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WASHINGTON/GENEVA, (Reuters) – The coronavirus pandemic has brought the global economy to a standstill and plunged the world into a recession that will be “way worse” than the global financial crisis a decade ago, the head of the International Monetary Fund said yesterday, calling it “humanity’s darkest hour.”

 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has directed his cabinet to find ways to ease a cash crunch in the drilling industry after oil company executives told him in a Friday meeting it was among their top concerns, according to three sources briefed on the matter.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – New York suffered its deadliest single day from the novel coronavirus, with 562 additional deaths in the last 24 hours for a total of 2,935 fatalities, by far the most of any U.S.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Fujifilm Holdings Corp said it has developed a new, faster test for the novel coronavirus that that causes the COVID-19 disease, reducing the time of results delivery to about two hours.

BEIJING/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Global cases of the new coronavirus have shot past 1 million with more than 53,000 fatalities, a Reuters tally showed today, as death tolls kept soaring in the United States and western Europe while the world economy spiralled disastrously.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French high-school school students will not sit the traditional ‘baccalaureat’ (bac) exam this summer due to the coronavirus, the education minister said on Friday, an unprecedented move that highlights the scale of disruption caused by the pandemic.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration yesterday looked set to join local officials in advising Americans to wear masks when venturing out during the still-exploding coronavirus pandemic, as the U.S.

TOKYO/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Oil prices retreated on Friday after massive gains, while stocks in Asia edged down, as doubts grew over an oil price deal between Saudi Arabia and Russia that U.S.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – The Lima Group regional bloc said yesterday it “appreciated” a new U.S.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canada faces “a critical week” in fighting the coronavirus, a senior official said yesterday, as the death toll jumped and the most populous province said residents should brace for a stark scenario.

LISBON,  (Reuters) – Portugal’s health authorities have ordered French outsourcing firm Teleperformance SE to temporarily shut one of its Lisbon call centers, which remained open after some workers tested positive for coronavirus.

(Reuters) – The coronavirus has been a far deadlier threat in New Orleans than the rest of the United States, with a per-capita death rate much higher than in New York City.

(Trinidad Guardian) The ANSA McAL Group of Companies has recorded a profit before tax (PBT) of TT$1.036 billion for the year ended 2019, up by 2 per cent when compared to previous period’s PBT of TT$1.017 billion.

 (Reuters) – The coronavirus has been a far deadlier threat in New Orleans than the rest of the United States, with a per-capita death rate much higher than in New York City.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to ramp up coronavirus testing after his government faced criticism for being slower than some European peers to roll out mass checks for front-line health workers and the population.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Spain’s death toll from the coronavirus rose above 10,000 today after a record 950 people died overnight, but health officials saw a glimmer of hope with the epidemic slowing in terms of proportional daily increases in infections and deaths.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Four new states imposed sweeping stay-at-home directives yesterday in response to the coronavirus pandemic, putting over 80% of Americans under lockdown as the number of deaths in the United States nearly doubled in three days.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration said yesterday it was deploying more U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Losing your sense of smell and taste may be the best way to tell if you have COVID-19, according to a study of data collected via a symptom tracker app developed by scientists in Britain and the United States to help monitor the coronavirus pandemic.

NEW YORK/ LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – The U.S. government raced yesterday to build hundreds of makeshift hospitals near major cities as healthcare systems were pushed to capacity, and sometimes beyond, by the coronavirus pandemic.