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Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Germany approach 90,000

Sealed seats area is seen at the main train station of Leipzig, eastern Germany, April 4, 2020. (Photo by Kevin Voigt/Xinhua) More than 89,300 COVID-19 cases and at least 1,250 deaths have been reg

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60 Chinese police officers give their lives fighting COVID-19 epidemic

The Ministry of Public Security said 60 police officers and 35 auxiliary police officers had died in the line of duty as of April 2 since the COVID-19 outbreak. The fa

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NYC short on supplies to deal with dead and dying from pandemic

02:40 Temporary morgues are being set up on the streets of New York to cope with the high death toll. More than 23-hundred people have died from Covid-19 in the state. 92-thousand peop

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COVID-19 cases top 1 mln globally: WHO

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Xinhua/Chen Junxia) More than one million confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported to the World Health Organization

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Luckin Coffee shares plummet on accounting probe

Shares of Chinese coffee chain retailer Luckin Coffee plunged more than 75 percent on Thursday after the company formed a special committee to oversee an internal inve

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Russia intensifies measures to contain outbreak

02:34 Across Russia, cities and regions are under lockdown.More than 2,700 cases have been confirmed, and there are fears the number could go even higher with wider testing. Julia Chap

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Coronavirus cases have now climbed above 200,000 in US

01:53 Coronavirus cases have now climbed above 200,000 in the United States, and deaths were up more than 800 over the past 24 hours. CGTN's Nathan King reports from the White House.

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The many difficulties facing Italian doctors

04:19 Italy has the second highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the world, totaling more than 110,574 on April 2, which weights heavily on the shoulders of the local medical w

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Coronavirus deaths in Spain pass 10,000 mark

The number of deaths caused by COVID-19 in Spain surpassed the 10,000 mark on Thursday, the Spanish Ministry for Health, Consumer Affairs and Social Services confirmed. A total of 10,003 people h

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Belarus receives coronavirus rapid tests from China

Belarus has received more than 2,000 rapid coronavirus tests, medical protective suits, infrared thermometers, safety glasses, disposable gloves and shoe covers from China, according to Deputy Hea

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China invests nearly 25 bln yuan in medical assistance

China appropriated 24.5 billion yuan (around 3.45 billion U.S. dollars) in medical assistance subsidies in 2019, including 4 billion yuan allocated for beefing up medic

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Chinese garment exporter steps up medical protective suit production

A major Chinese garment exporter in north China's Hebei Province has been busy meeting an influx of orders for medical protective suits from 10 foreign countries on th

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COVID-19 cases exceed 800,000 Worldwide

The number of COVID-19 cases worldwide has exceeded 800,000, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE). As of 07:00 Eastern Tim

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One million college graduates sign up for online recruiting platform

More than 1.1 million college graduates have registered at an official online recruitment platform, according to the Ministry of Education (MOE). The "24365" platform,

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More than 1,000 sent to fight forest fire in China's Sichuan

Over 1,000 people have been sent to put out a forest fire that broke out in southwest China's Sichuan Province Monday afternoon, local authorities said. The fire start

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COVID-19 death toll rises to 146 as confirmed cases climb to 4,760 in 46 countries: Africa CDC

The death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic on the African continent has reached 146 as confirmed positives cases surpassed 4,760 as of Monday, the Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (

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Pandemic Watch: Trump extends national social distancing guidelines to April 30

The United States has reported more than 140,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases by Sunday. U.S. President Donald Trump says the national social distancing guidelines aimed at slowing the coronavirus spread