 | | | | Ukraine is dusting off Soviet-era ventilator designs that lay forgotten in a mothballed military factory for years in a bid to ramp up domestic production of equipment that could help in the fight against the coronavirus. | | | | | | Many German companies, particularly in the textiles industry, have switched to producing medical equipment such as protective masks that are needed to help combat the coronavirus epidemic, a German health ministry spokesman said on Monday. | | | | | | President Donald Trump on Sunday extended his stay-at-home guidelines until the end of April, dropping a hotly criticized plan to get the economy up and running by mid-April after a top medical adviser said more than 100,000 Americans could die from the coronavirus outbreak. | | | | | | Countries affected by the novel coronavirus entered another week of strict quarantine measures and several nations introduced new economic stimulus to aid citizens and companies hit by the pandemic. | | | | | | Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: | | | | | | Americans need to press on with efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus to start seeing the rates of infection come down, a top U.S. health official said on Monday after President Donald Trump extended a stay-at-home order through April. | | | | | | Police in western India fired tear gas to disperse a stone-pelting crowd of migrant workers defying a three-week lockdown against the coronavirus that has left hundreds of thousands of poor without jobs and hungry, authorities said on Monday. | | | | | | Coronavirus is spreading too fast for restrictions on public life in Germany, Europe's economic powerhouse, to be lifted yet, a spokesman for the German government said on Monday. | | | | | | South Korea will make emergency cash payments to all but the richest families and draw up a second supplementary budget next month in a bid to ease the drawn-out economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak, President Moon Jae-in said on Monday. | | | | | | DNA testing firm MyHeritage launched a partnership with China's BGI Genomics Co to set up a COVID-19 testing lab in Israel that aims to be fully operational by April 9. | | | | | | Japan has no plan to declare a coronavirus state of emergency from April, its top government spokesman said on Monday, even as pressure mounted on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to take decisive action as cases climb in Tokyo. | | | | | |
