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| - Duty Editor: Karl Malakunas Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Global leaders warn of long virus lockdowns + Virus cruise liner to head to US via Panama Canal + Twitter removes dangerous Bolsonaro virus tweets + Trump says US won't pay Harry and Meghan security + Virtual sports events see virus as a game-changer Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump extends emergency coronavirus restrictions for the United States where his top scientist warns up to 200,000 people could die, as Africa's biggest city goes into lockdown. 750 words 0800 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Panama-ship,WRAP PANAMA CITY A virus-stricken cruise liner is expected to begin moving through the Panama canal en route to the United States with the bodies of four people who died of COVID-19 as well as more than 100 suspected cases on board. 700 words moved by Juan-Jose Rodriguez. Picture. Video Health-virus-Brazil-Bolsonaro-economy,LEAD SAO PAULO Two tweets by Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro in which he questions quarantine measures aimed at containing the novel coronavirus are removed, on the grounds that they violate the social network's rules. 400 words moved. Video Britain-royals-US-Canada-health-virus WASHINGTON President Donald Trump says the United States will not pay security costs for Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, appearing to confirm that the royal couple have moved to live in California. 300 words moved Health-Virus-Esports PARIS With an unprecedented captive audience of three billion people in coronavirus lockdown, virtual sports are wooing fans. 550 words moved. File picture -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US-Trump WASHINGTON President Donald Trump says the peak death rate in the United States from the coronavirus pandemic is likely to hit in two weeks and extends "social distancing" guidelines until April 30. 500 words moved Health-virus-US-economy-unemployment,FOCUS NEW YORK New York food banks have become inundated with newcomers deprived of income since the near-total halt of business in the United States' economic capital. 600 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Hungary-politics,WRAP BUDAPEST Hungary's parliament is expected to endorse a bill giving nationalist premier Viktor Orban sweeping new powers he says he needs to fight the new coronavirus pandemic. 650 words moved Health-virus-Britain,3rdlead LONDON Life in locked-down Britain may not return to normal for six months or longer as it battles the coronavirus outbreak, a top health official warns, as the death toll reached passed 1,200. 600 words moved by Alice Ritchie. Picture. Video Health-virus-Italy,lead ROME Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte's government prepares Italians for a "very long" lockdown that would only be lifted gradually despite its economic hardship and traumatic impact on daily lives. 500 words moved by Dmitry Zaks. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Germany-hospitals,FOCUS BERLIN In the race against the coronavirus, Germany is betting on widespread testing and quarantining to break the infection chain, a strategy borrowed from South Korea whose success in slowing the outbreak has become the envy of the world. 750 words 0630 GMT by Mathieu Foulkes. File picture. File video -- ASIA -- NKorea-diplomacy-defence-virus SEOUL Nuclear-armed North Korea successfully tested super-large multiple rocket launchers, state media says. 600 words moved -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Syria-unrest-prison BEIRUT Prisoners at a Syrian jail run by Kurdish forces holding suspected Islamic State members rioted and some escaped, say Kurdish sources and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. 300 words moved Health-virus-Iraq,FOCUS BAGHDAD For Saad Malik, losing his father to the novel coronavirus was only the beginning of his nightmare. For over a week, cemeteries across Iraq refused to allow the elderly man's burial. 800 words moved by Ammar Karim. Picture Health-virus-Gulf-labour-rights,FOCUS DOHA Millions of migrant workers across the Gulf face uncertainty as host countries lock down, employers withhold wages or mull redundancies, and strict coronavirus containment measures lead to deportations and confinement. 900 words moved by Gregory Walton, with Gulf bureaux and Ashok Dahal in Kathmandu. -- AFRICA -- Mali-vote,WRAP BAMAKO Malians vote in a long-delayed parliamentary election, barely a day after the country recorded its first coronavirus death and with the leading opposition figure kidnapped and believed to be in the hands of jihadists. 750 words moved by Serge Daniel and Kassim Traore. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Nigeria-shutdown,lead ABUJA Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari orders the "cessation of all movements" for two weeks in the largest city Lagos and capital Abuja to stop the spread of coronavirus. 350 words moved afp
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