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The proposal by European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen is intended to heal a bitter divide among EU member states over how to respond to the severe economic recession that will result from the epidemic.
Fact-checking organizations, which often operate on relatively small budgets, are seeing a surge in demand for their work as mistaken or maliciously false information about the pandemic spreads, according to Alexios Mantzarlis of the Google News Lab.
Washington: Another 6.65 million US workers filed for unemployment benefits last week, the most ever recorded, as the coronavirus forces businesses to shut down nationwide, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The figure for the week ended March 28 was double the number of first-time applications for jobless benefits registered in the previou
"This includes the play-off matches for UEFA Euro 2020 and qualifying matches for UEFA Women's Euro 2021," said European football's governing body in a statement.
New York remains the hardest-hit area in America, turning tennis courts into a hospital zone
Traders were on tenterhooks before US jobless claims data, which will again lay bare the impact of COVID-19 on the world's biggest economy after dire figures last week.
The worst-hit countries are Italy with 13,155 fatalities and Spain with 10,003 -- both have more than 100,000 confirmed infections.
"We all know people who think nothing of bringing colds into work to share with everyone -- it will be the same for coronavirus."
"In two or three years, it will not be possible to spend the sums we have been seeing because every country will be affected. In all likelihood a new footballing world will emerge from this."
As the pandemic outbreak forced many countries to shut nightspots, clubs and DJs live-stream via apps
While hospitals in overwhelmed regions such as New York are in dire lack of personal protective gear, such shortages haven't yet hit other parts of the country.
"The Chinese Communist Party has lied, is lying, and will continue to lie about coronavirus to protect the regime."
It is with great regret that the main board of the All England Club (AELTC) and the committee of management of the Championships have today decided that The Championships 2020 will be cancelled due to public health concerns linked to the coronavirus epidemic, say organisers
China says all detected asymptomatic cases and their close contacts must undergo 14-day centralised quarantine.
Iran is battling one of the world's deadliest coronavirus outbreaks with 3,036 deaths and 47,593 infections.
The most deaths were recorded in Italy, with some 12,428 fatalities, followed by Spain with 8,189 and France with 3,523.
"The extreme day-to-day variation in reported COVID-19 deaths is far more than we would expect from chance variability and must be due to reporting practices."
A few blocks away at Pier 90 sits the white, imposing US navy hospital ship Comfort, with 1,000 beds and 12 operating rooms -- also for non-coronavirus patients.
The researchers used a combination of case reports, public health information and mobile phone location tracking to investigate the spread of the virus.
The pair, who formally stepped down as senior members of the British royal family this week, have reportedly already relocated to sunny California.
