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(SciDev.Net) – Remote psychological support services are struggling to manage COVID-19 fear and stress, as experts warn a mental illness pandemic is on its way.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – When the nightclub in which she touted for business in southern Chile was shut down by the authorities as the new coronavirus spread, sex worker Camila Hormazabal was left without access to her sole source of income.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The U.S. government reported more catastrophic economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis yesterday as the pandemic pierced the very walls of the White House and California gave the green light for its factories to restart after a seven-week lockdown.

ACCRA,  (Reuters) – Ghana has directed Eni SpA and Springfield E&P to begin talks to combine their adjacent oil and gas fields, according to a letter seen by Reuters.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose sharply in April, government data showed on Friday, as the coronavirus outbreak keeps many environmental enforcers out of the field and the country prepares to deploy troops to fight illegal logging.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina will keep pushing for talks with creditors even as a deadline for its $65 billion debt restructuring proposal passed yesterday with little sign it had the support needed from international bondholders to unlock a comprehensive deal.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund yesterday said it would back Peru’s request for a two-year $11 billion flexible credit line to be used as precautionary financing, as the copper-rich South American nation seeks to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

LONDON/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Hackers linked to Iran have targeted staff at U.S.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Doctors in hazmat suits ran temperature checks on passengers at Delhi airport and bags were disinfected as the first group of Indians returned home on special flights from Singapore and the Gulf today since a sweeping lockdown was imposed in March.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. economy lost a staggering 20.5 million jobs in April, the steepest plunge in payrolls since the Great Depression and the starkest sign yet of how the novel coronavirus pandemic is battering the world’s biggest economy.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Members of Venezuela’s opposition in October negotiated a $213 million deal with a small Florida security company to invade the country and overthrow President Nicolas Maduro, according to a document published by the Washington Post yesterday.

DETROIT/SACRAMENTO, Calif.,  (Reuters) – Michigan and California, two U.S. manufacturing powerhouses, acted yesterday to allow factories to reopen from coronavirus lockdowns over the next few days, as millions more Americans joined the ranks of workers left jobless by the pandemic.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Black people and men of Bangladeshi and Pakistani origin are nearly twice as likely to die from the COVID-19 disease than whites, even when adjusting data for deprivation, a new British report said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Neiman Marcus Group filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday, marking one of the highest-profile collapses yet among retailers forced to temporarily close stores in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Black people and those of Bangladeshi and Pakistani ethnicity have a significantly higher chance of dying from COVID-19 than white people, even when adjusting for deprivation, the British statistics office said today.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Millions more Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, suggesting layoffs broadened from consumer-facing industries to other segments of the economy and could remain elevated even as many parts of the country start to reopen.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said yesterday his coronavirus task force would shift its primary focus to reviving U.S.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil, one of the world’s emerging coronavirus hot spots, registered a record number of cases and deaths yesterday, prompting the health minister to flag the possibility of strict lockdowns in particularly hard-hit areas.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A genetic study of samples from more than 7,500 people infected with COVID-19 suggests the new coronavirus spread quickly around the world after it emerged in China sometime between October and December last year, scientists said yesterday.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezue-lan state television broadcast yesterday a video of captured American Luke Denman, in which he said he was contracted by a Florida security firm to seize control of Caracas’ airport and bring in a plane to fly President Nicolas Maduro to the United States.