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Pakistani doctors urge government to reimpose mosque restrictions
By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Leading Pakistani doctors on Wednesday urged the government and clerics to reverse a decision to allow prayer congregations at mosques during the Musl...
Apr 22, 2020
WHO says it hopes U.S. will reconsider funding, but focus is on ending pandemic
GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that he hoped the Trump administration would reconsider its suspension of funding, but that his main focus was on e...
Apr 22, 2020
WHO chief says ‘virus will be with us for a long time’
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that there were "worrying upward trends" in early epidemics in parts of Africa and central and South America, while also warnin...
Apr 22, 2020
Israel suspends cellphone-tracking for coronavirus quarantine enforcement
By Dan Williams and Ari Rabinovitch JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli parliamentary oversight committee on Wednesday suspended police use of cellphone data to enforce coronavirus quarantines, with one ...
Apr 22, 2020
Flaw in iPhone, iPads may have allowed hackers to steal data for years
By Christopher Bing and Joseph Menn WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc is planning to fix a flaw that a security firm said may have left more than half a billion iPhones vulnerable to hack...
Apr 22, 2020
European tourism scrambles to salvage summer as lockdowns ease
By Sergio Goncalves, Lefteris Papadimas and Renee Maltezou LISBON/ATHENS (Reuters) - There are no tourists at Vila Gale's resorts right now, and the home page of the company's website urges visitors t...
Apr 22, 2020
Few ventilators, little cash: Sudan braces for coronavirus test
By Nafisa Eltahir, Khalid Abdelaziz and Eltayeb Siddig DUBAI/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - With just a few hundred ventilators and international aid slow to materialise, Sudan's fledgling government knows it h...
Apr 22, 2020
Swiss maintain 5G emission standards amid safety concerns
ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss government will keep current safety standards for fifth-generation (5G) mobile frequency emissions, it said on Wednesday, settling a debate that has delayed the rollout of...
Apr 22, 2020
UK confident of hitting 100,000 COVID-19 daily tests target, Raab says
LONDON (Reuters) - British foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Wednesday the government was confident it would meet its target of carrying out 100,000 tests a day for the coronavirus by the end of t...
Apr 22, 2020
Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba, JD offer bookings for COVID-19 tests
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and JD have each launched booking services for COVID-19 tests, the companies announced. The services have been launched as Chin...
Apr 22, 2020
