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Fearing coronavirus, expectant mothers avoid hospitals in southern Mexico
Juanita Zarate says she has helped deliver hundreds of babies in 45 years working as a midwife in an indigenous community in southern Mexico.
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Spain pledges more economic support as coronavirus epidemic slows
Spain's cabinet approved measures on Tuesday to support workers and businesses struggling under stringent coronavirus restrictions as officials cheered a slowing infection rate.
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Ireland to ban gatherings of more than 5,000 until end of August
Ireland on Tuesday banned large-scale public events until the end of August at the earliest in a bid to rein in the coronavirus outbreak.
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Trump says he will halt immigration, citing pandemic, as Georgia plans partial reopening
President Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus outbreak took on a sharper political tone with his pledge to suspend immigration into the country, while Georgia and other U.S. states began lifting restrictions that stalled their economies.
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U.S. House could vote on Thursday on coronavirus loan bill: Hoyer
More than half the U.S. House of Representatives could return to the capitol on Thursday to pass a coronavirus relief bill that would fund small business loans and hospital aid, chamber's second-most powerful Democrat said on Tuesday, adding he thinks both parties would approve the legislation.
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India presidential palace isolates 500 over virus scare, Pakistan's Khan to be tested
About 500 people entered self-isolation in staff quarters of India's presidential palace on Tuesday, and Pakistan's prime minister was due to be tested, as the coronavirus spreading through South Asia hit the heart of the region's governments.
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We can make more ventilators if government ups order, says UK business consortium
A group of firms, including Airbus and Ford, could build more than the current government order of 20,000 ventilators and continue once normal operations begin to resume, the head of the project told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Swedish health agency says virus has peaked in Stockholm, no easing of restrictions yet
Around one-third of Stockholm's 1 million people will have had the novel coronavirus by the start of May and the disease may have already passed its peak in the capital, Sweden's public health agency said on Tuesday.
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COVID hospitalisations starting to decline in London but not rest of UK
The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 has started to decline in London but not elsewhere in the United Kingdom, England's Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Van-Tam said on Tuesday.
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Turkey's coronavirus death toll rises by 119 to 2,259: ministry
Turkey's confirmed cases of the COVID-19 disease increased by 4,611 in the past 24 hours, and 119 more people have died, taking the death toll to 2,259, Health Ministry data showed on Tuesday.
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Global coronavirus cases pass 2.5 million as U.S. tally nears 800,000
Global coronavirus infections surpassed 2.5 million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, with U.S. cases nearing 800,000.
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Moscow opens coronavirus hospital it built in one month as cases jump
A new Moscow hospital built in just over a month began admitting patients infected with the new coronavirus on Tuesday to help the Russian capital cope with a growing number of cases that have stretched its medical infrastructure.
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FDA authorizes at-home sample collection for LabCorp's COVID-19 test
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized at-home sample collection for LabCorp's COVID-19 diagnostic kit, the agency said on Tuesday, allowing patients to send in their nasal swab samples to the company's labs for diagnosis.
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Speculative bet or inflation hedge? Bitcoin in the coronavirus crisis
Bitcoin has fared better than stocks but worse than gold and U.S. Treasuries during the coronavirus pandemic, with investors ascribing its performance to speculative bets and bids to hedge against inflation linked to stimulus measures.
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Bluetooth phone apps for tracking COVID-19 show modest early results
When Singapore launched the first smartphone app of its kind last month to identify and alert people who had interacted with carriers of the novel coronavirus, the city-state of roughly 5.7 million people had 385 cases of infections.
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UK made a firm decision on Huawei in 5G: foreign ministry's top official
Britain's government made a firm decision to allow China's Huawei to have a role in building the country's 5G phone network and as far as the foreign ministry's top official understands it is not being reopened, he said on Tuesday.
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Explainer: Zoom bombs make choosing video apps harder for lockdown chats
The coronavirus crisis has seen millions locked in their homes turn to videoconferencing apps, bringing with it question marks over security and privacy and a new verb - Zoombombing - the practice of uninvited users crashing into conversations.
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Tech titans dominate U.S. stock market after surge
Investors are once again crowding into a narrow range of technology and internet stocks, heightening concerns that the market's dramatic bounce from last month's lows is becoming increasingly vulnerable to sharp reversals as the coronavirus outbreak continues to batter the economy.
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Swiss coronavirus death toll nears 1,200, positive tests top 28,000
The Swiss death toll from the new coronavirus has reached 1,187, the country's public health agency said on Tuesday, rising from 1,142 people on Monday.
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