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| - Duty Editor: Jenny Vaughan Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Britain PM in intensive care, global virus deaths soar + Cardinal Pell's paedophilia convictions quashed + China reports no new virus deaths for first time + Privacy please: Hong Kong pandas mate in lockdown Health-virus,WRAP LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson battles the coronavirus in intensive care as death tolls in the United States and Europe reach new heights from the pandemic sweeping the world. 950 words 1530 GMT by Alice Ritchie with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Australia-catholic-crime-assault-court,WRAP LARA, Australia Cardinal George Pell is released from prison, hours after Australia's High Court quashed his conviction for child sex abuse, bringing to an abrupt end the most high-profile paedophilia case faced by the Catholic Church. 750 words moved by William West, with Holly Robertson in Brisbane. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Australia-Catholic-crime-assault-Pell,PROFILE Vatican-religion-Australia-court-Pell,REAX Health-virus-China,WRAP WUHAN, China China reports no new coronavirus deaths for the first time since it started publishing figures in January, just a day before it plans to lift travel curbs from the contagion's epicentre of Wuhan. 600 words moved by Jing Xuan Teng. Picture. Video HongKong-animal-offbeat HONG KONG Stuck at home with no visitors and not much else to do, a pair of pandas in Hong Kong finally decide to give mating a go after a decade of dodging the issue. 400 words moved. Picture -- CORONAVIRUS THREE MONTHS ON -- Health-virus-world-pandemic,FACTS PARIS In the three months since China first came across a new coronavirus, the world has been plunged into turmoil. A pandemic has been declared, schools and shops from New York to New Delhi shuttered, and half the global population confined in some form, while governments have scrambled to announce massive aid packages amid recession fears. 1,300 words moved by Pascale Juilliard Health-virus-patients,FOCUS PARIS A sense of death stalking the hospital ward, fear of dying alone, tearful despair and disarray at home, solitude, anger and the desire to share, or change their life: 12 people from different parts of the world who have survived COVID-19 share emotional and harrowing stories of the pain and fear after catching the virus. 1,800 words moved by AFP bureaus across the world. Picture. Video Also moved: Health-virus,CHRONO Health-virus,Q&A -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Britain-Johnson LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson battles the coronavirus in intensive care, raising serious concerns about his health and the government's response to the still-escalating outbreak. 800 words 1700 GMT by Alice Ritchie and Phil Hazlewood. Picture. Video. Graphic. Live video Also moved: Health-virus-Britain-Johnson,CHRONO Health-virus-Britain-politics-government,Q&A Health-virus-EU-economy,WRAP BRUSSELS EU ministers seek to bridge bitter differences on how to restart the European economy after the coronavirus outbreak, with Germany refusing a call from Italy and Spain for unprecedented solidarity spending to help hard hit countries. 600 words 1600 GMT by Alex Pigman. Video Health-virus-Britain-EU-mortality PARIS Britain could see as many as 66,000 COVID-19 deaths during the first wave of the current pandemic, new research shows, putting the outbreak there on the path to being by far the deadliest in Europe. 500 words moved by Patrick Galey Health-virus-medicines-Europe,FOCUS THE HAGUE While the world waits for a coronavirus vaccine, medicines used to deal with the symptoms of the disease are in critically short supply in Europe, the worst-hit continent. 600 words moved by Sara Magniette and Charlotte Van Ouwerkerk with Julie Charpentrat in Paris and Emmanuelle Michel in Madrid. -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US-politics-vote-Wisconsin,lead MILWAUKEE Americans in Wisconsin cast ballots in a controversial presidential primary held despite a state-wide stay-at-home order and concern that the election could expose thousands of voters and poll workers to the coronavirus. 550 words 1500 GMT by Kamil Krzaczynski. Picture Health-virus-US-race,FOCUS WASHINGTON Black Americans are bearing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic as racial disparities in US public health come to the fore. 600 words 1800 GMT by Issam Ahmed Health-virus-US-deaths,FOCUS NEW YORK Refrigerator trucks parked outside hospital doors, overwhelmed undertakers, and talk about temporary burials in parks: America's coronavirus epicenter of New York is grappling with how to deal with the dead. 550 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. Picture. Video Health-virus-Brazil-Amazon,FOCUS CARAUARI, Brazil Deep in the Amazon rainforest, where rivers are the only highways, the coronavirus pandemic is sharply limiting boat traffic, leaving villages even more cut off from the world than before. 600 words moved by Vitoria Velez. Picture -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-Sahel,FOCUS BAMAKO The rise of coronavirus in the war-torn Sahel has sparked sharp fears for hundreds of thousands of displaced people, often packed inside camps where sanitation is poor. 700 words moved by Amaury Hauchard with Armel Baily in Ouagadougou. File picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Health-virus-Saudi RIYADH The health minister of Saudi Arabia, the oil-rich kingdom in lockdown over the coronavirus, has warned of a huge spike in cases of up to 200,000 within coming weeks, state media reports. 400 words 1600 GMT Health-virus-Iran,lead TEHRAN Iran's parliament convenes for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak forced its doors to close, as the country reported a drop in new infections for a seventh straight day. 540 words moved. Video Health-virus-Palestinians-Israel,FOCUS EIN YABRUD, Palestinian Territories Donning a face mask and orange vest, Palestinian Moayad Samha looks like others manning COVID-19 checkpoints across the world. But he doesn't work for the Palestinian Authority -- he is one of dozens of civilians enforcing coronavirus controls in the West Bank. 700 words 1530 GMT by Hossam Ezzedine. Picture. Video Health-virus-Gulf-prisoners-rights DUBAI Human rights groups have called on the energy-rich Gulf states to release peaceful political activists from jail and scale back detention of migrant workers, to limit the spread of coronavirus. 460 words moved -- ASIA -- Vanuatu-weather-cyclone-health-virus,lead PORT VILA A deadly cyclone destroys much of Vanuatu's second-largest town but early warnings appeared to have prevented mass casualties in the Pacific nation, with some residents sheltered in caves to stay safe, aid workers say. 600 words moved Health-virus-Asia-prison-rights,FOCUS JAKARTA Sleeping shoulder-to-shoulder on the floor of a crumbling, windowless room, prisoners in Indonesia fear an outbreak of the deadly coronavirus inside its walls is a "disaster waiting to happen". 750 words moved. File picture Health-virus-Pakistan-animals-rights KARACHI, Pakistan Abandoned when Pakistan's largest cities went into lockdown, hundreds of caged cats, dogs and rabbits have been found dead inside pet markets hurriedly shuttered as the coronavirus spread. 350 words moved by Ashraf Khan. Video. Picture -- BUSINESS -- Health-virus-US-aviation-transport,FOCUS NEW YORK Their business all but paralyzed by the coronavirus, US airlines are facing an uncertain future and have turned to Washington for financial help, but that might mean giving an equity stake to the federal government. 700 words 1530 GMT by Luc Olinga afp
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