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US officials expect alarming numbers of coronavirus deaths this week
Apr 10, 2020 06:35US deaths due to coronavirus topped 16,400 on Thursday, according to a Reuters tally, although there are signs the outbreak might be nearing a peak.
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US: Mile-long line of cars outside California grocery giveaway
Apr 10, 2020 03:39A pop-up food pantry in Southern California in the US on Thursday drew so many people that the line of cars waiting for free groceries stretched about a mile (1.6 km), a haunting sign of how the coronavirus pandemic has hurt the working poor.
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Coronavirus: What about Palestinian prisoners?
Apr 09, 2020 14:42The Palestinians behind bars in the occupied Palestine have nothing to defend themselves from the coronavirus, except perhaps a bar of soap, on top of which they still have to cope with the regime’s deliberate neglect and brutality of torture and occupation.
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Half a billion people likely plunge into poverty by COVID-19 pandemic
Apr 09, 2020 13:43The new COVID-19 pandemic can push some half a billion people across the globe into poverty, Oxfam says, as the contagious disease is raging around the world, taking more lives and wreaking havoc on economies.
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IMF says virus pandemic to unleash worst recession since Great Depression
Apr 09, 2020 13:38The coronavirus pandemic will trigger the worst fallout since the 1930s Great Depression, warns the IMF head.
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Nearly 2,000 US coronavirus deaths for second day in a row
Apr 09, 2020 11:53The United States recorded nearly 2,000 novel coronavirus deaths for a second day in a row, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University as of Wednesday night.
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Central lab in Gaza Strip runs out of supplies to process COVID-19 tests: Ministry warns
Apr 09, 2020 11:47The central laboratory in the besieged Gaza Strip has run out of necessary supplies to process COVID-19 tests, the Palestinian health ministry says, as the densely-populated enclave faces a race against time to contain the fast-growing pandemic.
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Suicide rate in England hit record high in 2019
Apr 09, 2020 09:12New figures show that the rate of suicides in England reached 11.4 deaths per 100,000 people in the last quarter of 2019, marking a 19-year high.
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Syria asks Russia for help to combat COVID-19
Apr 09, 2020 07:45Syria has officially asked for Russia’s assistance to combat the spread of the COVID-19 disease in the West Asian country, which is under rounds of illegal economic sanctions imposed by the United States.
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Experts warn of mental health fallout from mass US unemployment
Apr 09, 2020 05:23The US faces a catastrophic rise in unemployment following the forced shutdown of businesses across the country to stop the spread of COVID-19 — and experts are warning it could trigger a severe mental health crisis.