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Some of the global elite rushed to dream homes in the countryside or were whisked away by private jet to seaside retreats.
China had ramped up capacity to produce more than four million testing kits a day by early April, according to officials.
Overwhelmed by coronavirus deaths, New York City funeral home rented four trucks to hold about 50 corpses.
The announcement comes days after three European airlines Lufthansa Airlines, Swiss Airlines and Austrian Airlines made masks mandatory for their passengers during their flights.
"This morning at approximately 2:15 am, US Secret Service officers responded to the Embassy of Cuba following reports of shots fired," the Secret Service said in a statement.
Services such as Apple Music, App Store, iCloud, Apple Arcade and Apple TV+ are raking in record revenues for the company. At the same time, products such as the AirPods, HomePod and accessories for the Apple Watch and the iPad Pro, to name a few, are also doing well.
"My mother suffered for six days at home, without appropriate medical care. She should have stayed in hospital, they sent her home dying," Lilla Ilona Szeleczki said.
Part of the extra death rate could be explained by ethnic minorities' higher likelihood to live in London or other cities hit hard by the virus, but geography was not the only factor.
Pro-democracy unions and social media posts have called for people to shout slogans in their neighbourhoods on Friday afternoon, despite a ban on more than four people gathering in public places that is aimed at halting the virus.
Trump, who himself faced more than a dozen accusations of sexual harassment and assault before he became president, said he knew little about the claims against Biden, even as his re-election team and Republican campaign operations aggressively push the controversy.
Foreign Office spokesperson Aisha Farooqui called the media reports an 'unfortunate ploy' and said Pakistan plans to enhance regional cooperation in South Asia.
Of the domestic transmission cases, five were in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang and one in the northern region of Inner Mongolia.
Meanwhile, several Republican lawmakers demanding a Congressional hearing alleged that the WHO parroted the Chinese regime's 'disinformation' on multiple occasions, including denying human-to-human transmission of the virus.
The country -- hardest hit by the pandemic in terms of the number of fatalities -- recorded 2,053 deaths on Thursday.
Egged on by President Jair Bolsonaro, who has routinely scoffed at both the virus and stay-at-home policies, Brazilians are heeding his call for revolt.
Trump has criticised Biden's decades-long record as a US senator and as President Barack Obama's vice president.
Mike Pence's visit to the factory came hours after his wife, Karen Pence, defended her husband's decision to not wear a mask during a Tuesday visit to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Reiterating that this is something that could have been contained at Wuhan ground zero, Trump said that China could have contained it. 'They were either unable to, or they chose not to. And the world has suffered greatly,' he said.
“Will it be an overwhelming cure? No, of course not,” Anthony Fauci said. But with its use, “you will free up hospital beds, you will take less stress on the health care system.”
The diatribe from the Republican incumbent came as data showed the United States shed more than 30 million jobs in six weeks, as lockdown measures began to bite across the nation.
New York Police Department responded to a 911 call reported of the bodies.
South Korean health authorities reported four new infections, all imported cases, taking the country's tally to 10,765.
Donald Trump exuded confidence over better days for US after coronavirus deaths as 35 of the 50 states released formals plans to reopen.
In Manaus, corpses are accumulating in a refrigerated container improvised as a morgue freezer as they await burial.
Congressman Ro Khanna urged Trump administration to give refugee status to Sikh and Hindus in Afghanistan, facing persecution by terror outfits.
Trump laid out a vision of a return to pre-coronavirus normalcy — 'with or without' a vaccine — with packed restaurants and filled stadiums.
The federal police are reportedly investigating multiple cases involving Bolsonaro's inner circle, including allegations his son Carlos, a Rio de Janeiro city councilor, oversaw a fake-news campaign to benefit his father.
During an interview in the Oval Office, the Republican president said he did not expect the election to be a referendum on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and added he was surprised the former vice president was doing well.
In an interview, Trump talked tough on China and said he was looking at different options in terms of consequences for Beijing over the virus. "I can do a lot," he said.
For many families in the state, where more than 20,000 people are thought to have died from the virus, finding a funeral home able to accept their relative is a challenge.
The White House 'unfollowing' the Twitter accounts of President Kovind and PM Modi drew reactions on social media in India.
President Donald Trump Wednesday termed the World Health Organization "literally a pipe organ for China" and said the United States will soon come out with its recommendations on the global body, followed by one on Beijing.
South Africa reported its highest daily coronavirus infection in a 24-hour cycle Wednesday, just a day before the countrywide lockdown moves down to the phase-4 of a five-phase plan to combat COVID-19.
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he'll resume flying around the country from next week and looks forward to holding "wild" campaign rallies as soon as he can.
The Trump administration on Wednesday placed five foreign domains of Amazon, including the one in India, to its "notorious markets" list, accusing the global e-commerce giant of engaging in substantial trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy.
Italian and British medical experts are investigating a possible link between the coronavirus pandemic and clusters of severe inflammatory disease in infants who are arriving in hospital with high fever and swollen arteries.
Earlier, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin predicted that the economy could rebound by late summer as states allow the reopening of businesses that have been closed to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The certificates could identify people with antibodies that reduce the risk of they will spread the deadly coronavirus, helping them to resume activities and return to work.
White House adviser Dr Deborah Birx says social distancing will be with Americans through the summer. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards warns of a 'different way of life' until there is a widely available vaccine - maybe not until next year.
So far no date has been set for a vote, as the thorniest issue of the resolution -- how to address the role of the WHO, which has been sharply criticized by the United States -- has yet to be settled.
The total number of US deaths from new coronavirus have reached 58,351, passing the 58,220 which the National Archives records as US losses from combat and other causes, including accidents, in the years-long Southeast Asian war.
In one hospital, refrigerated containers were brought in to store bodies, some of which remained for up to 10 days.
US Vice President Mike Pence chose not to wear a face mask during a tour of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, an apparent violation of the world-renowned medical centre's policy requiring them.
Nearly 70 residents sickened with the coronavirus have died at a Massachusetts home for aging veterans, as state and federal officials try to figure out what went wrong in the deadliest outbreak at a long-term care facility in the US.
China "rebuffed" US efforts to get experts on the ground at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak to help contain its spread, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has alleged.
Biden, who has vowed to pick a woman as his running mate this year, introduced Clinton at the town hall as the person who should now be president.
China on Tuesday went on the offensive against international criticism over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, accusing US politicians of "barefaced lies".
The virus, which originated in China's Wuhan city in mid-November, has killed more than two lakh people and infected over three million globally.
US coronavirus deaths, the highest in the world, now exceed the total number of Americans killed in the 1950-53 Korean War - 36,516.
Jacinda Ardern praised the efforts of New Zealanders, saying: "It's been nearly 5 weeks living and working in ways that just two months ago would have been impossible. But we did. And we have done it together."