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Be calm, follow what doctors say, advises cured Kerala resident 29 Mar 2020 - 10:47 am
FILE PHOTO: Medical staff with protective clothing are seen inside a ward specialised in receiving any person who may have been infected with coronavirus, at the Rajiv Ghandhi Government General hospital in Chennai, India, January 29, 2020. REUTERS/P. Rav
Pakistan sees increase in positive virus tests 29 Mar 2020 - 10:07 am
Policemen wearing facemasks stand guard at a checkpoint beside the Grand Faisal Mosque during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Islamabad on March 27, 2020. / AFP / Aamir QURESHI
Passengers on ‘Death Ship’ plead for rescue after virus strikes 29 Mar 2020 - 09:46 am
Passengers board a lifeboat from Holland America Line cruise ship MS Zaandam to be transported to her sister ship Rotterdam (R) on Panama Bay, Panama during a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak on March 28, 2020. Panama Maritime Authority/Handout va
New York residents urged to avoid travel as virus spreads 29 Mar 2020 - 09:30 am
NEW YORK, USA - MARCH 28: A general view shows that streets of New York City are seen quiet due to coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in New York City on March 28, 2020. U.S. has warned the citizens in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut to avoid all unnecessa
US reports first infant death from coronavirus 29 Mar 2020 - 09:12 am
A woman walks outside the University of Illinois Hospital. REUTERS/Joshua Lott
Europe death toll from coronavirus surges past 20,000 28 Mar 2020 - 05:54 pm
A Bundeswehr handout photo shows staff in protective suits leaving the German air force Airbus A-310
Portugal to treat migrants as residents during coronavirus crisis 28 Mar 2020 - 05:32 pm
A health worker at a drive-thru coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing center in Lisbon, Portugal, March 26, 2020. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante
Russia to close borders starting on March 30 28 Mar 2020 - 05:27 pm
A municipal vehicle disinfects a street on the outskirts of Moscow on March 28, 2020, as the city attempts to curb the spread of the COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. / AFP / Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV
UK coronavirus deaths pass 1,000: official 28 Mar 2020 - 04:52 pm
Staff prepare to load equipment into London Ambulance Service vehicles in the east car park at the ExCeL London exhibition centre in London on March 28, 2020. AFP / Glyn KIRK
Merkel thanks compliant Germans, shutdown to continue until at least April 20 28 Mar 2020 - 02:59 pm
German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes a press statement on the spread of the new coronavirus COVID-19 at the Chancellery in Berlin. / AFP / POOL / Michael Kappeler
France, Italy step up push for crisis tools resisted by Germany 28 Mar 2020 - 02:51 pm
Medical staff install a patient aboard a French medical helicopter NH90 of the 1st RHC near Mercy hospital (CHR Metz), eastern France, to be evacuated to a German hospital in Essen, on March 28, 2020, amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 caused by the novel
Uzbek doctor, 39, dies after coronavirus self-treatment 28 Mar 2020 - 02:46 pm
Units disinfect a vehicle in the Uzbek capital Tashkent at a checkpoint, built to control vehicles within the measures taken against the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic on March 24, 2020.  Bahtiyar Abdülkerimov - Anadolu
Coronavirus curfew delays Vietnamese rice inspection in Iraq 28 Mar 2020 - 02:42 pm
Iraqis use an anti-riot water-cannon vehicle to spray disinfecting liquid in the streets of the centre of the southern city of Basra on March 25, 2020, in a bid to slow down the spread of the novel coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease. / AFP / Hus
Virus infections top 600,000 worldwide, long fight ahead 28 Mar 2020 - 02:15 pm
Jordanian soldiers check a car as they guard a check point in the northern governorate of Irbid, as the city has been isolated and people were banned from entering it, after the number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases have increased in the area, Ir
Oman confirms 21 new COVID-19 cases 28 Mar 2020 - 01:02 pm
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Italy, Spain suffer record virus deaths as infection rate surges 28 Mar 2020 - 12:16 pm
A man walks his dog in an empty street in Madrid on March 27, 2020 amid a national lockdown to fight the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. AFP / Gabriel Bouys
New York medical workers decry 'abysmal' lack of coronavirus protection 28 Mar 2020 - 10:17 am
Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) lift a patient that was identified to have coronavirus disease (COVID-19) into an ambulance while wearing protective gear, as the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in New York City, New York, U.S., M
Italy tops 9,000 coronavirus deaths, overtakes China in cases 27 Mar 2020 - 08:14 pm
Two persons pray close to the Vatican as Pope Francis delivers an extraordinary