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NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Americans must resist the impulse to ease social-separation measures at the first glimpse of progress now being seen in the coronavirus battle, state government and public health leaders warned yesterday, as the U.S.

DUBAI/MOSCOW/LONDON,  (Reuters) – OPEC and its allies led by Russia agreed yesterday to cut their oil output by more than a fifth and said they expected the United States and other producers to join in their effort to prop up prices hammered by the coronavirus crisis.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – An armed group stormed a gold mine in northern Mexico and stole bars of gold and silver alloy before fleeing in a light aircraft, mine operator Minas de Oro Nacional said.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson left intensive care last evening as he continues to recover from COVID-19, but he remains under close observation in hospital, his office said yesterday.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canada’s coronavirus death toll is set to soar from more than 500 currently to as high as 22,000 by the end of the pandemic, health officials said yesterday, while the economy lost a record 1 million jobs last month.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – In the usually bustling streets of the downtown Santiago this week, Chilean great-grandmother Luz Maria Rios was ignoring a coronavirus quarantine and risking her health to sell Easter eggs.

 (Reuters) – For young doctors like 26-year-old Christian Vigil, battling on the frontline against the new coronavirus is a journey back in time to an era they can scarcely imagine.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia today reported a record one-day rise in cases of novel coronavirus, pushing the official tally to more than 10,000, a day after President Vladimir Putin said the coming weeks would prove decisive in the fight against the virus.

SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – China has drawn up new guidelines to reclassify dogs as pets rather than livestock, the agriculture ministry said, part of a response to the coronavirus outbreak that the Humane Society called a potential “game changer” in animal welfare.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – New York state, epicentre of America’s coronavirus crisis, set another single-day record of COVID-19 deaths yesterday, as veteran doctors and nurses voiced astonishment at the speed with which patients were deteriorating and dying.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s health minister said yesterday that the country’s attempts to purchase thousands of ventilators from China to fight the coronavirus epidemic fell through and the government is now looking to Brazilian companies to build the devices.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist whose progressive agenda pushed the Democratic Party sharply to the left, ended his White House campaign yesterday, clearing the way for a Nov.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – A famous Hong Kong snake meat restaurant, She Wong Yee, will shut its doors this month after more than three decades in business, as the coronavirus keeps customers away.

(Reuters) – Novavax Inc said today it had identified a novel coronavirus vaccine candidate and would start human trials in mid-May.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – Sweden’s Foreign Minister Ann Linde today hit back at U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was “clinically stable” in intensive care today and responding to treatment for COVID-19 complications, amid questions about how key coronavirus crisis decisions would be made in his absence.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Even as medical teams struggled to save an onslaught of gravely ill coronavirus patients and deaths hit new highs, the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations seemed to be leveling off in New York state, the U.S.

(Reuters) – The new coronavirus is killing African-Americans at a higher rate than the U.S.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Two pregnant women diagnosed with the new coronavirus in Peru have given birth to babies who have tested negative for the disease, a hospital in the capital Lima said yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was set to spend a second night in intensive care yesterday to help his fight against a coronavirus infection, as his designated deputy said he would pull through because “he’s a fighter”.