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| - Duty Editor: Emma Charlton Email: emma.charlton@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + British PM admitted to intensive care + Monster Pacific storm lashes Vanuatu + Scores hit with virus on Australian liner + US white supremacists on foreign terror list + Premier League clubs face virus backlash Health-virus,WRAP LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is admitted to intensive care with worsening coronavirus symptoms, as Europe's worst-hit countries including the UK see record death tolls and the United States registers its 10,000th death. 850 words 2000 GMT by Alice Ritchie with AFP bureaus. Picture. Graphic. Video Also moved: Health-virus-Britain-politics-Johnson,PROFILE Health-virus-Spain,lead Also moving: Health-virus-US Vanuatu-Solomons-weather-cyclone-health-virus,WRAP PORT VILA A deadly Pacific cyclone intensifies as it hits Vanuatu, threatening a natural disaster that experts fear will undermine the impoverished nation's battle to remain coronavirus-free. 600 words moved by Philippe Carillo. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Uruguay-Australia-ship,WRAP MONTEVIDEO An Australian cruise ship off South America faces a growing crisis after more than 80 passengers and crew tested positive for the coronavirus, with six of the most seriously ill being taken to hospitals. 550 words 2000 GMT by Gabriela Vaz. Picture. Video US-Russia-racism-terrorism,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States brands a Russian far-right organization a terrorist group, the first time it has targeted white supremacists with tools regularly used against jihadist groups. 650 words 2000 GMT by Shaun Tandon with Marina Koreneva in Saint Petersburg. File Picture Health-virus-fbl-ENG-Pr,WRAP LONDON Liverpool is forced to apologise as the Premier League club ditches its controversial plan to furlough non-playing staff during the coronavirus, while FIFA urges players and clubs to reach agreement over wage reductions. 700 words 1930 GMT by John Weaver. File picture -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US,FOCUS WASHINGTON Early complacency, testing failures and the lack of a nationwide response allowed the coronavirus to explode in the US, which has by far the highest number of confirmed cases in the world. 850 words moved by Issam Ahmed and Ivan Couronne. Picture Health-virus-US-politics-vote-Wisconsin,WRAP WASHINGTON Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers orders the postponement of Tuesday's Democratic presidential primary and local elections in the midwestern US state, citing the risks to poll workers and voters from the coronavirus. 600 words 1930 GMT by Chris Lefkow. File picture -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Europe-prisons,FOCUS BRUSSELS European governments fear often overcrowded prisons are virus timebombs during this pandemic and are looking at early releases and other ways to reduce the risk for those stuck behind bars. 600 words moved by Marc Burleigh. File Picture Health-virus-France-rich-poor,FOCUS PARIS The lockdown has exposed social divisions in the French capital with many of the rich disappearing to their second homes in the country while the poor are cooped up in their cramped apartments. 700 words moved by Fiachra Gibbons. File picture -- AFRICA -- Mali-conflict-unrest,WRAP BAMAKO At least 20 Malian soldiers are killed in an apparent jihadist raid in the north of the country, the latest attack in the West African country as the government tries to engage militants in talks to end long-running violence. 550 words moved by Serge Daniel Health-virus-DRCongo-Africa,WRAP KINSHASA Kinshasa closes off its upmarket business district for two weeks and begins large-scale disinfection in a bid to root out DR Congo's main suspected source of coronavirus, while Kenya isolates its capital Nairobi from the rest of the country. 800 words 2000 GMT by Bienvenue-Marie Bakumanya and Africa bureaux. Picture Health-virus-Cameroon,FOCUS LIBREVILLE Cameroon's aged president is coming under fire for his conspicuous absence from the national stage as the central African country faces a burgeoning coronavirus crisis. 500 words moved by Camille Malplat Health-virus-Senegal-fish,VIDEOESSAY DAKAR "Maybe one day God will lift this curse," a young Senegalese fishmonger says, referring to the coronavirus, which is slamming the lucrative fish trade in the poor West African state, an industry that employs around 53,000 people directly and over half a million people indirectly. 250 words moved. Pictures by John Wessels. Video by Clement Di Roma -- ASIA -- Health-virus-Japan-emergency,2ndlead TOKYO Japan's prime minister proposes a state of emergency for several major regions seeing a sharp rise in coronavirus cases, as well as a stimulus package worth $1 trillion to cushion the impact on the world's third-biggest economy. 650 words moved by Natsuko Fukue. Picture Also moved: Health-virus-Japan,Q&A Health-virus-India-Dharavi,SCENE MUMBAI Amidst the clogged drains and overflowing garbage dumps of Mumbai's Dharavi -- one of Asia's largest slums -- coronavirus fears are growing, and residents say they are powerless to stop the spread of the disease. 600 words moved by Subhash Sharma and Vishal Manve. Picture. Video Myanmar-health-virus-prisoners-isolation,FOCUS YANGON From meditation to memory games, former political prisoners in Myanmar are dishing out tips on surviving isolation in a pandemic as the country once severed from the world again closes its borders. 600 words moved by Su Myat Mon and Richard Sargent. Video. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Health-virus-Israel-religion-Easter JERUSALEM As Jews in Israel prepare for Passover and the country's Christian minority looks ahead to Easter, they are all locked into an egg-hunt forced by a nationwide shortage. 500 words by Stephen Weizman. Picture. Health-virus-Iran-masks,VIDEOESSAY TEHRAN At a Tehran mosque converted into a factory, women volunteers who would normally attend to visitors to the old battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war have joined the fight against coronavirus. 350 words. Picture. Video -- ENTERTAINMENT -- US-IT-media-television-lifestyle-Quibi-family,FOCUS SAN FRANCISCO The "quick bites" of video from deep-pocketed startup Quibi could become a new entertainment form for on-the-go smartphone users. The question is whether this is the right time. 700 words moved by Glenn Chapman -- SPORT -- Health-virus-golf-GBR-Open LONDON The British Open is cancelled for the first time since World War II due to the coronavirus. 500 words moved. File picture afp
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