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| - Duty Editor: Joe Boyle Tel: +33 641979813 -- TOP STORIES -- + Virus cases soar in Europe, US + Pandemic 'Ground Zero' reopens + Trump signs $2 trillion virus plan + South Africa credit downgraded to junk + India guru may have infected 15,000 Health-virus,WRAP ROME Europe and the United States face a staggering surge in coronavirus cases, as life begins to resume at the birthplace of the epidemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan. 750 words 1430 GMT by Ella Ide with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-China WUHAN Trains packed with thousands of passengers arrive in Wuhan as the Chinese city that was Ground Zero for the global coronavirus pandemic partly reopened after months on lockdown. 650 words moved by Jing Xuan Teng. Picture. Video. Live video Health-virus-US WASHINGTON President Donald Trump signs into law a $2 trillion rescue plan in a bid to salvage a US economy crippled by coronavirus, on a day the nation sees a record 18,000 new confirmed cases of infection. 700 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture SAfrica-economy-rating,WRAP JOHANNESBURG Moody's downgrades South Africa's credit rating to junk status, piling more anguish on an economy already in recession and battered by Africa's worst coronavirus outbreak. 400 words 1530 GMT Health-virus-India NEW DELHI At least 15,000 people who may have caught the coronavirus from a "super-spreader" guru are under strict quarantine in northern India after the 70-year-old religious leader died of COVID-19. 400 words moved. Picture -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Britain,2ndlead LONDON The number of coronavirus deaths jumps in Britain to more than 1,000, the day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson himself tested positive. 450 words 1700 GMT by Alice Ritchie. File picture. Video. Health-virus-Russia-retail MOSCOW The streets of Moscow are eerily quiet with shops and restaurants shuttered and residents told to stay home as part of new measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus. 300 words 1500 GMT. Picture. Live video. Video Health-virus-EU,FOCUS BRUSSELS The European Union has faced and somehow overcome a series of existential threats in recent years but the coronavirus epidemic has exposed old wounds that could yet prove fatal. 650 words moved by Dave Clark. Picture Health-virus-Russia-social,SCENE MOSCOW Standing outside her front door with a leather jacket over her pyjamas, Alma Shayakhmetova takes a bag of groceries and medicines from volunteers helping elderly Muscovites ordered to stay at home. 650 words moved by Anna Malpas. Picture. Video Health-virus-Italy,lead ROME Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte warns that the European Union could lose its purpose if it fails to come up with a strong response to the coronavirus threat. 550 words 1800 GMT by Dmitry Zaks. Picture -- AFRICA -- Mali-vote BAMAKO Mali's main opposition party calls for "massive participation" in Sunday's parliamentary election, despite its leader being kidnapped and the rising coronavirus threat to the war-torn West African country. 400 words 1500 GMT Health-virus-Africa,FOCUS ANTANANARIVO No one can remember ever seeing so many people heading out of Madagascar's capital Antananarivo along national highway number 7. In recent days, Madagascans have joined the exodus in their hundreds after the authorities declared a lockdown to try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. 800 words moved by Tsiresena Manjakahery. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-Chile-Uruguay,FOCUS SANTIAGO Survivors from two dramatic rescues that captivated the world, the 2010 Chilean mine collapse and the 1972 Andes plane crash, give their advice for how to survive a lockdown as the number of Latin American coronavirus cases soars past 10,000. 650 words moved by Paulina Abramovich with Gabriela Vaz in Montevideo. Picture. Video US-JosephLowery-CivilRights-death,lead WASHINGTON US civil rights leader Reverend Joseph Lowery, who used to campaign with Martin Luther King Jr, has died at age 98. 500 words moved -- ASIA -- Health-virus-India-migration,FOCUS NEW DELHI With India locked down over the coronavirus and no way to earn money, Dilipji Thakor faces a grim choice: either walk home or die hungry. 700 words moved by Bhuvan Bagga. Picture. Video - SPORT -- Health-virus-Italy-UEFA-fbl-Ita-SerieA,lead ROME Europe's football bosses are not ruling out finishing this pandemic-hit season -- even if it might have to be done at the start of the next one. 500 words 1530 GMT by Dmitry Zaks. File picture afp
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