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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + US extends emergency virus measures by one month + North Korea says tested multiple rocket launchers + Virus cruise liner to head to US via Panama Canal + 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 as his top scientists warns up to 200,000 people could die in the United States, with Russians and Nigerians joining one quarter of humanity under lockdown. 750 words 0300 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic NKorea-diplomacy-defence-virus SEOUL Nuclear-armed North Korea successfully tested super-large multiple rocket launchers, state media says. 600 words 0200 GMT 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. 600 words 0230 GMT by Juan-Jose Rodriguez. Picture. 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. 250 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 0330 GMT. 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 0200 GMT 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 0200 GMT 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-Russia-Moscow,2ndlead MOSCOW Moscow's mayor announces strict isolation rules for the city from Monday, the latest in a series of measures introduced in Russia to fight the spread of the coronavirus. 500 words moved by Jonathan Brown. Picture -- 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 0330 GMT 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 0300 GMT 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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