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The testing kit is designed to aid UK's health workers to be tested quickly, so they can stay at work or go home if they're a risk to potentially very vulnerable patients.

In New York, the city's convention center is being turned into a temporary hospital. At Mount Sinai Morningside hospital, heart surgeons, cardiologists and cardiovascular nurses now care for coronavirus patients in a converted cardiac unit.

Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen wrote a memo saying prosecutors and investigators could come across cases of “purposeful exposure and infection of others with COVID-19.

Some powerful people in Washington have defied preventative measures aimed at curbing the spread. Their business-as-usual actions are at odds with the restrictions everyday Americans find themselves under and with the government's own messaging.

All the extra hygiene appears to be paying off, at least in some countries, including Japan, where the number of flu cases appears to be sharply down.

In a video conference on forming a joint strategy to fight COVID-19 in the SAARC region, Prime Minister Modi on March 15 proposed the emergency fund with an initial offer of $10 million from India.

Health Minister Olivier Veran said that as far as he knew the man -- who died Saturday -- was the "first hospital doctor to be hit".

In a televised address, Prime Minister Hassan Diab said the number of cases had risen to 230 in the country despite a call almost a week ago for all to remain at home.

Exit visas will no longer be required for employees of ministries, public bodies, oil and gas sector, marine vessels, agriculture, irrigation, and private offices.

As the death toll in Italy due to the coronavirus outbreak overtook China's, the Middle East and Africa are also seeing a worrying number of new cases.

'A wealthy country must not be convinced that it has only to deal with its own citizens,' UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.

Melania Trump, a former fashion model, has avoided the public arena more than many first ladies. Her signature initiative has been a campaign called Be Best, which focuses on the safety and well-being of children.

America's nearly 7,000 jails, prisons and correction facilities are an ideal breeding ground for the virus, as dangerous as nursing homes and cruise ships but far less sanitary.

The move comes after the World Health Organisation warned that the pandemic is a 'defining global health crisis of our time'.

The British government is hoping for 60 per cent of its population to contract the disease and develop immunity against it.

The hands-free gesture opened a debate marked by fear of what one of the debate moderators called a "national emergency" connected with the virus that has killed 65 Americans.