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Indian power grid operators scramble to prepare for Modi's 'lights off' plan 04 Apr 2020 - 03:24 pm
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Indonesia reports highest daily rise in COVID-19 cases 03 Apr 2020 - 03:51 pm
Roads are seen unusually quite in Jakarta on April 2, 2020, 24 days after Jakarta's authority held working from home and online schooling amid concern of the Covid-19 coronavirus. / AFP / BAY ISMOYO
India’s Modi urges citizens light candles during virus crisis 03 Apr 2020 - 12:55 pm
A police officer wearing a helmet and holding shields depicting coronavirus walks in a market area to advice people to maintain safe distance during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Chennai, India, Ap
China to hold national mourning for coronavirus victims 03 Apr 2020 - 12:44 pm
Workers wearing protective suits as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus take the temperature of people arriving at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing on April 3, 2020. / AFP / GREG BAKER
Mosques stay open in Pakistan even as virus death toll rises 03 Apr 2020 - 12:07 pm
LAHORE, PAKISTAN - APRIL 02: A general view of empty Badshahi Mosque closed amid concerns over the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) in Lahore, Pakistan, April 02, 2020. ( Rana Irfan Ali - Anadolu Agency )
Singapore closing workplaces, schools in latest coronavirus measures 03 Apr 2020 - 11:45 am
Tape to mark off spaces for social distancing are seen on the floor of a restaurant in Marina Bay in Singapore on April 2, 2020, as the government slowly tightens restrictions to combat the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus. / AFP / Roslan RAHMAN
Customers desert South Korea's animal cafes over virus fears 03 Apr 2020 - 11:27 am
In a photo taken on March 31, 2020 customers play with a cat at the Eden Meerkat Friends animal cafe in Seoul. Business has been devastated by the coronavirus outbreak, with South Koreans staying at home under social distancing guidelines, and tourism dis
India PM plans staggered exit from vast coronavirus lockdown 02 Apr 2020 - 04:12 pm
A Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel stands guard inside the empty premises of the historic Taj Mahal during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Agra, India, April 2, 2020. Reuters/S
Indonesia virus death toll rises to highest in Asia outside China 02 Apr 2020 - 01:48 pm
A customer wearing protective face mask makes his transaction through a plastic barrier as a preventive measure against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 2, 2020. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana
Coronavirus death toll moves up to 31 in Pakistan 02 Apr 2020 - 12:44 pm
Residents wearing facemasks walk through a disinfecting tunnel at a vegetable and fruit market during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Islamabad on April 1, 2020. / AFP / Aamir QURESHI
Taiwan plans to donate 10 million face masks 02 Apr 2020 - 12:35 pm
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Indian farmers feed strawberries to cattle as lockdown hits transport 02 Apr 2020 - 12:16 pm
Anil Salunkhe, a farmer, feeds strawberries to his cow during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Darewadi village in Satara district in the western state of Maharashtra, India, April 1, 2020. Reuters/R
Toaster-sized ventilator from India helps hospitals in virus fight 02 Apr 2020 - 11:36 am
In this photo taken on March 25, 2020, AgVa Healthcare employee Vaibhav Gupta demonstrates using a ventilator at the research and development (R&D) centre in Noida in Uttar Pradesh state. AFP / Prakash Singh
Pakistan court commutes death sentence of key accused in Pearl killing, acquits three 02 Apr 2020 - 11:30 am
Khawja Naveed, defence lawyer of Omar Sheikh, who was convicted to death sentence over the killing of US journalist Daniel Pearl, speaks to media representatives after a court verdict in Karachi on April 2, 2020. AFP / Asif Hassan
Two masks, no lockdown: Japan PM's latest coronavirus move riles social media 02 Apr 2020 - 10:48 am
File photo: Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, wearing a protective face mask, gestures next to Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso during an upper house parliamentary session, following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Tokyo, Japan Apr
WHO expects Malaysia's coronavirus cases to peak in mid-April 02 Apr 2020 - 09:37 am
Workers wearing protective suits pray before a disinfection operation, during the movement control order due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia April 1, 2020. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng
Chinese county back under lockdown after coronavirus cases re-emerge 02 Apr 2020 - 09:27 am
Delivery men wwearing a wearing a facemask as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus wait for mobile orders along a street in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province on April 1, 2020. / AFP / NOEL CELIS
Australia begins pre-clinical testing for coronavirus vaccine 02 Apr 2020 - 09:07 am
People walk by an area of the city following the implementation of stricter social-distancing and self-isolation rules to limit the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Sydney, Australia, March 31, 2020. REUTERS/Loren Elliott

Europe

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Africa

A medical worker puts on protective suits before the burial of an Ebola victim in Mongbwalu, Ituri province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), May 24, 2026. Photo for representational purposes only. (Str/Xinhua) Ethiopia intensifies coordinated Ebola preparedness, inspection measures
Members of the Ugandan dance group 'the Ghetto Kids' rehearse at their home in Nakawuka, Wakiso, Uganda, on May 25, 2026. (Photo by Badru Katumba / AFP) Uganda Ghetto Kids 'can't wait' to join Shakira at World Cup
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A woman (top R) reacts as a person suspected of having died from Ebola is buried in Bunia, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on May 25, 2026. (Photo by Glody MURHABAZI / AFP) WHO urges DRC's neighbours to act immediately on Ebola

Americas

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Handout photo released by Mexico's Presidency press office shows Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum during her daily press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City on May 25, 2026. (Photo by Saul lopez Escorcia / Presidencia de Mexico / AFP) Mexico says will host Iran during World Cup
Orange County sheriff deputies block Western Avenue at Katella Avenue as roads remain closed after a chemical leak from a large storage tank prompted evacuations in Garden Grove, California, on May 24, 2026. Photo by Blake Fagan / AFP California chemical leak explosion threat 'eliminated,' fire officials say
Orange County sheriff deputies block Western Avenue at Katella Avenue as roads remain closed after a chemical leak in Garden Grove, California, on May 24, 2026. (Photo by Blake Fagan / AFP) Crack found in California toxic chemical tank could relieve pressure

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