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GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The World Health Organization expressed concern today about the rising number of new coronavirus cases in poor countries, even as many rich nations have begun emerging from lockdown.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – The city of Wuhan, the original epicentre of China’s coronavirus outbreak, conducted 856,128 tests for the disease on Tuesday, the local health authority said today, compared with 467,847 a day earlier.

 (Reuters) – U.S. immunotherapy company Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc today said its experimental vaccine to prevent coronavirus infection was shown to produce protective antibodies and immune system responses in mice and guinea pigs.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s daily death toll from the new coronavirus jumped to a record 1,179 yesterday as President Jair Bolsonaro doubled down on chloroquine as a possible remedy and U.S.

WASHINGTON/OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – The United States, Mexico and Canada said yesterday they would extend a ban on non-essential cross-border travel by another 30 days to help fight the coronavirus.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Chinese hackers are suspected of accessing email and travel details of about nine million easyJet customers, said two sources familiar with the investigation into a cyberattack disclosed by the British airline yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Oil companies may be facing uncertainty as the coronavirus pandemic triggers a collapse in demand for their products, but auto makers are betting the crisis will help accelerate an electric future.

MASERU,  (Reuters) – Lesotho’s Prime Minister Thomas Thabane bowed to pressure to resign today, three months after police named him and his current wife as suspects in the murder of his former wife in a case that has transfixed the southern African nation.

(Reuters) – Moderna Inc’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine, the first to be tested in the United States, produced protective antibodies in a small group of healthy volunteers, according to very early data released by the biotech company yesterday.

SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – El Salvador’s Supreme Court said yesterday it has ordered the immediate suspension of the state of emergency declared due to the coronavirus pandemic by President Nayib Bukele, who has faced criticism of showing authoritarian tendencies and exceeding his powers.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump may have fired State Department Inspector General Steve Linick because he was investigating U.S.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said yesterday an independent review of the global coronavirus response would begin as soon as possible and it received backing and a hefty pledge of funds from China, in the spotlight as the origin of the pandemic.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump, in a surprise announcement, said yesterday he is taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventive medicine against the coronavirus despite medical warnings about the use of the malaria drug.

MANAUS,  (Reuters) – The novel coronavirus is spreading so fast among the indigenous people in the furthest parts of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest that doctors are now evacuating critical COVID-19 patients by plane to the only intensive care units in the vast region.

 (Reuters) – Moderna Inc said today its experimental COVID-19 vaccine produced antibodies that could “neutralize” the new coronavirus in patients in a small early stage clinical trial, sending its shares up 25%.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The most important data for the U.S. economy right now are the “medical metrics” around the coronavirus pandemic, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said last night in broadcast remarks where he outlined the likely need for three to six more months of government financial help for firms and families.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s firing of the State Department’s top internal watchdog “could be unlawful” if it was intended to retaliate against one of his investigations, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his rival Abdullah Abdullah signed a power-sharing deal to end a months-long political stalemate, Ghani’s spokesman said yesterday, a step that could smooth efforts to end the country’s long-running war.

SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – El Salvador’s attorney general yesterday challenged a decree by President Nayib Bukele, who declared a state of emergency the previous evening to extend coronavirus measures without approval by congress.

BBRASILIA, (Reuters) – Wearing a face mask, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro posed for photographs with children plucked out of a crowd of supporters yesterday, disregarding public health advice aimed at containing one of the world’s worst coronavirus outbreaks.