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People who had lived under the cloud of East Germany's loathed Stasi secret police might be remembering how things worked three decades ago.

Governor Andrew Cuomo thanked Trump after received a shipment of 1,000 donated ventilators from China as hospitals faced alarming shortages of medical supplies and officials recorded 3,500 deaths in new York alone.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that the lockdown will be extended till April 26 after officials found a 7 per cent increase in total Covid-19 deaths, compared with the roughly 20% increase registered a week ago.

Europe’s three worst-hit countries — Italy, Spain and France — accounted for more than 32,000 dead, or over half the global toll.

In cities across America, many lower-income workers continue to move around, while those who make more money are staying home and limiting their exposure to the coronavirus, according to smartphone location data analyzed by The New York Times.

The advice came as America logged another huge rise in its death toll -- almost 1,500 in one day -- and as new infections continued unabated.

The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and Graduate Record Examinations (GRE), are crucial exams for admissions in top universities across the globe.

Until now Japan has been hospitalising all coronavirus patients, regardless of whether they are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. But beds are already filling up in Tokyo and threaten to elsewhere, experts said this week.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week released for the first time a report showing that 78% of COVID-19 patients in ICUs in the United States had an underlying health condition.

With many countries imposing lockdowns or other restrictions to combat the spread of the virus, cities have seen buzzing tourist centres suddenly empty and the sounds of nature emerge as traffic noise recedes.

Among the crimes Alek Sigley was accused of committing was posting a picture of a toy tank on Instagram, which his interrogators told him was military espionage.

For people of many faiths, and even none at all, the coronavirus outbreak can feel lately like the end of the world is near.

Referring to Ronald Regan’s ‘government is the problem’ statement, Chomsky added that the former president had meant that decision-making has to be given even more to the business world.

Doing so would enable governments or generic drugmakers to manufacture and sell the products at much lower prices than are currently available in the world market.

Gates urged US leaders to ensure that the lockdown process is strictly followed and said that shutdown anywhere means “shutdown everywhere.”

All 383 people on board of the Eleftherios Venizelos cruise ship have been quarantined after 20 passengers tested positive for Covid-19.