coronavirus death tally for Wuhan; Mortuaries in Wuhan prepare more urns than number of reported virus deaths

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Wuhan residents estimate region's coronavirus death toll much higher than reported - 42,000-47,000 deaths vs. 3,000 reported deaths

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WHO ignored Taiwan's warnings about coronavirus in December

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McDonald's chose not to tell all staff at Sydney store about employee's positive coronavirus test

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Sunday, March 29, 2020

Chinese markets are still selling bats

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Lockdown seems to have a very different meaning depending on where in the world you live - In France you can go out for wine and croissants while in America guns and marijuana are declared essential in some states.

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Chinese wet markets still operating despite COVID-19

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Mercedes F1 to make breathing aid that can help keep coronavirus patients out of intensive care. Forty units have been delivered, and if trials go well, up to 1,000 of the machines can be produced per day by Mercedes-AMG-HPP, beginning in a week's time.

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Medevac plane carrying coronavirus supplies crashes killing eight

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Australian Government Announces 6 Month ban on Evictions due to COVID-19

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21 Year Old Brags Online About Not Social Distancing, Gets Coronavirus

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City of Toronto acquires hotels, rental buildings for homeless in response to coronavirus

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New health regulation will require a front-of-pack warning of excessive calories, sugars, saturated fats, trans fats or sodium

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Coronavirus: Singapore PM calls for end to US-China blame game, wants to see leadership from Trump administration

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Amazon workers plan strike at Staten Island warehouse to demand coronavirus protections

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Coronavirus: Moscow imposes mandatory lockdown after Russian capital records more than 1,000 infections | With four hours warning, authorities introduce strict new regulations — with no indications about how long they will last

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Bolsonaro threatens to sack health minister over coronavirus criticism | World news

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A blunder that may have seen the UK miss out on an offer of 25,000 life-saving ventilators will be investigated, Michael Gove says. A Cheshire company says it also told the department of health it could secure 50 million coronavirus testing kits – but its email went unanswered for two weeks.

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‘Hero’ doctor becomes first working NHS surgeon to die from coronavirus in UK

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US pressures countries to reject Cuban aid during coronavirus pandemic

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Ramzan Kadyrov, the man behind Chechnya’s brutal gay purges, says people with coronavirus should be ‘killed’

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro calls coronavirus ‘a little flu,’ claims strong measures unnecessary

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Taiwan foreign minister invites U.S. reporters expelled by China

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Edward Snowden says COVID-19 could give governments invasive new data-collection powers that could last long after the pandemic

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China’s COVID-19 disinformation push, aided by Canadian group, raises concerns about next pandemic

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More Canadians have now died of coronavirus than SARS

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Saturday, March 28, 2020

99-year-old West Vancouver man recovers from COVID-19 in retirement home

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40% of Russians are against seeing Putin as president after 2024. Young, educated people and Muscovites are the most opposed to resetting the presidential term limits

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Irish Minister for Health: 'There's a special place in hell for those that try to make a quick buck in a global pandemic'

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Sophie Grégoire Trudeau says she has recovered from COVID-19 after two weeks

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China and Vietnam are banning the wild animal trade after the coronavirus spread across the world killing thousands of people. China has now imposed a ban on farming and consumption of “terrestrial wildlife of important ecological, scientific and social value".

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'Stranded at sea': cruise ships around the world are adrift as ports turn them away - At least 10 ships remain at sea – & 4 passengers have died while stranded

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More than 2,000 coronavirus deaths in the US

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Brazil court orders government to stop advising against virus isolation

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Will they ever learn? Chinese markets are still selling bats and slaughtering rabbits on blood-soaked floors as Beijing celebrates 'victory' over the coronavirus.

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Trump’s Narcissistic Punishment Of Withholding Michigan Aid

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Thai king self-isolates in Alpine hotel with harem of 20 women amid pandemic

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Ontario doctors told to stop prescribing unproven drug combination touted by Donald Trump

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A leading South Korean doctor says Trump's 'pride' and 'ego' are putting the world's health at risk

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Heathrow Immigration Officer And His Pharmacist Daughter Die From Coronavirus 24 Hours Apart.

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A Wuhan seafood vendor believed to be one of the first coronavirus patients says 'a lot fewer people would have died' if the Chinese government acted sooner

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The UK govt claims it failed to take part in an EU scheme for coronavirus ventilators because it didn't see the email asking it to take part: The confusion means that the UK will not benefit from the buying power of a 28-country bloc, which could have the effect of reducing prices significantly.

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Coronavirus: Fears for indigenous tribes after doctor in Amazon tests positive. Many members of indigenous tribes have weaker immune systems and so are more vulnerable to diseases such as COVID-19.

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Not wearing masks to protect against coronavirus is a ‘big mistake,’ top Chinese scientist says

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Filipino Teacher, son arrested without warrant in the Philippines over Facebook post: Frustrated that people are hungry amid a lockdown in her city, a public school teacher vents on Facebook. She now faces charges of inciting to sedition.

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Google Bans Infowars Android App Over Coronavirus Claims: Apple kicked Alex Jones out of the App Store in 2018. The Google Play Store has finally followed suit.

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40,000 people have started an ambitious project of recreating the Earth on scale in Minecraft

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Every roof in the city district of Utrecht is to be “greened” with plants and mosses or have solar panels installed under plans driven by the success of a similar scheme for the municipality’s bus stops.

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Friday, March 27, 2020

Violence erupts in China as people try to leave coronavirus-stricken Hubei province

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Interpol seizes 34,000 fake face masks and arrests 121 criminals amid Coronavirus outbreak

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'For Common Benefit of All,' Ireland Nationalizes Hospitals for Duration of Coronavirus Crisis, Sparking Demand for US to Follow Suit

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Wuhan, endless queues for ashes of coronavirus dead cast doubts on numbers

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Urns in Wuhan far exceed death toll, raising more questions about China’s tally - A single mortuary has had 5,000 urns delivered over the past two days, double the city's reported coronavirus death toll

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Canadians have more faith in government to handle coronavirus than Americans and Brits—and less fear for their lives

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Men are getting sicker, dying more often of covid-19, Spain data shows

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India : Porn sites ban lifted to promote home isolation

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101-year-old Italian man recovers from coronavirus

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Germany Has Rolled Out a Staggering €50 Billion Aid Package For Small Businesses That Boosts Artists and Galleries—and Puts Other Countries to Shame - "Artists are not only indispensable, but also vital, especially now," says the country's culture minister

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Jeff Bezos sold $3.4bn of Amazon stock just before Covid-19 collapse

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Coronavirus cases in the United States have surpassed 100,000.

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Barrel of Monkeys now worth more than a barrel of Alberta oil

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Bolsonaro urges Brazilians to get back to work, says concern over coronavirus overblown

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'I won't survive': Iranian scientist in US detention says Ice will let Covid-19 kill many | World news

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16-year-old girl becomes France’s youngest coronavirus victim

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Paris hospitals will be swamped within 48 hours after coronavirus spike: official

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A leading South Korean doctor warns that Trump's 'pride' and 'ego' is putting the world's health at risk

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Amid a critical shortage, pandemic ventilator inventor makes his design open source

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Boris Johnson Has Tested Positive For Coronavirus

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Iranian media reports nearly 300 people have been killed and more than 1,000 sickened by ingesting toxic methanol across the Islamic Republic out of the false belief it kills the new coronavirus.

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Bill Gates on coronavirus: We need an 'extreme shutdown' of 6 to 10 weeks

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Thursday, March 26, 2020

Deliberately coughing on emergency workers to be punishable by two years in jail: 'We will not hesitate to prosecute anybody who threatens them as they go about their vital duties,' says Director of Public Prosecutions (UK)

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The ozone layer is healing, new study finds - It heralds a rare success in the reversal of environmental damage and shows that global action can make a difference

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Donald Trump signs TAIPEI Act to support Taiwan’s international relations

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Livethread IX: Global COVID-19 Pandemic

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A British company behind a 10-minute coronavirus antibody test, which will cost about a $1, has begun sending prototypes to laboratories for validation

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Abortion access will be maintained across Canada amid COVID-19 outbreak

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The real death toll for Covid-19 is at least 4 times the official numbers (Italy)

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Spain says coronavirus tests it bought from China are failing to detect positive cases

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Brazil's State Governors Ignore Bolsonaro's Request to Relax Quarantine

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Chinese media caught erasing history and 'Wuhan virus' from reports

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North Korea asking for aid, while denying any coronavirus cases: report

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Germany takes in 47 coronavirus patients from Italy

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Christian pastor who thought COVID-19 is just ‘mass hysteria’ is among the first in Virginia to die from virus

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Super-fit cycling fanatic, 40, with no underlying health conditions, battles COVID-19 as wife tells young people 'you are not invincible'

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Indian government announces $22 Billion relief fund for people affected by lockdown. Including free food for 800 million people.

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Beware second waves of COVID-19 if lockdowns eased early: study

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Egyptian authorities have forced a Guardian journalist to leave the country after she reported on a scientific study that said Egypt was likely to have many more coronavirus cases than have been officially confirmed.

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CD Projekt RED Donates $950,000 to Stop the Spread of Coronavirus in Poland.

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Coronavirus-infected tourist, 37, is thrown in detention after 'continuing her holiday in Australia instead of self- isolating'

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Public decries 'elite privilege' as Indonesia's lawmakers, relatives get tested first for coronavirus

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Italy’s death toll rises above 7,000 — but the number of new cases declines for the 4th day in a row: Death toll from the virus passed the 7,500 mark on Wednesday, the country’s Civil Protection Agency said, however it noted that the rate of new cases of contagion fell for the fourth day running.

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‘Shocking and disgusting’: Tenants in Canada face rent increases despite coronavirus crisis

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China's factories reopen, only to fire workers as virus shreds global trade

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Putin announces paid leave to all Russians next week to slow down COVID-19 spread

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At least 59% of cases in Wuhan, China went unreported, study says

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A Doctor Was Assaulted On Her Way To The Hospital. She’s Not The Only Medic Being Attacked.

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Up to 10 per cent of recovered coronavirus patients in Wuhan study tested positive later

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Dozens of elephants in Thailand permanently freed from carrying tourists in the wake of COVID-19 downturn.

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Coronavirus: Iceland’s mass testing finds half of carriers show no symptoms

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India announces world’s largest food security scheme to 800 million people at $0.027/kg for wheat, $ 0.040/kg for rice for next three months, to support the financially distressed population amidst the coronavirus outbreak

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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

China allocates 3% to WHO fundraising for Coronaviruses: China donated less than 3% to the World Health Organization’s $ 675 million fundraising campaign – angering U.S. officials who say the country is responsible for it epidemic and should do more.

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“We are not going to die in our cubicles!” – Wildcat strikes erupt at call centers across Brazil

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The former FBI agent Bob Levinson, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 2007, has died in Iranian custody, his family said

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China promotes bear bile as coronavirus treatment, alarming wildlife advocates

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LEAK shows politicians and relatives received ‘VIP’ testing: Leaked official data showing Philippine authorities tested at least two dozen politicians and public officials, as well as their relatives, even when they had no coronavirus symptoms has fuelled public anger in the country.

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Bauer offers to make protective medical gear instead of hockey equipment | CBC Sports

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Oil price may fall to $10 a barrel as world runs out of storage space

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Venezuela announces 6-month rent suspension, guarantees workers’ wages, bans lay-offs

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British 21-year-old with no pre-existing conditions dies from coronavirus

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Senator from Philippines who tested positive for COVID19 violates quarantine protocol, brings wife for caesarean delivery, endangering hospital staffs and patients.

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Jeff Bezos, world’s richest man, asks public to donate to Amazon relief fund

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Indian Mylab develops a test that detects Covid-19 in 2.5hrs and cost ~$15 for 1 test-kit which diagnoses 100 patients.

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Italian engineer's idea turns scuba masks into ventilators saving coronavirus patients' lives

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Those who intentionally spread coronavirus could be charged as terrorists

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Prince Charles resulted positive to Covid-19

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Singaporean scientists develop a test that detects Covid-19 in 5 minutes

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Coronavirus: Russia aggressively pushing disinformation, EU warns

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Toronto is gathering cellphone location data from telecoms to find out where people are still congregating amid coronavirus shutdown

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Supermarket in Switzerland remains fully stocked as residents stay calm during coronavirus pandemic

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Priests give communion with shared spoon as Romania COVID-19 cases grow

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