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Egyptian police fired tear gas on Saturday to disperse a crowd of people who gathered in a village near the Nile Delta to prevent the burial of a doctor who died of coronavirus, according to local newspapers and footage on social media.

Some advisers, however, would prefer a less-is-more approach. They have quietly recommended he not spend so much time at the briefings to avoid being distracted from the challenge at hand and bickering with reporters.

Easter offers a message of hope in people's "darkest hour," Pope Francis said, as he celebrated a late-night vigil Mass Saturday in St. Peter's Basilica, with the public barred because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Planning and Development Minister Asad Umar said that Prime Minister Imran Khan will take a decision after his meeting with the National Coordination Committee on COVID-19.

The attacks were fueled by the same cause, government officials said: an internet conspiracy theory that links the spread of the coronavirus to an ultrafast wireless technology known as 5G.

The health ministry said 1,972 people tested positive for the COVID-19 virus in the past 24 hours, putting the total at 68,192.

There are signs of hope: Even as the number of cases climbs, the rate of infection has started to slow under the nationwide lockdown. But Italy continues to answer for mistakes made before it took effect.

Doctors and nurses can control the robot by using a computer from outside the room, and can hold conversations with the patient via the screen and camera.

Director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there would be worse to come from Covid-19 if the world did not unite to stand up to its spread.

The Harvard analysis is the first nationwide study to show a statistical link, revealing a 'large overlap' between COVID-19 deaths and other diseases associated with long-term exposure to fine particulate matter.

Alice G Wells, the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, cautioned the countries to ensure that the current public health emergency doesn't become a food security emergency due to the halt of the cross-border trade.

The World Health Organization (WHO) voiced concern on Monday that the wearing of medical masks by the general public could exacerbate the shortage for health workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

There was a glimmer of hope, however, in New York, the main focus of the US outbreak. Governor Andrew Cuomo said Monday the death rate had been 'effectively flat' for two days.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also has not publicly reported data on the race and ethnicities of patients tested for COVID-19.

A global shortage of N95 masks and other protective equipment has sparked anger and protests by healthcare workers in the United States and elsewhere.

Canadian health care workers like those in the US are in dire need of the masks that provide more protection against the virus that causes COVID-19.