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At least a dozen cities or provinces have encouraged people to buy cars, mainly by offering cash subsidies of as much as $1,400 (Rs 1.07 lakh) per vehicle.

The latest tally by Johns Hopkins shows the additional deaths from the coronavirus in 24 hours in the US was the heaviest daily toll recorded in the world.

Nine suicide bombers carried out a series of devastating blasts that tore through three churches and three luxury hotels, killing 279 people and injuring 593 others on the Easter Sunday on April 21, 2019.

New York's health department announced almost 4,000 people who were never tested positive were presumed to have died from coronavirus.

The city will also start buying another 50,000 kits from a company in Indiana beginning Monday, he added, meaning New York will soon have 100,000 new tests a week.

Hanoi is chairing an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting on Covid-19, with the country touting its success so far in containing the virus with extensive quarantines and social distancing.

Scientists have said there is not enough evidence to prove that the approach would rev up the immune system enough to matter against the new coronavirus.

The announcement by the technology and retail colossus highlighted surging demand for online commerce with the pandemic forcing people to shelter in place.

From 2014 on everything from Crimea's annexation from Ukraine to allegations of election meddling, Moscow has sought to rebuild ties since the coronavirus outbreak.

The village on Java island has deployed a cast of "ghosts" to patrol the streets, hoping that age-old superstition will keep people indoors and safely away from the coronavirus.

Stall owners in Wuhan said they were not optimistic after their business was badly hurt by the strict shutdowns in China, which ordered a temporary ban on trade and consumption of wildlife in January.

The number of new infections from the disease climbed by 5,234, leaving Britain with 78,991 confirmed COVID-19 cases, the health ministry said in its update.

Her recovery from the disease that is killing chiefly the old offered some hope to health workers at Istanbul's Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty hospital as they battle the outbreak.

The idea of providing proof of immunity to allow workers to return to jobs is being considered in many countries, including Britain and Italy. But as with any test, antibody tests are not perfect.

The 15-year-old boy, the first Yanomami to be diagnosed with the virus, was hospitalised a week ago at an intensive care unit in Boa Vista.

There are currently no approved treatments or preventive vaccines for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus that has killed more than 100,000 people worldwide.