 | | | | (This May 21 story clarifies that lockdown is entering ninth week, not eighth week) | | | | | | A popular beach town near Lisbon plans to be the first in Portugal to test all of its 200,000 residents for coronavirus antibodies to try and help them enjoy as normal a summer season as possible despite the crisis. | | | | | | The new coronavirus is believed to be spreading throughout Yemen where the health care system "has in effect collapsed", the United Nations said on Friday, appealing for urgent funding. | | | | | | Britain decided to end mass testing and contact tracing of those with or suspected of having COVID-19 in March because a surge in new cases at that time would have been beyond the system's capacity, government advisers said on Friday. | | | | | | The mortality rate in the Netherlands was lower than average last week, the statistics office said, as deaths in the country from the coronavirus decline. | | | | | | Oxford University and AstraZeneca plan to recruit around 10,000 adults and children in Britain for trials of an experimental coronavirus vaccine which on Thursday received U.S. backing worth up to $1.2 billion. | | | | | | Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: | | | | | | Indonesia reported on Friday 634 new cases of coronavirus infection, taking the total in the Southeast Asian nation to 20,796, according to health ministry official Achmad Yurianto. | | | | | | Malaysian health authorities on Friday reported 78 new coronavirus cases, raising the cumulative total to 7,137 cases. | | | | | | The Philippines on Friday recorded 11 additional coronavirus deaths and 163 more infections, the lowest daily increase in cases in nearly two weeks, health ministry said. | | | | | | German authorities said they closed another abattoir after an outbreak of coronavirus among its workers. | | | | | |
