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Many people in southern France cross the border to buy cigarettes, alcohol, some foodstuffs and fuel, which are cheaper in Spain.

All four of the zoos and the aquarium in New York -- whose virus death toll has topped 4,000 -- have been closed since March 16.

The country's meteorology department said winds gusting to 235 kph are expected to affect Sanma province including the largest island of Espiritu Santo in northern Vanuatu later on Sunday.

The overall confirmed cases in the mainland reached 81,669 on Saturday, including 1,376 patients undergoing treatment and 76,964 others discharged from hospitals after recovery.

The Sindh High Court on Thursday overturned the death sentence of the prime accused and top al-Qaeda leader Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to seven years in jail and acquitted the three others.

About one-third of people with OCD are afflicted by contamination OCD: the new reality of a pandemic that requires acute attention to the transmission of germs creates additional peril for these people.

Gabon authorities banned the sale and eating of bats and pangolins, suspected to be the origin behind the coronavirus pandemic in China, but confirmed the 21 Covid-19 infections in the country did not come from animals.

The test is expected to be the same quick-action test that Trump took on Thursday. He took the Abbott Laboratories test, which provides results in 15 minutes or less.

Asia is facing a second wave of COVID-19 infections and as cases spiral globally with one million confirmed positive and half the planet on lockdown, women are having to give birth in unprecedented circumstances.

There are only two nations remaining where the wild version of the poliovirus continues to spread -- Pakistan and Afghanistan -- but a strain that has mutated from the vaccine itself has also caused outbreaks in several nations in Africa.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday vowed Britain will 'massively increase testing' for coronavirus in the upcoming week as UK recorded over 500 fatalities for a second consecutive day.

Morgues and hospitals in New York City, the epicenter of the US outbreak, bent under the strain on Thursday, struggling to treat or bury casualties.

The European University Hospital Alliance said that without countries cooperating to ensure a steady supply of these drugs, doctors and nurses might no longer be able to provide adequate intensive care.

The daily notes written by Dr Craig Smith, a 71-year-old surgeon, are published on Columbia’s website and circulated on social media.

The Chinese officials have, on international forums like Group of 20, said that their country has made sacrifices in containing the spread of virus and would take these initiatives forward to other countries affected.

The Philippines has recorded 96 coronavirus deaths and 2,311 confirmed cases, all but three in the past three weeks, with infections now being reported in the hundreds every day.