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With PM Johnson ill, coronavirus strikes at heart of British politics 29 Mar 2020 - 06:25 pm
Boris Johnson appears on monitors for COVID-19 meeting in London, Britain March 28, 2020. Andrew Parsons/10 Downing Street/Handout via Reuters
Record virus deaths in Spain as world hunkers down for long haul 29 Mar 2020 - 06:25 pm
Mortuary employees wearing face masks carry the coffin of a COVID-19 coronavirus victim during a burial at the Fuencarral cemetery in Madrid on March 29, 2020. AFP / Baldesca Samper
Italy: 101-year-old influenza survivor beats COVID-19 29 Mar 2020 - 02:52 pm
A picture shows the Colisseum in Rome on March 28, 2020, during the country's lockdown aimed at stopping the spread of the COVID-19 (new coronavirus) pandemic./ AFP / Vincenzo PINTO
Moscow says coronavirus outbreak enters new phase as residents go out to brave risk 29 Mar 2020 - 02:25 pm
Russian President Vladimir Putin wearing protective gear visits a hospital where patients infected with the COVID-19 novel coronavirus are being treated in the settlement of Kommunarka in Moscow on March 24, 2020. / AFP / SPUTNIK / Alexey DRUZHININ
Spain’s coronavirus death toll rises by 838 overnight to 6,528 29 Mar 2020 - 01:04 pm
An ambulance driver wearing a protective face mask and suit takes a break near the emergency unit at 12 de Octubre hospital during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Madrid, Spain March 28, 2020. REUTERS/Sergio Perez
'Merkel is back': virus crisis boosts Germany's centre-right 29 Mar 2020 - 12:45 pm
The empty chair of German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seen as she participates in the weekly cabinet meeting by video conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, on March 23, 2020. AFP / POOL / FABRIZIO BENSCH
UK's Johnson warns on coronavirus: Things to get worse before they get better 29 Mar 2020 - 11:25 am
FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street, as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues. London, Britain, March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah Mckay/File Photo
Europe death toll from coronavirus surges past 20,000 28 Mar 2020 - 05:54 pm
A Bundeswehr handout photo shows staff in protective suits leaving the German air force Airbus A-310
Portugal to treat migrants as residents during coronavirus crisis 28 Mar 2020 - 05:32 pm
A health worker at a drive-thru coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing center in Lisbon, Portugal, March 26, 2020. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante
Russia to close borders starting on March 30 28 Mar 2020 - 05:27 pm
A municipal vehicle disinfects a street on the outskirts of Moscow on March 28, 2020, as the city attempts to curb the spread of the COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. / AFP / Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV
UK coronavirus deaths pass 1,000: official 28 Mar 2020 - 04:52 pm
Staff prepare to load equipment into London Ambulance Service vehicles in the east car park at the ExCeL London exhibition centre in London on March 28, 2020. AFP / Glyn KIRK
Merkel thanks compliant Germans, shutdown to continue until at least April 20 28 Mar 2020 - 02:59 pm
German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes a press statement on the spread of the new coronavirus COVID-19 at the Chancellery in Berlin. / AFP / POOL / Michael Kappeler
France, Italy step up push for crisis tools resisted by Germany 28 Mar 2020 - 02:51 pm
Medical staff install a patient aboard a French medical helicopter NH90 of the 1st RHC near Mercy hospital (CHR Metz), eastern France, to be evacuated to a German hospital in Essen, on March 28, 2020, amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 caused by the novel
Virus infections top 600,000 worldwide, long fight ahead 28 Mar 2020 - 02:15 pm
Jordanian soldiers check a car as they guard a check point in the northern governorate of Irbid, as the city has been isolated and people were banned from entering it, after the number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases have increased in the area, Ir
Italy, Spain suffer record virus deaths as infection rate surges 28 Mar 2020 - 12:16 pm
A man walks his dog in an empty street in Madrid on March 27, 2020 amid a national lockdown to fight the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. AFP / Gabriel Bouys
Italy tops 9,000 coronavirus deaths, overtakes China in cases 27 Mar 2020 - 08:14 pm
Two persons pray close to the Vatican as Pope Francis delivers an extraordinary
British PM Johnson tests positive for coronavirus 27 Mar 2020 - 02:23 pm
FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prime Minister boris Johnson leaves Downing Street, as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues. London, Britain, March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah Mckay/File Photo
Spain's female football referees on frontline of coronavirus fight 26 Mar 2020 - 05:56 pm
A combo of handout pictures made on March 23, 2020 shows Spanish nurse and semi-professional football referee Iragartze Fernandez officiating a match (L), at a hospital desk (C) and at a hospital in Bilbao during the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. AFP / F