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| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Virus fears in US, hope for Europe + Italy ponders lifting restrictions + Vanuatu braces for monster cyclone + Rooney slams football pay-cut call + Puff justice: fine for lost smoker Health-virus,WRAP LONDON Europe's hardest-hit nations see some tentative signs of hope in the fight against the coronavirus but the United States is bracing for its "Pearl Harbor moment" as the country's death toll races towards 10,000. 750 words 0700 GMT by Phil Hazlewood with Michael Mathes in Washington and AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Italy,lead ROME Italian officials say they may soon consider easing restrictions after seeing the daily coronavirus death toll plunge to the lowest in over two weeks. 650 words moved by Dmitry Zaks. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-Italy-pope Vanuatu-Solomons-weather-cyclone-health-virus,2NDLEAD PORT VILA A powerful cyclone that has already killed 27 people is bearing down on Vanuatu and has intensified into a Category Five super storm, threatening a disaster that could undermine the impoverished Pacific nation's battle to remain coronavirus free. 550 words 0700 GMT by Philippe Carillo. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Fbl-ENG-Pr-wages,WRAP LONDON Wayne Rooney criticises the British government and the Premier League for placing footballers in a "no-win situation" over proposed pay cuts after players were urged to make sacrifices during the coronavirus crisis. 650 words moved by John Weaver. File picture Health-virus-France-Spain-cigarettes-offbeat TOULOUSE, France A man who tried to walk from France to Spain to buy cheap cigarettes was rescued in the Pyrenees mountains -- only to be fined for flouting anti-coronavirus regulations. 200 words moved -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US NEW YORK US governors appeal to the White House for a national strategy against the fast-spreading coronavirus, as deaths surge and health authorities warn the coming week could resemble a "Pearl Harbor moment." 750 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. Picture Health-virus-Argentina-homeless,FOCUS BUENOS AIRES The Argentine government has ordered people to stay at home until mid-April, but thousands have literally nowhere to go -- for them "home" is the street. 700 words moved by Maria Lorente. Picture. Video 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 -- ASIA -- Health-virus-Myanmar-prisoners,FOCUS YANGON Meditation and memory games, former political prisoners in Myanmar are dishing out tips on surviving isolation during a pandemic as a country once severed from the world by a repressive junta again closes its borders. 650 words moved by Su Myat Mon and Richard Sargent. File picture. Video - EUROPE -- Health-virus-Britain LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is taken to hospital after failing to shake off coronavirus symptoms, as Queen Elizabeth II says a united effort will defeat the outbreak. 750 words moved by Phil Hazlewood. File picture. Picture. Video Health-virus-Greece,PROFILE ATHENS A hard-hitting ex-mayor with a penchant for upper body selfies and a soft-spoken health professor are the duo behind Greece's drive to keep the coronavirus cases to manageable numbers. 600 words moved by John Hadoulis. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Health-virus-Libya-conflict TRIPOLI Mahmud Jibril, the former head of the Libyan rebel government that overthrew dictator Moamer Kadhafi in 2011, died of the coronavirus, his party says. 450 words moved. File picture. File video Health-virus-Iran-economy TEHRAN Iran says it will allow "low-risk" economic activities to resume from April 11 as its daily coronavirus infection rates slowed for a fifth straight day. 400 words moved. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-Angola,SCENE LUANDA "How can anyone stay home without anything to eat?" asks motorcycle taxi driver Garcia Landu out on the streets of the Angolan seaside capital of Luanda, openly defying government-imposed restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the deadly coronavirus. 650 words moved by Daniel Garelo Pensador. Picture. Video afp
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