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Gun-toting protesters in US occupy streets amid virus chaos
May 02, 2020 13:20Protests against stay-at-home orders to combat the coronavirus pandemic have been held across the United States amid growing anger over the policy’s economic impact that has left millions of Americans unemployed.
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World should continue to learn how Wuhan dealing with COVID-19: WHO official
May 02, 2020 08:54The world needs to continue to learn how China's Wuhan is dealing with COVID-19 after it cleared all severe cases and lifted the lockdown, said an official with the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday.
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Bali’s mysterious immunity to Covid-19
May 02, 2020 04:33Indonesian tourist island has relatively few cases while the disease rips through other areas of archipelagic nation. Nearly three months into the Covid-19 pandemic and there is little to suggest that the Indonesian resort island of Bali is in the grip of a pending public health disaster with only 86 cases and two deaths.
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US scuppers G20 coronavirus statement on strengthening WHO
May 02, 2020 04:20US hostility to the World Health Organization (WHO) scuppered the publication of a communique by G20 health ministers on Sunday (19 April ) that committed to strengthening the WHO’s mandate in coordinating a response to the global coronavirus pandemic.
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America’s super-rich see their wealth rise by $282 billion in three weeks of coronavirus pandemic
May 02, 2020 04:14Amid the coronavirus pandemic, US billionaires have accrued more wealth in the past three weeks alone than they made in total prior to 1980.
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White House blocks Fauci from testifying to Congress on coronavirus response
May 02, 2020 03:47The White House issued an emailed statement after a spokesman for the House of Representatives committee holding the hearing said the panel had been informed by Trump administration officials that Fauci had been blocked from testifying.
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US death toll from novel coronavirus passes 65,000
May 02, 2020 02:07The respiratory illness known as COVID-19 has so far infected more than 1,119,000 people across the United States and killed more than 65,000, according to the latest updates.
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Trump increases his estimate of COVID deaths in US to 100,000
May 02, 2020 01:39US President Donald Trump on Friday seemingly increased his estimate of possible deaths in the United States from the coronavirus, telling a White House event he hopes for less than 100,000 fatalities, a higher upper limit than the 60,000 to 70,000 deaths he discussed on Monday.
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Trump: New tariffs on China 'certainly an option'
May 02, 2020 01:31US President Donald Trump has said imposing new tariffs on China is “certainly an option” in retaliation for the spread of the coronavirus out of Wuhan, China.
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Macron says normal life still far away as France needs recovery
May 02, 2020 01:23French President Emmanuel Macron says normal life is still far away from the country even as it moves to end a weeks-long lockdown imposed over the new coronavirus pandemic.