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Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said the number of commuters on one of Tokyo's busiest subway lines had decreased by 38% since the emergency was declared, less than the government's target for an 80% reduction.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday refused the resignation of his interior minister over his handling of an abrupt nationwide lockdown that led to panic buying.

Senior officials and staff at German government ministries were invited 'to speak in positive terms about China's management of the coronavirus,' newspaper Die Welt said, citing a confidential foreign ministry document.

US officials warned Americans to expect alarming numbers of coronavirus deaths this week, even as there was evidence that the number of new infections was flattening in New York state, the epicenter of the US outbreak.

The shortage of by-mail ballots and the coronavirus threat appeared to significantly depress the Wisconsin turnout, and threatens coming primaries for the November presidential and congressional races.

SARS-CoV-2 is enveloped in popsicle-shaped 'spike' proteins. These spikes are reportedly what give coronaviruses their name, because they create a crown, or corona-like appearance.

The cleric said people are unable to fathom how serious the situation is and they wound end infecting their mothers, grandmothers, children and other innocents if they don't follow the lockdown.

Pompeo on Wednesday said the effort from the State Department to repatriate Americans from more than 90 countries is without parallel in our lifetime.

Governors, mayors and physicians have voiced alarm for weeks over crippling scarcities of personal protective gear for first-responders and front-line healthcare workers.

On Wednesday, WHO Director-General accused Taiwan of being linked to a months-long campaign against him amid the COVID-19 pandemic and said he has been personally attacked, including receiving at times, death threats and racist abuse.

The record-breaking figure of 1,973 deaths brings the total number of US fatalities to 14,695.

"As of 5pm on 7 April, of those hospitalised in the UK who tested positive for coronavirus, 7,097 have sadly died," the health ministry tweeted.

A statement issued by Downing Street and St Thomas’ Hospital said that Johnson was receiving "standard oxygen treatment and is breathing without any other assistance."

Workplace disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are expected to wipe out labour equivalent to the effort of 195 million full-time workers, or 6.7% of hours clocked worldwide, in the second quarter of this year, the International Labour Organization...

The occasion was marked with a light show on either side of the broad Yangtze river, with skyscrapers and bridges radiating animated images of health workers aiding patients, along with one displaying the words heroic city.

Up to 20% of U.S. children infected by the novel coronavirus require hospitalization, with infants under age 1 most likely to be in that group, according to the government's first in-depth analysis of the disease in the youngest patient population.