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The country now has 827 cases and 4 fatalities since the outbreak began.

A 49-46 vote left the $2 trillion measure short of the 60 votes needed to advance, as the chamber remained deadlocked for a second day. Only one Democrat, Senator Doug Jones, voted with Republicans to advance the bill.

Since the signing of the deal, the peace process has stalled amid political turmoil in Afghanistan, with the country's leaders squabbling over who was elected president.

Led by a sharp rise in infections in Europe. Italy banned travel within the country, nearly one in three Americans were ordered to stay home.

To ease pressure on hospitals in the Madrid region, soldiers helped move patients to a makeshift field hospital over the weekend set up at a conference centre in the Spanish capital.

Wuhan has the bulk of China’s more than 81,000 virus cases. The first infections were reported there, and it was also the first city to be locked down.

A total of 7,240 people have been hospitalised in France after falling ill with the virus..

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will quarantine herself at home after being treated by a doctor who has since tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

More than 300,000 infections have been confirmed worldwide, with the situation increasingly grim in Italy where the death toll spiked to more than 4,800 -- over a third of the global total.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, India had announced it will not allow any international commercial passenger aircraft to land from March 22 to March 29.

France has released Jalal Ruhollahnejad, an Iranian engineer wanted by US authorities over sanctions charges, state broadcaster IRIB has reported.

The US president continues to paint an unrealistically rosy picture of the outlook, even as doctors and nurses make desperate appeals for help.

The new coronavirus, which is predominantly transmitted by respiratory droplets, was detectable for up to two to three days on plastic and stainless steel, and for up to 24 hours on cardboard.

The Passion of Christ will be re-enacted indoors with a smaller crew and will be transmitted live so people can watch it at home.

Jagdeep Deol failed to pay at least 11 employees the proper prevailing wage from 2014 through 2018 totalling more than $1.5 million and faces up to 15 years in prison.

Eric Ueland, the White House legislative liaison, said congressional action on the next coronavirus stimulus package needed to be fast and unimpeded by the potential price tag.