China says all coronavirus clinical research must be registered
Medical workers in protective suits wait to check the temperature of a car driver outside a cemetery, as China holds a national mourning for those who died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), on...
View ArticleFactbox: Latest on the spread of the coronavirus around the world
(Reuters) – Global cases of the new coronavirus have shot past 1 million with more than 54,000 fatalities, a Reuters tally showed on Friday, as the world economy nosedived. Police officers adjust...
View ArticleChina mourns thousands who died in country’s coronavirus epidemic
BEIJING/WUHAN, China (Reuters) – China on Saturday mourned the thousands of “martyrs” who have died in the new coronavirus outbreak, flying the national flag at half mast throughout the country and...
View ArticleSpain to extend state of emergency to April 26, rise in infections slows
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will ask parliament to extend lockdown measures by 15 more days until April 26 as the daily pace of new coronavirus infections and deaths slowed...
View ArticleHow the coronavirus job cuts played out by sector and demographics
(Reuters) – The job losses suffered in March as the U.S. economy shut down in the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic were widespread but still were disproportionately felt in a handful of...
View ArticleTrump says he may take drug to treat coronavirus, questions states’...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Saturday doubled down on his support for a drug that is still being tested to treat the coronavirus, saying he might take the medicine himself and...
View ArticleSingle passenger flights: The daily woes of airlines, and the crew still working
(Reuters) – When Reuters photographer Carlos Barria boarded American Airlines flight 4511 from Washington Reagan National Airport to New Orleans on Friday for an assignment, he was the only passenger...
View ArticleUnited slashes New York-area flights due to coronavirus
(Reuters) – United Airlines (UAL.O) said late Saturday it will drastically reduce flights to two New York City airports amid the coronavirus outbreak. FILE PHOTO: United Airlines passenger jets taxi...
View ArticleExclusive: Planned $1 billion U.S. aid cut would hit Afghan security force funds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A planned $1 billion cut in U.S. aid to Afghanistan would come from funds for Afghan security forces, according to three U.S. sources, a step experts said would undercut both...
View ArticleUK coronavirus death toll rises by 621 to 4,934
People sit on the grass as police patrol in St James’ Park, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, London, Britain, April 5, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) – The...
View ArticleU.S. enters ‘hardest, saddest’ week in coronavirus crisis
(Reuters) – The United States enters one of the most critical weeks so far in the coronavirus crisis with the death toll exploding in New York, Michigan and Louisiana and some governors calling for a...
View ArticleBiden says coronavirus may force Democrats to hold ‘virtual’ presidential...
(Reuters) – Former Vice President Joe Biden, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said on Sunday the party may be forced to host a “virtual” nominating convention in August due...
View ArticleTrump hopes virus leveling-off in hot spots; advisers take tempered view
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump expressed hope on Sunday that the United States was seeing a “leveling-off” of the coronavirus crisis in some of the nation’s hot spots, but some of his...
View ArticleU.S. faces ‘really bad’ week as coronavirus deaths spike
(Reuters) – The United States is entering what a senior official warned on Sunday would be the “hardest” week of the coronavirus crisis as the death toll mounted, but some saw glimmers of hope from a...
View ArticleUK’s plan B if ‘Team Johnson’ is incapacitated? Answer is unclear
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s constitution offers no clear answer to the question now on many Britons’ minds: what happens if Prime Minister Boris Johnson, undergoing tests in hospital after persistent...
View ArticleOil slips on oversupply fears, but stocks jump on virus slowdown hopes
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Oil prices skidded on Monday after Saudi-Russian negotiations to cut output were delayed, keeping oversupply concerns alive, while stocks jumped as investors were encouraged by a...
View ArticleWhite House, experts clash over use of drug for coronavirus
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Monday acknowledged that members of the task force dealing with the coronavirus crisis clashed over the efficacy of the malaria drug,...
View ArticleWith hospitals stressed, U.S. enters ‘peak death week’ in coronavirus crisis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States entered what an official called the “peak death week” of the coronavirus on Monday while a watchdog report said hospitals were struggling to maintain and...
View ArticleU.S. consumers fear for jobs, debt payments because of coronavirus: New York...
FILE PHOTO: A woman crosses the empty of street Park Avenue in Manhattan as the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in New York, U.S., April 5, 2020. REUTERS / Eduardo Munoz (Reuters)...
View ArticleS&P 500 set to recoup $1 trillion in value as virus deaths slow
(Reuters) – The S&P 500 was on track to recoup about $1 trillion in market value on Monday in a frantic rally after New York, the biggest U.S. coronavirus hot spot, reported a fall in daily...
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