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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Tel: +1 202 414 0544 -- TOP STORIES -- + 1.7 billion under coronavirus controls + Athletics chief calls for Olympic delay + Markets fall again despite Fed measures + US lawmakers deadlocked over virus rescue + Harvey Weinstein contracts coronavirus Health-virus,WRAP NEW YORK Health officials warn the global coronavirus pandemic is accelerating as the number of confirmed cases around the world soars past 350,000 and goverments impose extraordinary restrictions affecting some 1.7 billion people in an effort to slow the spread. 800 words 2230 GMT by Peter Hutchison with Chris Lefkow in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Oly-2020,WRAP TOKYO World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe calls for the Tokyo Olympics to be postponed over the coronavirus pandemic as Canada pulls out of the Games and Japan's prime minister admits a delay could be "inevitable". 750 words moved by Hiroshi Hiyama and Sara Hussein. Picture Also moved: Health-virus-Oly-2020-Payne-postpone,INTERVIEW Virus-health-Oly-JPN-2020,SCENE Oly-2020-Tokyo,CHRONO Oly-2020-health-virus,QUOTES Oly-2020-Japan-JPN-postponement-health-virus,Q&A Markets-world, WRAP NEW YORK Stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic resume their downward trend in volatile trading as a rollout by the Federal Reserve of another flurry of measures for companies fails to turn the fearful mood around. 600 words 2230 GMT Health-virus-US-politics-economy-Senate,lead WASHINGTON Democrats again block a nearly $2 trillion rescue package for the teetering US economy, highlighting a bitter partisan battle over how to best protect struggling Americans and crippled businesses from the ravages of coronavirus. 550 words 1930 GMT by Michael Mathes. Picture Moved: Health-virus-US-politics-Trump,FOCUS Health-virus-celebrities,FACTS PARIS Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and Spanish tenor Placido Domingo join the growing list of the rich, famous and powerful hit by the coronavirus. 500 words moved Also moved: Health-virus-Europe-measures,FACTS Health-virus-world,FACTS -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US NEW YORK Anxiety ratchets up across New York, the epicenter of America's coronavirus pandemic, with streets eerily quiet at the start of the working week as more US states enforce lockdown measures and officials warn the crisis will worsen. 650 words 2130 GMT by Peter Hutchison. Picture. Video Health-virus-US,PROFILE WASHINGTON Anthony Fauci, the United States' top infectious disease expert, has led the country's response to every major epidemic since the outbreak of AIDS in the 1980s, long striving to ensure the science conveyed to the public is clear and accurate. 550 words moved by Issam Ahmed. File picture US-entertainment-film-books-Allen LOS ANGELES The autobiography of filmmaker Woody Allen was released in the United States Monday, swiftly finding a new home after its original publisher pulled out amid protests over abuse allegations. 450 words moved -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Italy,2ndlead ROME Italy reports a second successive drop in daily deaths and infections from a coronavirus that has claimed more than 6,000 lives in a month. 600 words 1930 GMT by Dmitry Zaks. Picture. Video Health-virus-Britain-deaths PARIS Doctors puzzled at Britain's slow response to the coronavirus pandemic warn that failing to implement stringent social distancing measures could lead to an additional 70,000 deaths from the global killer. 500 words moved by Patrick Galey Health-virus-intelligence,FOCUS PARIS The home confinement of hundreds of millions of people worldwide to brake the coronavirus pandemic has presented intelligence services with a new challenge: monitoring an explosion in internet traffic even as their own capacity is reduced. 650 words moved by Didier Lauras -- MIDEAST AND NORTH AFRICA -- Health-virus-Syria-Idlib BEIRUT Testing for the novel coronavirus is to start within days in northwest Syria, the World Health Organisation says, amid fears of a disaster if the pandemic reaches overcrowded displacement camps. 500 words moved Health-virus-Algeria-politics,FOCUS ALGIERS The coronavirus pandemic has done what the Algerian regime had failed to achieve -- clear the streets of mass anti-government protests. 750 words moved by Amal Belalloufi and Philippe Agret in Tunis -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-Africa,2ndlead JOHANNESBURG South Africa announces a three-week lockdown with soldiers patrolling the streets to ensure compliance as more African countries report coronavirus fatalities and the disease extends to south of the Sahara. 2000 GMT by Susan Njanji. Picture Health-virus-Madagascar,SCENE ANTANANARIVO The fear of hunger propelled vendor Jean Naina Rakotomamonjy to defy a lockdown imposed in Madagascar's capital to curb the spread of coronavirus. 600 words moved by Tsiresena Manjakahery - ASIA - India-health-virus-aviation,3rdlead NEW DELHI India will ground all domestic passenger flights from Wednesday to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, the government says, as more states order lockdowns. 550 words 1930 GMT by Vishal Manve. Picture Also moving: Health-virus-Asia,POINTS-UPDATE Afghanistan-US-Pompeo,WRAP KABUL US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo makes a one-day visit to the Afghan capital to help break a poisonous political deadlock that has further riven the country just as the Taliban are increasing attacks and a rise in coronavirus cases threatens an already-floundering peace process. 600 words moved. Picture Health-virus-HongKong-transport,3ndlead HONG KONG Hong Kong will ban all non-residents from entering the city from midnight on Tuesday in a bid to halt the coronavirus, its leader says, as she unveils plans to stop restaurants and bars serving alcohol. 450 words moved by Su Xinqi. Picture Also moved: Health-virus-HongKong,FOCUS Health-virus-Myanmar,lead YANGON Myanmar confirms its first cases of coronavirus after weeks of increasing scepticism over the under-developed southeast Asian nation's claims to be free of the disease. 500 words 2000 GMT by Richard Sargent. File picture -- ECONOMY -- Health-virus-economy-diplomacy-politics,lead LONDON Rich governments scrambling to defend their own economies against the coronavirus pandemic are urged to coordinate to ward off a long-lasting global recession and future waves of infections from poorer nations. 650 words moved by Jitendra Joshi Also moved: Health-virus-epidemic-finance-rates-politics-economy,POINTS Health-virus-UAE-retail-aviation,FOCUS DUBAI Dubai is closing its famous malls and halting all passenger flights, capping a series of shutdowns on once-thriving sectors that serve as its economic lifeline but which have been sacrificed to curb coronavirus. 700 words moved by Omar Hasan. Picture. Video afp
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