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Anthony Costello, a paediatrician who is an expert in epidemiology, said the government should make sure its response to the second and additional waves of infection was not too slow.

Overall, about one-fifth of deaths from the virus in the United States have been tied to nursing homes or other long-term care facilities, despite efforts to curb the spread.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson initially refrained from approving the stringent controls that other European leaders imposed but then closed down the country when projections showed a quarter of a million people could die in the UK.

Boris Johnson is recovering from COVID-19 after spending several days in intensive care with the disease. Symonds said on April 4 she had suffered the main symptoms of the coronavirus but was on the mend.

Leaders are anxious to reopen factories, schools, shops and to repair the economic damage from the pandemic that has infected more than 2 million people and claimed more than 137,000 lives.

Turkey registered 115 COVID-19 deaths and 4,281 new cases for the past 24 hours, Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter. Tuesday's toll stood at 107.

China is busy tapping into the vast business opportunities of export of key medical goods, especially ventilators and PPE, across the world, including India, where both private and government bodies are placing orders for the import of these products.

Health workers in the Japansese city of Osaka are resorting to wearing garbage bags over their scrubs to protect against coronavirus.

Officials said they registered short-term rises in Caesium-137 particles in the Kiev area to the south of the plant, but radiation levels were within normal limits overall and did not require additional protection measures.

Pell walked free last week after the Australian High Court cleared him of five counts of sexually abusing two 13-year-old choirboys in the 1990s.

Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire had previously targeted a six-percent GDP drop for the year, but that was based on a lockdown that lasted just one month, instead of the two-month period announced by Macron in a televised address Monday night.

MIT will also suspend merit increases for the coming academic year, beginning with those that would normally be awarded in July.

Spain is one of the worst-hit countries in the world, and saw the daily death rate fall for three consecutive days last week, only to rise again on Sunday.

Governor Andrew Cuomo said lower average hospitalization rates and intubations suggested a "plateauing" of the epidemic and that he was working on a plan to gradually reopen the economy.

As of Saturday, the death toll in the UK stands at 9,875, increasing rapidly day on day. The death toll in neighbouring European countries stands at 19,468 in Italy among the worst hit countries in the world, and Germany at 2,871.

The current situation across the globe due to COVID-19 pandemic reminds firebrand writer Taslima Nasreen of her days as a doctor treating patients during the cholera outbreak in Bangladesh in the early 90s.