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Brazil’s total number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose above 100,000 on Sunday as President Jair Bolsonaro drew supporters defying social isolation measures.
Greece’s economy will shrink this year by between 4.7 per cent and 8.9 per cent depending on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new projection from the finance ministry.
French rules that will require arrivals from abroad to be quarantined for 14 days after arrival will not apply to travellers from the EU, the Schengen zone (which includes Switzerland) or the UK, the Elysée palace said on Sunday night.
The formation of a new Irish government advanced a step on Sunday as the opposition Greens decided to enter formal coalition talks with prime minister Leo Varadkar and the opposition Fianna Fáil party. Mr Varadkar has led a caretaker government since talks following an inconclusive February 8 election were disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.
New York and its six neighboring states in the northeast of the US are forming a buying consortium to secure billions of dollars worth of coronavirus medical and testing equipment as they prepare to reopen their economies.
Mexico’s consumer ombudsman, who attends President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s daily news conference every Monday, said he had tested positive for coronavirus.
Low-cost airline Norwegian Air Shuttle has reached a last-minute deal with bondholders for a debt-for-equity swap, bringing it one step closer to securing a government rescue package needed to avert financial collapse.
A second round of rescue funding to small US businesses has awarded more than half of its total funding in days as the government seeks to assist the “smallest of small businesses”.
Senior figures in the City of London have urged the government to proceed with caution in easing the lockdown, saying there should be a gradual reopening of the economy.
