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The Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri this evening said that it will be closed until May 1st as part of measures against the coronavirus.

 (Reuters) – The coronavirus pandemic took a personal turn for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday as he disclosed that his brother, CNN television anchor Chris Cuomo, had tested positive for the disease caused by the virus.

The second patient who succumbed to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) this morning has been identified as the Executive Director of Reliance HealthCare, Jermaine Ifill.

The Full Court this morning ruled that the injunctions granted to APNU+AFC candidate Ulita Grace Moore to halt a recount of the votes cast at the March 2 polls and granted by Justice Franklyn Holder are null and void.

Status Hotel on Croal Street in a notice in today’s Stabroek News announced its closure until further notice over the COVID-19 pandemic.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – More equipment is needed to protect the world’s nurses working on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic to save lives, the head of the International Council of Nurses said.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Trump administration today offered to begin lifting Venezuela sanctions if the opposition and members of President Nicolas Maduro’s Socialist Party form an interim government without him, marking a shift in a U.S.

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Social Protection has suspended visitation to the Palms Geriatric Facility on Brickdam and other old people’s homes.

Magistrate Renita Singh this morning discharged the murder charge against Marcus Brian Bisram at the Whim Magistrate’s Court.

 (Reuters) – The coronavirus pandemic and resulting plunge in crude prices will result in a leaner, stronger oil industry but raise the risk of shortages further down the line, Goldman Sachs analysts said today.

WUHAN, China,  (Reuters) – China reported a drop in new coronavirus infections for a fourth day as drastic curbs on international travellers reined in the number of imported cases, while policymakers turned their efforts to healing the world’s second-largest economy.

ATHENS,  (Reuters) – Manolis Glezos, a prominent Greek whose act of defiance against Nazi occupation during World War Two was a rallying cry for the country’s resistance movement, died on Monday, authorities said.

(Trinidad Guardian) Staff at the Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre in St Ann’s have been temporarily laid off with no pay effective April 1 as the closure of borders in light of COVID-19 pandemic has hit the hotel industry.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley put the country on a war-footing against COVID-19 as he delivered a message from his residence hours before the start of new measures to curb the spread of the virus that has already claimed three lives locally.

WASHINGTON/CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – U.S. deaths from coronavirus could reach 200,000 with millions of cases, the government’s top infectious diseases expert warned today as New York, New Orleans and other major cities pleaded for more medical supplies.

Bartica Mayor, Gifford Marshall, yesterday announced that the municipality will be implementing a “Stay Home” Public health advisory as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the nation’s poor for forgiveness today, as the economic and human toll from his 21-day nationwide lockdown deepens and criticism mounts about a lack of adequate planning ahead of the decision.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain has placed an order for 10,000 ventilators to be made by a consortium of companies including Ford, Airbus and Rolls-Royce as part of efforts to fight the coronavirus, an industry source told Reuters.

(Barbados Nation) So far so good! Public Relations Officer of the Royal Barbados Police Force, Acting Inspector Rodney Inniss, said people complied with the 8 p.m.

Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence today announced three more confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).