U.K. clamps down to fight COVID-19, but confusion still reigns
Confusion rippled through Britain on Tuesday, a day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered a three-week halt to all non-essential activity to fight the spread of the new coronavirus.
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China to lift coronavirus lockdown in most of Hubei province
Chinese authorities say they will end a two-month lockdown of most of coronavirus-hit Hubei province at midnight, as domestic cases of what has become a global pandemic subside.
Narendra Modi orders ‘total lockdown’ of India to combat coronavirus spread
India will begin the world’s largest lockdown, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in a TV address Tuesday night, warning that anyone going outside risked inviting the coronavirus inside their homes, and pledging $2 billion US to bolster the country’s beleaguered health care system.
Bodies of coronavirus victims found in Spanish nursing homes
Spanish army troops disinfecting nursing homes have found, to their horror, some residents living in squalor among the infectious bodies of people suspected of dying from the new coronavirus, authorities said Tuesday.
Anyone leaving New York must self-isolate or risk spreading COVID-19, health officials say
With around half of the country’s infections, New York state is the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S., prompting a special warning from public health authorities Tuesday.