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Because health measures during an epidemic are only temporary, when you relax them the epidemic starts again until it reaches an ad-hoc herd immunity, sometimes over several months or years, experts said.

Tighter travel restrictions were imposed in several countries while Malaysia deployed its army to enforce a lockdown as the number of cases in the region soared past 95,000 -- a third of the world's infections.

The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating effect on air transport in the United States and elsewhere, as several countries have imposed far-reaching travel bans.

Despite stringent restrictions ranging from flight bans to school closures, countries south of the Sahara have recorded two deaths in three days, and the case tally on Friday had more than tripled in the space of a week.

The first World Poetry Day was held on March 21, 2000. It was done to recognize the role of poetry in art and culture.

Mainland China had 41 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections on Friday, the country's National Health Commission said, all imported from abroad.

It said 142 countries have abolished death penalty in practice by the end of 2018, even as India figures among 29 nations which pardoned a death case that year.

The country's drop in cases offers a ray of hope for the rest of the world as a slew of other nations go into lockdown in an effort to emulate China's tactic against the disease.

Underemployment is also expected to increase on a large scale, as the economic consequences of the virus outbreak translate into reductions in working hours and wages.

The care home is responsible for over half the deaths in the northwestern state of Washington — itself the US epicentre of the deadly pandemic.

The Microsoft founder and philanthropist said a combination of testing and social isolation clearly works.

The government said the measures will 'reinforce the fight and prevention' of the pandemic and the initial 15-day period could last for several months.

The country's health ministry announced its first cases on Wednesday, a day after it closed its borders to all foreigners as measures against the virus pandemic.

Authorities are monitoring the welfare of the Indian crew who have been put on mandatory quarantine after 21 passengers on the cruise ship tested positive for the virus.

Trump did not face any meaningful competition for the Republican nomination and the Florida and Illinois results were a foregone conclusion according to many.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer joined British Prime Minister Boris Johnson during his daily briefing from 10 Downing Street in London to announce that he is making available 330 billion pounds of loan guarantees to businesses to help them meet their day...