Nearly 421,000 people have been infected across the world.
- The number of cases in Italy, which has more fatalities than any other country, is probably 10 times higher than the official tally, the head of the agency collating the data said.
- Austria will massively expand testing in the coming days to locate and isolate infected people, its chancellor said on Tuesday. - Norway extended its restrictions until April 13. It has confirmed 2,566 virus cases, of whom 12 have died.- The Trump administration sowed confusion over the use of a 1950s-era emergency act to procure coronavirus test kits amid severe shortages of equipment for medical workers.- An emergency aid package for Canadians facing economic harm from the coronavirus outbreak was stalled.
- Mainland China reported a drop in new confirmed coronavirus cases on Wednesday as imported infections fell and no locally transmitted infections were reported. - Turkey imposed restrictions on grocery store opening hours and numbers of shop customers and bus passengers, as its death toll rose to 37.
- The coronavirus pandemic could plunge Japan into deep economic stagnation, the country’s central bankers warned at last week’s emergency monetary policy meeting.
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