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The village had been building up to this moment for a decade. For months, hotels and restaurants had staffed up to cope with the onslaught of visitors. Local craftsmen worked overtime to sculpt the stage props.

The UK government on March 23 ordered a three-week shutdown of non-essential shops and services to cut close-contact transmission of the virus.

The deadly virus has infected more than 2,800 people and claimed over 40 lives in Pakistan.

Mobile phone masts have in recent days been vandalised and telecoms staff abused in Britain over claims that linked 5G mobile telecommunications masts to the spread of the novel coronavirus in the country.

Writing from his home in Rome amid lockdown, the author explores the mathematical structures of contagion and also investigates how the virus itself is a manifestation of an interconnected world struggling to build a sustainable global community.

Asked whether Canada would retaliate if the U.S. blockade goes ahead, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Ottawa would 'do whatever it takes to defend the national interest.'

Two new facilities will be built in Bristol in the west and Harrogate in the north to house up to 1,500 patients.

The UNGA recognised the "unprecedented effects of the pandemic, including the severe disruption to societies and economies, as well as to global travel and commerce, and the devastating impact on the livelihood of people.

And even though she has since been reunited with her son, neither she nor her husband have been allowed to physically touch him without gloves as they undergo an extended period of quarantine.

Grupo Modelo, the brewer of Corona beer, said the measure was in line with the Mexican government's order to suspend all non-essential activities until April 30 to slow the spread of coronavirus.

"We've already done a practice run... I have an appointment with a family of five tomorrow and next week I'm due to hear a parishioner confess every sin from his entire life," Father Adam Pawlowski said.

Nikki Haley lashed out at China saying that the country 'cares more about its reputation than helping the rest of the world defeat a virus that was started in their country.'

The Chinese officials have, on international forums like Group of 20, said that their country has made sacrifices in containing the spread of virus and would take these initiatives forward to other countries affected.

Even as confirmed coronavirus cases across the world grew exponentially, the Security Council under the presidency of China last month, did not hold any discussions on the pandemic.

Pearl, the South Asia Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal, was kidnapped and later beheaded in Karachi in 2002.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa made the request on Wednesday during a telephone discussion with the Director-General of WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.