Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Monday urged people in Bangkok to wear face masks because of poor air quality in the capital. In a&nbsp;Facebook post, PM Chan-ocha said that "the concentration of tiny dust particles had reached unsafe levels" and that he has ordered government agencies to expedite anti-pollution measures. Cough and eye irritation is a common complaint among Bangkok residents after a&nbsp;layer of toxic smog settled over the city.

Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Monday urged people in Bangkok to wear face masks because of poor air quality in the capital. In a Facebook post, PM Chan-ocha said that "the concentration of tiny dust particles had reached unsafe levels" and that he has ordered government agencies to expedite anti-pollution measures. Cough and eye irritation is a common complaint among Bangkok residents after a layer of toxic smog settled over the city.

Carrie Symonds, fiancee of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said on Saturday she was recovering after a week of suffering from symptoms of COVID-19. Symonds tweeted: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve spent the past week in bed with the main symptoms of Coronavirus,&rdquo; though she had not been tested. Symonds, who is pregnant, is not currently staying with Johnson at the prime minister&rsquo;s Downing Street residence. Johnson tested positive for the virus on March 26 and remains quarantined in Downing Street.

Spain recorded a fall in&nbsp;daily&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;fatalities for the second straight day&nbsp;with 809 people dying on&nbsp;Saturday. A record 950 people died of the infection on Thursday&nbsp;and 932 on Friday. Spain has registered&nbsp;124,736 cases of coronavirus&nbsp;and&nbsp;11,744 deaths -&nbsp;second highest in the world after United States.&nbsp;Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S&aacute;nchez&nbsp;has extended the lockdown in the country till April 25 saying that the curbs are saving lives.

US President Donald Trump on Saturday said that the country was heading into what could be its &ldquo;toughest&rdquo; weeks as coronavirus cases swell nationwide. He warned states not to inflate their needs for critical medical equipment. &ldquo;There will be a lot of death, unfortunately,&rdquo; Trump said in his daily briefing on the pandemic. He added that the goal was to stay several days ahead of critical medical needs in each state, suggesting that states were asking for more medical supplies than they really needed.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States has topped 300,000 and there have been more than 8,100 deaths, Johns Hopkins University reported on Saturday. The Baltimore-based university, which has been keeping a running tally of global coronavirus numbers, said there are at least 300,915 confirmed virus cases in the US and there have been 8,162 deaths.

Prince Charles' office has denied that he recovered from coronavirus after Ayurveda and homeopathy treatment from India. Union Minister of State for Ayush Shripad Naik had claimed that Isaac Mathai, who runs the Soukya Ayurveda Resort in Bengaluru, told him that his treatment of "Prince Charles through ayurveda and homeopathy has been successful". A Clarence House spokesperson on Saturday refuted the claim saying that it's incorrect, adding that the Prince of Wales followed the medical advice of the NHS in the UK and nothing more.

Britain on Saturday reported 708 more deaths from Covid-19 in a new daily high, as the number of confirmed cases rose to nearly 42,000.&nbsp;The health ministry said 4,313 people who tested positive for the virus in hospital had died while there were 41,903 confirmed cases as on Saturday.&nbsp;The toll has been steadily increasing at more than over 500 deaths a day this week and the country is bracing for an expected peak in the next week to 10 days.&nbsp;Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is in self-isolation after developing mild symptoms of the disease, ordered a three-week lockdown of the country on March 23 to try to cut infections.&nbsp;

A group of Chinese mountaineers have begun an expedition on Mount Everest while the site was currently closed to foreign climbers because of the coronavirus pandemic. The highest peak of the world stands on the border of China and Nepal and can be climbed from both sides. China has closed its side to foreign climbers while Nepal has cancelled all expeditions in response to the pandemic.&nbsp;There&nbsp;are&nbsp;more than two dozen Chinese climbers tackling Mount Everest&nbsp;and&nbsp;were expected to reach the advanced base camp at an altitude of 6,450&nbsp;metres&nbsp;soon.&nbsp;

The worst stage of coronavirus pandemic became visible in the US when the Donald Trump government reported that employers cut over 7 lakh jobs in the first two weeks of March -- close to the May 2009 financial crisis peak of 800,000 job losses. Most of the job losses were reported from restaurants and bars, followed by retailers. It was the first decline in payrolls since September 2010, CNBC reported.&nbsp; The unemployment rate rose to 4.4 per cent - from 3.5 per cent -- the first job&nbsp;decline&nbsp;in a decade, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday.

As coronavirus continued to wreak havoc in the US, prime minister Narendra Modi spoke to President Donald Trump&nbsp;and discussed the issues related to the pandemic. Prime Minister Modi said he had an&nbsp;extensive telephone conversation with Trump&nbsp;and&nbsp;had a good discussion. He said the two leaders&nbsp;agreed to deploy the full strength of the India-US partnership to fight&nbsp;Coivd-19.&nbsp;

Knife attack in France amid Covid-19 lockdown, 2 dead

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said it was &lsquo;perfectly possible&rsquo; that the deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic in the country will take place on Easter Sunday, with the potential of around a thousand deaths every 24 hours until then, a media report said.&nbsp;An anonymous source claimed on Thursday that the UK government had projected April 12 to be the worst day for deaths across the country - with 3,611 people already losing their lives to the virus so far, said the Metro newspaper report on Friday.&nbsp;The source also alleged that the government's worst-case scenario sees 50,000 people lose their lives in the coronavirus outbreak.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, men and women in Panama and Peru are no longer allowed to leave their homes on the same day.&nbsp;Both countries started the new regulation to avoid social contacts on Thursday.&nbsp;In Peru, women can leave their homes on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, the remaining days being reserved for men.&nbsp;A general curfew only applies on Sundays.&nbsp;Restrictions do not apply to workers of essential activities, such as bank employees, pharmacies and food markets.&nbsp;Panama has introduced similar regulations based on gender and the last digit of their national ID cards.&nbsp;

As the coronavirus strengthens its grip on the world, harrowing accounts are being shared by young people from across the globe, on how they are battling the pandemic.
18 year old Angel Gona, studies law at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. With her university is closed, and no wifi access to tap into online classes, she worries about falling behind on her studies.
Zoe, a 16-year-old high school student in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is sad that she might not see one of her best friends, who is moving to another country. She's looking for a miracle - but isn't expecting one.
23-year-old Carly Roitz, is a high-risk patient, because she has lupus and, even before coronavirus was a threat, she got sick often. She had plans to marry her fiance in the fall, but worries those plans might have to be shelved for now.
Freddie, a 16 year old high school sophomore, is waiting the lockdown out with his family in Chicago. He says his city, which is usually noisy has been quieter than usual. Freddie feels he's living in a box.
16 year old Michaela from Palo Alto, California is a self-described introvert, she says spending a lot of time indoors had always been her dream. Now she's not so sure.
Sarah Al-Kubaisi, is a 21-year-old dentistry student in Baghdad. She worries about the impact this virus will have on countries with fewer resources and says Iraq, while rich with oil, has limited medical resources for the common man.

The new coronavirus might spread through the air via normal breathing and speaking, a top US scientist said on Friday. Anthony Fauci, head of infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health, told Fox News the guidelines on masks would be changed "because of some recent information that the virus can actually be spread even when people just speak, as opposed to coughing and sneezing." Right now masks are advised to only sick people and those attending to them. Now the US is advising masks to all.

A failure to maintain a six-feet distance between two individuals who are not from the same household will be subject to prosecution and will be punishable by a fine of up to $3500 that's over ₹2.65 lakh. Toronto Mayor John Tory says willful disobedience needs to stop amid coronavirus spread. Authorities feel people in Toronto are not following social distancing norms effectively.

China came to a standstill on Saturday morning to mourn patients and medical staff killed by the coronavirus. The world's most populous country, where the deadly pandemic started, observed a nationwide three-minute silence. People and traffic stopped in the street as air-raid sirens and car horns sounded in memory of the more than 3,300 lives claimed by the virus in China.

The US has set a new global record with 1,480 virus deaths due to coronavirus in 24 hours, according to Johns Hopkins University. The record number of deaths were counted between Thursday and Friday evening. The total number of people who have died in the US is now 7,406.

Following an encounter with a doctor who tested positive for the new coronavirus,&nbsp;German Chancellor Angela Merkel is returning to work at the Chancellery after two weeks in quarantine at home.&nbsp;Merkel's spokesperson said on Friday that she was returning to her office after a 14-day precautionary quarantine.&nbsp;He said that "thankfully the Chancellor tested negative for the coronavirus several times."&nbsp;

As the biggest city in the US is being hit hard by the coronavirus, New York City hospitals are storing the bodies of virus victims in street trailers.&nbsp;Medical personnel wore personal protective equipment to remove a body from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, as hospitals fill up with COVID-19 patients.&nbsp;Bodies are being loaded onto refrigerated morgue trucks by gurney and forklift outside overwhelmed hospitals, in full view of passing motorists.&nbsp;

Asserting that the blame game over the origin of Covid-19 should be aggressively pushed back by the governments across the world, the&nbsp;US has described it wrong to blame religious minorities for the spread of coronavirus.&nbsp;US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback urged religious groups to practice social distancing and sought the release of peaceful religious prisoners across the world, particularly in countries like Iran and China.&nbsp;Responding to a question, Brownback said that the US was tracking the blaming of religious minorities for&nbsp;coronavirus.&nbsp;

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