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The US State Department said it is providing $2.9 million to help India prepare labs, activate case finding and event-based surveillance, and support technical experts for preparedness.

Beijing has been racing to control the number of infections being brought into the country, mostly Chinese nationals returning home from overseas, including large numbers of students abroad.

Initial claims for unemployment benefits rose to 3.28 million in the latest week from a revised 282,000 the previous week, eclipsing the previous record of 695,000 set in 1982, the US Labor Department said.

Trump was asked if he agreed that the WHO showed favouritism and the US should re-explore its relationship with the health agency once the dust settles.

Infection among health workers in Italy and Spainis becoming widespread as protective equipment and tests have been in severely short supply for weeks.

The research has some good news for the tropics as it suggests that Covid-19 will find it harder to gain a foothold in the tropics than in the temperate regions of the planet.

Defense Minister Margarita Robles said the elderly residents were "completely left to fend for themselves, or even dead, in their beds." She said the discovery over the weekend included several nursing homes but did not name them.

The USGS had initially said the quake measured 7.8, but revised that figure down to 7.5.

The country now has 827 cases and 4 fatalities since the outbreak began.

The city rolled out the technology just before the epidemic reached Russia, ignoring protests and legal complaints over sophisticated state surveillance.

Yemen's broken healthcare system has yet to register any cases of the disease, but if the pandemic does hit, the impact will be unimaginable in a country with the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

The attempted break-in at the WHO was first flagged to Reuters by Alexander Urbelis, a cybersecurity expert and attorney with the New York-based Blackstone Law Group, which tracks suspicious internet domain registration activity.

Australian PM Scott Morrison said transport of essential supplies and travel on compassionate grounds could continue but people should cancel travel plans ahead of the upcoming Easter school holidays.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, India had announced it will not allow any international commercial passenger aircraft to land from March 22 to March 29.

The Canadian Council for Refugees said it was "shocked" at the decision to turn back migrants.

On Thursday, the Bank of England also announced a 200 billion-pound increase in its bond-buying programme as well as a cut in interest rates to a new all-time low of 0.1%.