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PARIS (Reuters) – Paris will close its parks until further notice in order to reduce the risk of coronavirus infections, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said in a statement on Monday. Hidalgo said that there were still lots of...

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow on Monday banned all outdoor events and limited indoor public events to no more than 50 people until April 10, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in a blog post on his personal website, amid the...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Women’s Tennis Association has suspended play until May 2 as the coronavirus pandemic continued its unprecedented shutdown of world sport on Monday. WTA said tournaments in Stuttgart,...

BERLIN (Reuters) – Early closures for restaurants, shutting non-essential shops and a ban on church services are new measures the German government wants to introduce to slow the spread of coronavirus, mass-selling...

By Kirsti Knolle VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s government said it will allocate 2 billion euros for loan guarantees on top of a 4-billion-euro aid fund to buffer the economy from the damage of coronavirus, as the...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said on Monday Chile would close its borders to foreigners beginning on Wednesday to limit the spread of coronavirus in the South American nation. Pinera confirmed...

By Joe Brock SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A dramatic surge in coronavirus infections in Southeast Asia in recent days has increased doubts over a theory that warmer weather could stem the spread of the virus, health experts say....

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Tanzania has confirmed it’s first case of coronavirus, said Gerald Chami, a spokesman at the ministry of health. (Reporting by Omar Mohammed; editing by Jason...

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Beijing will reopen a hospital on March 16 to treat imported coronavirus cases, reported government backed Beijing Daily newspaper on Monday. The Xiaotangshan hospital was previously built in...