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Panama reports 171 new coronavirus cases: health ministry
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama posted 171 new cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday, bringing the country's total to nearly 5,000 infected persons, the health ministry said. Officials also confirmed t...
Apr 22, 2020
Mexico coronavirus cases top 10,000 as sickly economy contracts
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico reported on Wednesday it now has over 10,000 cases of coronavirus, the fifth-highest tally in Latin America, as containment measures and rock-bottom crude prices wreak e...
Apr 22, 2020
SK Hynix posts smaller-than-expected profit fall on strong server demand
SEOUL (Reuters) - SK Hynix , the world's No.2 memory chip maker, posted a 41% fall in quarterly operating profit on Thursday, but beat analysts' estimates as the virus-driven shift to working from hom...
Apr 22, 2020
UK to test prevalence of COVID-19 in general population
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's government plans to test a sample of 20,000 English households for COVID-19 in the coming weeks to try to establish how far the disease has spread across...
Apr 22, 2020
Trump signs executive order suspending immigration
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order temporarily suspending immigration into the United States during the coronavirus outbreak. "This would ensure that ...
Apr 22, 2020
U.S. lawmaker says any COVID-19 contact tracing tech should be voluntary and limited
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Edward Markey, a Democrat and online privacy advocate, said in a letter released Wednesday that any digital coronavirus contact tracing should be voluntary, transparent ...
Apr 22, 2020
Xilinx forecasts current-quarter revenue below estimates
(Reuters) - Xilinx Inc on Wednesday forecast first-quarter revenue below estimates and refrained from providing an annual outlook, citing the uncertainty caused by the coronavirus outbreak. Shares of ...
Apr 22, 2020
Google Stadia gains users after giving free access for two months
(Reuters) - Google's cloud-based game streaming service, Stadia, has witnessed a surge in users after the tech giant gifted two months of free access to its premium version for gamers sheltering at ho...
Apr 22, 2020
Canada police face criticism for poor communication during mass shooting
By Tim Krochak SHUBENACADIE, Nova Scotia (Reuters) - Canadian police are facing mounting criticism for using social media and not a provincial emergency alert system to notify the public that a gunman...
Apr 22, 2020
Special Report: Peruvian coca farmers to Paris pushers, coronavirus upends global narcotics trade
By Gabriel Stargardter and Drazen Jorgic RIO DE JANEIRO/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Countries around the world have spent billions of dollars bailing out businesses affected by the coronavirus outbreak. P...
Apr 22, 2020
