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As New York's death toll climbed by more than 250 in a single day, Andrew Cuomo said an additional 1 million health care workers are needed to tackle the health crisis.

A man in his 90s who was a resident at the Peasant View Nursing Home died Saturday night after testing positive for COVID-19, Carroll County Health Health Officer Ed Singer said at a news conference.

Doctors are employing two drugs in combination — hydroxychloroquine (HC) and azithromycin (AZ) — to treat Covid-19 patients.

The Trump administration, which has faced criticism at home for its handling of the crisis, has also launched a rhetorical campaign over the pandemic.

The US President issued orders for General Motors to produce ventilators for coronavirus patients under the Defense Production Act as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise in the country.

Authorities have extended closure of universities, schools and have warned violators with legal consequences as Iran reports 27,017 cases and 2,077 deaths due to the pandemic.

The research, published in The Lancet Public Health journal, says the closure of schools and workplaces in Wuhan have reduced the number of COVID-19 cases and substantially delayed the epidemic peak.

China's urban jobless rate hit 6.2% in February, up one percentage point from the end of 2019, and a record since the statistics bureau started publishing the data in early 2018.

The package to aid business, workers and health care systems amid growing rate of infection that has killed nearly 1,000 people and have sickened 55,000 people across US.

Prosecutors accuse Saudi Arabia's deputy intelligence chief Ahmed al-Assiri and the royal court's media czar Saud al-Qahtani of leading the operation and giving orders to a Saudi hit team.

The nationwide tally of the COVID-19 patients has soared to 990 with 410 cases in Sindh; 110 in Balochistan; 296 in Punjab; 78 in K-P; 80 in Gilgit-Baltistan; 15 in Islamabad; and one in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, The Express Tribune reported.

The unprecedented economic rescue package would give direct payments to most Americans, expand unemployment benefits and provide a $367 billion program for small businesses.

The image of the Pacific ocean was being broadcast live on social networks via tourism operator Adam Duford's smartphone, with the crashing waves appearing pixelated and interrupted by bad signal.

During a live town hall broadcast on Fox News Channel and later at a briefing with reporters at the White House, he said he would like to have businesses opening their doors again by Easter, which will be celebrated on April 12.

OYO, in a press release, said it is "opening the doors to its hotels" and offering free stays to doctors, nurses and other medical first responders who are helping fight against COVID-19.

The Arab world's most populous country, Egypt, as well as Syria, a country ravaged by nine years of war, became the latest countries to impose nightly curfews starting this week.