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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta tests positive for COVID-19

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has tested positive for COVID-19, the club has announced

Italy

COVID-19: Italy doctors 'forced to choose which patients get ICU care'

A nurse in Lombardy tells Euronews that medical staff are being forced to decide who gets crucial treatment and who does not.

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Watch: WHO chief feared a pandemic just five months ago

The director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said the world wasn't ready for a pandemic.

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Euroviews. Trump should be more confident in the US’ Coronavirus response. An EU travel ban won’t help ǀ View

The virus is actually showing a flu-like epidemic pattern with more countries reporting more cases around the world. Based on the pattern observed, the epidemic could be ended if an international organisation steps forward to coordinate a global force to thoroughly implement flu control protocols.

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Coronavirus takes toll on European supply chains and business

In the English midlands — the heartland of the UK car parts industry — the economic impact of the slump triggered by the new coronavirus is already being felt.

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Disinfection work in Seoul after an increase in COVID-19 cases

It comes as the number of COVID-19 cases in South Korea edges near 8,000.

USA

Coronavirus: EU condemns Trump over travel ban from Schengen countries

The European Union has condemned the announcement by Donald Trump of a near ban on travel from 26 Schengen countries over coronavirus, saying it had been imposed "unilaterally and without consultation."

United Kingdom

UK announces ‘largest giveaway budget since 1992’ to battle COVID-19

The UK’s finance minister RishiSunak says the health service will get whatever resources it needs to tackle the coronavirus.

Switzerland

Coronavirus: What is a pandemic?

Clue: It is worse than an epidemic.

Spain

Spain warns elderly to avoid their grandchildren as COVID-19 spreads

Nn a country where only 4% of the population work from home, many working parents rely on grandparents for childcare

World

UK is '2 to 3 weeks' behind Italy, says disease control expert

"The appropriate timing for the introduction of quarantine measures is what will determine how effective they are. If they are introduced too soon they might not be sustained, if they are introduced too late they might not be effective" - Dr. Michael Tildesley.

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Coronavirus panic leaves supermarket looking like 'end of the world'

Panic buying at supermarkets in central Madrid triggered by the spread of coronavirus led to long queues and empty shelves on Tuesday.

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Coronavirus symptoms take five days to appear

A new study found that less than 2.5 percent of COVID-19 cases showed symptoms within 2.2 days while 97.5 percent showed symptoms within 11.5 days.

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Museums closed by the Italian government in anti-virus measures

Popular tourist sites in Italy were shut down on Sunday as the Italian government took drastic measures to stop the coronavirus spread.

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How do scientists create vaccines for new viruses?

Hundreds of scientists around the world have begun to create a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine, which, according to WHO estimates, could take a year and a half to produce.

Italy

Death toll rises in Italian prisons as inmates riot over COVID-19 rule

The riots were triggered by emergency restrictions imposed amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

World

EU pledges €25 billion to offset economic impact of COVID-19

Leaders have pledged to accelerate research into the disease and to support the sectors the hardest hit, such as aviation.

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Coronavirus: Spain declares emergency as France shuts restaurants

Spain and France announce tough new restrictions to control the COVID-19 outbreak as cases jump in Italy.

Italy

Italy coronavirus shutdown: how the emergency measures work

The coronavirus decree announced by PM Giuseppe Conte covers Lombardy and surrounding provinces in northern Italy, imposing major restrictions on around a quarter of the country’s population.

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UN declines to declare coronavirus pandemic

“Unless we’re convinced it’s uncontrollable, why (would) we call it a pandemic?” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said this week.