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“It didn’t even occur to me — being shunned,” said Martucci, a real estate investor. “You’re looked at as a contagion, versus as a survivor.”

Fearful of the economic impact, and swayed by the acute hardship suffered by millions of poor families, Prime Minister Imran Khan has defended the lifting of the lockdown last week.

The justifications for face-covering bans — that there is safety in being able to see people’s faces — are now unsettled.

While Ethiopia decided to delay its election this year due to the pandemic, Burundi has pushed forward with the vote at all costs.

The administration has been looking to build up the ability to produce drugs and their raw materials in the United States after the global pandemic exposed the industry's dependence on China and India for its supply chain.

LG Chem said the cause of the fire was likely to be spontaneous ignition of powder at the plant, but the company it is looking into the exact cause.

Britain's unemployment rate could hit 10% in the April-June period, the country's budget forecasters have said.

The WHO now has more than 7,000 employees in its 150 country offices, six regional offices and its Geneva headquarters.

Much of Mexico has run out of beer after factories producing liquor and beer were shut down, along with other non-essential firms.

The government's message has confused and sent out mixed messages to its citizens amid growing dissatisfaction with Johnson's handling of the crisis.

The key provisions of the February 29 agreement - to which the Afghan government was not a party - involved a US commitment to reduce its military footprint in Afghanistan to 8,600 by mid-July.

At the heart of the dispute is Trump's offensive against the World Health Organization, from which he has vowed to cut all US funding.

Researchers have found a simpler, cheaper way to sequence the coronavirus genome, a crucial process that allows researchers access the genetic information in the RNA of the virus.

Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.

A vaccine that protects people from the coronavirus could end the pandemic, but finding one that works and manufacturing enough doses is a huge challenge.

'There's the other changes for things like non-essential retail and people going back to school, particularly primary school, which won't start until the earliest on the first of June, subject to conditions,' Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said.