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A 15-hour curfew in the city contributed to the shortage of basic raw materials for coffin makers like wood and metal.

It was the highest daily jump in confirmed cases so far, bringing the number of positive cases in the capital to more than 1,000, Japan's NHK public broadcaster reported.

As Canada produces 92 per cent of the world's maple syrup producers said that the ongoing lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus has been a 'catastrophic situation' for them.

"He (Barron) is a good athlete and he loves soccer. And he is like everyone else. I mean everything is shut down. He's in his room he's happy but he's not as happy as he could be, Trump told reporters at the White House.

Taiwan's rapid and transparent response -- with medical officials holding daily briefings on the matter -- has been held up as an example of how democracies can still rein in epidemics.

Older people are particularly affected, as they are highly vulnerable to the coronavirus and often live alone.

The US President's statement on expanding the role of the military in fighting the coronavirus pandemic comes after the number of infections in the New York alone crossed 100,000 and deaths touched 3,000 on Friday.

The total number of people who have died since the start of the pandemic in the United States is now 7,406.

The US' response comes after the Sindh High Court on Thursday found the 46-year-old Sheikh guilty of the lesser charge of kidnapping and commuted his death sentence to seven years in prison.

Myanmar's security forces have been accused of mass rapes, killings and burning thousands of homes of Rohingyas.

Since coming to power in 2016, Suu Kyi has largely communicated through formal statements and public meetings. She rarely gives press conferences or interviews.

Oil futures rocketed over 30% on Thursday after US President Donald Trump tweeted that he expected Russia and Saudi Arabia to end a price war by slashing crude output.

The top US military commander in South Korea, General Robert Abrams, said last month he was "fairly certain" the North had confirmed cases of the virus.

The US now has more than 206,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, by far the highest of any country, according to a Johns Hopkins tally, and over 4,500 deaths.

The WHO, which considers the island part of China, has listed Taiwan's far lower case number under China's. Taipei says this has confused countries and led them to impose the same restrictions on Taiwanese travellers as on Chinese.

Guterres said the world was still very far from where we need to be to effectively fight Covid-19 and to be able to tackle the negative impacts on the global economy and the global societies.