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Quick-hit streaming service Quibi reports 1.7 million downloads in first week
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - About 1.7 million people downloaded the new entertainment streaming app Quibi during its first week on the market, Chief Executive Meg Whitman told CNBC television on Monday. Q...
Apr 13, 2020
Vaccine needed to end social distancing: Irish health minister
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Social distancing rules adopted to slow the spread of coronavirus by keeping people two metres apart will remain largely in place until an effective treatment or vaccine is availabl...
Apr 13, 2020
South Africa coronavirus cases rise to 2,272, deaths at 27
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has recorded 99 new coronavirus cases, taking the total in the country to 2,272, health minister Zweli Mkhike said on Monday. The country has also recorded a furt...
Apr 13, 2020
Quarantine raises mental health, domestic violence risk: Chilean government
By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda and Aislinn Laing SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's health minister on Monday said "prudence and wisdom" was needed when applying coronavirus quarantines since they bring with t...
Apr 13, 2020
U.N. says Saudi deportations of Ethiopian migrants risks spreading coronavirus
By Dawit Endeshaw and Giulia Paravicini ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Monday that deportations of illegal migrant workers by Saudi Arabia to Ethiopia risked spreading the coronavi...
Apr 13, 2020
Amazon to add 75,000 more jobs amid coronavirus pandemic
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said on Monday it plans to hire 75,000 more people for jobs ranging from warehouse staff to delivery drivers as coronavirus epidemic kept Americans locked in their homes. (R...
Apr 13, 2020
EBay appoints former Walmart executive Iannone as CEO
(Reuters) - EBay Inc on Monday appointed former Walmart Inc executive Jamie Iannone as its chief executive officer, effective April 27, sending shares higher. The appointment comes nearly a month afte...
Apr 13, 2020
Dish cuts jobs, re-evaluates business in coronavirus fallout
By Munsif Vengattil (Reuters) - Dish Network Corp has cut staff and is re-evaluating its business to cope better with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. satellite TV provider told Reu...
Apr 13, 2020
Pregnant American reunited with husband after UAE coronavirus quarantine
By Tarek Fahmy ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Hannah O'Reilly, who is six months pregnant, has been reunited with her husband in the United Arab Emirates after first getting stranded in the United States by th...
Apr 13, 2020
Indonesia president says to rapidly expand coronavirus testing
By Tom Allard and Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) - President Joko Widodo said Indonesian will be able to conduct more than 10,000 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests a day for the new coronaviru...
Apr 13, 2020
