LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York state, Illinois and Connecticut yesterday followed California in directing tens of millions of people to stay at home in the most sweeping U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Two Republican senators defended themselves yesterday against heavy criticism, including calls that they resign, for selling substantial amounts of stocks before the coronavirus-induced market meltdown and after closed-door briefings on the outbreak.
JOHANNESBURG/MILAN, (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil is likely to delay the greenlighting of its $30 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique as the coronavirus disrupts early works and a depressed gas market makes investors wary, six sources told Reuters.
(Reuters) – Curacao state-owned oil refinery Refineria di Korsou (RdK) yesterday seized an oil storage terminal on the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire over a payment dispute with Venezuela’s state-run PDVSA oil firm, a RdK official said.
(Reuters) – Panama’s Copa Airlines yesterday said it will suspend all operations from March 22 until April 21, making it the first Latin American carrier to take such a drastic measure in order to weather the coronavirus crisis.
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil declared a state of emergency today, freeing up funds for the federal government to fight a coronavirus crisis that has hurt the popularity of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s government.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told cafes, pubs and restaurants across the country to close tonight and to stay shut indefinitely to help slow the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.
MUMBAI/CHENNAI, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – People suspected of having the coronavirus in India have received hand stamps and are being tracked using their mobile phones and personal data to help enforce quarantines, raising concerns about privacy and mass surveillance.
LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – California issued an unprecedented statewide ‘stay at home” order yesterday for its 40 million residents and Washington warned Americans to return home or stay abroad indefinitely, as the number of coronavirus deaths in the country hit 200.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Confirmed coronavirus cases in Brazil surged past 600 yesterday, more than doubling in two days, as a diplomatic spat over the disease’s origins between President Jair Bolsonaro’s son and the Chinese ambassador threatened relations with Brazil’s top trading partner.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s government yesterday declared a state of emergency over the coronavirus outbreak, closing the borders of the Americas’ poorest nation and imposing a curfew after authorities detected the first two cases of infection.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. oil prices rose 20% today, recouping some losses from a sell-off that drove prices to near 20-year lows, but analysts saw the rebound as a brief reprieve, anticipating more weakness as the coronavirus outbreak takes its toll on global demand.
RENTON, Washington, (Reuters) – Doctors in Seattle have been reduced to making their own face masks out of sheets of plastic, after a global shortage of medical protective gear has hit Washington state, an epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Indian healthcare professionals are questioning claims by popular yoga guru and entrepreneur Baba Ramdev who said he has found an ayurvedic remedy that would help ward off coronavirus.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The United States and Canada closed their shared border to “non-essential traffic” yesterday to curb transmission of the coronavirus as U.S.
RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The coronavirus outbreak hammered Brazil yesterday, crushing local markets, infecting more members of the country’s political elite and prompting loud protests against President Jair Bolsonaro, whose son waded into a diplomatic spat with China.
MARACAIBO, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Some gasoline stations in Venezuela were unusually empty yesterday, as regional authorities banned queuing for gasoline as part of a nationwide quarantine to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States is suspending all routine visa services as of yesterday in most countries worldwide due to the coronavirus outbreak, a spokeswoman for the State Department said, an unprecedented move that will potentially impact hundreds of thousands of people.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The U.S. government canceled all deportation hearings for immigrants not in detention after immigration judges and government prosecutors complained busy courts were putting them at risk of COVID-19 infection.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Roadblocks across Venezuela snarled the transportation of goods yesterday and businesses in the capital Caracas reported that food deliveries failed to arrive, in signs that a national coronavirus quarantine could worsen a humanitarian crisis.
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