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Colombia's COVID-19 fight

01:47 Colombia​ is attempting to strike a delicate balance in its battle against spread of the coronavirus, with an eye on slowly easing lockdown measures while maintaining one of the

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Africa's confirmed COVID-19 cases top 110,000: Africa CDC

Reuters Image The number of COVID-19 infections in Africa have surpassed 111,000 as the disease continues to spread around the continent.Data from the Africa Center for Disease Control and Pre

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Japan lifts COVID-19 state of emergency completely

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday lifted a state of emergency in the Tokyo metropolitan area and Hokkaido as the spread of the COVID-19 in these areas is no

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Stay safe, carry on

As the COVID-19 pandemic wanes in China, people's life there is gradually going back to normal. We collected footage of how people managed to make their time count during a global pandemic in order t

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Protests over food shortages break out in Chile

01:17 Police and protesters clash amid a city wide lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19.Residents of the El Bosque neighborhood of Santiago, Chile and police clashed during prote

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WHO: COVID-19 virus originates from nature, animal research underway

Dr Peter Embarek, a scientist for Department of Food Safety and Zoonoses of World Health Organization. /CCTV The COVID-19 virus originates from bats in nature and occasionally spread to humans

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Brazil COVID-19 on the brink of exploding, experts say

02:32 Despite a dismal rate of testing, Brazil has the most COVID-19 infections in Latin America and, experts fear, the country may be on the brink of exploding.Especially in the dense

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U.S. Q1 GDP shrinks by 4.8% amid COVID-19 pandemic, worst drop since 2008

The U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 4.8 percent in the first quarter of 2020, marking the worst dive since the fourth quarter of 2008 when the number was re

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U.S. Q1 GDP shrinks by 4.8% amid COVID-19 pandemic

The U.S. gross domestic product(GDP) shrank by 4.8 percent in the first quarter of 2020, marking the worst dive since the fourth quarter of 2008 when the number was recorded at 8.4%.According to the

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"Thank you for taking good care of us," say Africans discharged from quarantine in Guangzhou

"Thank you for taking good care of us," say two Kenyan acrobats discharged from COVID-19 quarantine in Guangzhou, south China. #coronavirusGuangdong Province has demanded all arrivals from overseas un

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WHO: All evidence show coronavirus likely originated in bats

All evidence have indicated that the coronavirus likely originated in bats and was not manipulated or constructed in a lab, said the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday.WHO spokeswoman Fadela

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OneTake: Australia sees slowing spread of COVID-19, strict social-distancing rules still in place

OneTake on Sydney roads: Australia continued to see slowing spread of COVID19 over the past week. People are encouraged to stick to social-distancing and consolidate the gains. Keep faith - after the

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Oil trades at 18-year low on plunging demand amid pandemic: Bloomberg

The oil market continued its slide in Asia, trading at an 18-year low after agreed production reduction by Russia and Saudi Arabia barely made a positive impact on the plunging global demand amid the

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Fighting misinformation globally

02:17 The WHO are facing another growing battle: the spread of coronavirus mis-information. The organization is teaming up with one social media giant to help inform the world with the

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Xi says confident in Russia containing COVID-19

Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke over phone with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Thursday night, saying China believes that under Putin's strong leadership, Russia will certainly stem t

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Japan considers expanding areas covered by emergency declaration

Gion district is quiet in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture on April 15, 2020. /AP The Japanese government is considering expanding the list of prefectures covered by Japan's state of emergency dec

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Bill Gates: World needs WHO 'now more than ever'

No other organization can replace World Health Organization (WHO) in slowing the spread of COVID-19 and the world needs it now more than ever, Microsoft's founder Bill Gates said in a tweet after