Hundreds of millions of people around the world will spend the Easter holiday at home as lockdown measures intensify to combat the coronavirus, a ...
Anthony Fauci, the US government's top pandemic expert, said the United States was"going in the right direction" after a slight drop in the US daily death rate from Wednesday's record toll of 1,973.
In New York, the epicentre of the virus in the United States, the rate of hospital admissions fell on Thursday and state Governor Andrew Cuomo said the actions taken in the state were"flattening the curve", referring to attempts to keep the death rate from spiking.Easter pilgrimage sites across the Middle East, Europe and Asia stood empty on Friday, shorn of the customary Easter holiday hustle.
Lebanese nationals repatriated from Qatar enter quarantine at a hotel in the Lebanese capital Beirut. Even such hallowed traditions as the pope's Easter message are being revamped - Pope Francis will live-stream from the seclusion of his private library."We have to respond to our confinement with all our creativity," said the pontiff."We can either get depressed and alienated ... or we can get creative."The travel industry is one of the hardest-hit sectors but the fallout is shaking every corner of the financial world.
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