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| - Duty Editor: James Edgar Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Wear masks, US says, as world toll mounts + China to pause in mourning for virus dead + EPL clubs lobby stars to take 30% pay cut + Soul-blues legend Bill Withers dead at 81 Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States advises all Americans to wear masks in public to protect against the new coronavirus, fearing the illness that has infected more than one million people worldwide may be spreading by normal breathing. 900 words moved by Shaun Tandon with Benjamin Bouly-Rames in Madrid and AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-China-memorial WUHAN China comes to a standstill to mourn patients and medical staff killed by the coronavirus, with the world's most populous country observing a nationwide three-minute silence. 550 words 0230 GMT by Jing Xuan Teng. Photo. Video. Live video fbl-health-virus-ENG-Pr-wages LONDON Premier League clubs will ask players to take a combination of pay cuts and deferrals amounting to 30 percent of their annual salary due to the financial crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the league says. 600 words moved by Kieran Canning US-entertainment-music-BillWithers,WRAP LOS ANGELES Bill Withers, the legendary performer who delivered timeless hits like "Ain't No Sunshine" with silky yet funkified vocals and came to define 1970s soul, has died. He was 81 years old. 700 words moved by Andrew Marszal with Maggy Donaldson in New York. File picture -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US-economy-unemployment-indicator,WRAP WASHINGTON As the US economy craters, crippled by coronavirus shutdowns, businesses jettisoned jobs at an alarming rate last month and the situation will get dramatically worse. 750 words moved by Heather Scott Health-virus-US-smallbusiness-aid,FOCUS NEW YORK After laying off almost all of his workforce across seven stores, Legacy Toys owner Brad Ruoho sees a path to rehiring them only if the new $350 billion US small business lending program performs as promised. 850 words moved by John Biers. File picture Health-virus-US-field-hospitals,FOCUS WASHINGTON Convention centers, sports arenas, and parking lots from Los Angeles to Miami are being urgently converted into makeshift hospitals as authorities brace for a surge in coronavirus patients. 700 words moved by Ivan Couronne. Picture Health-virus-US-masks,SCENE NEW YORK From masks and scarves to bandanas and snoods, New Yorkers at the epicenter of America's coronavirus crisis are increasingly covering their faces -- as the US government urges other citizens to do the same. 450 words 0300 GMT by Peter Hutchinson. Picture. Video. Live video Health-virus-US-politics-Kushner,FOCUS WASHINGTON He's got no medical experience, was never elected or saw military service, but as Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner has crucial access -- and now he's White House pointman for the coronavirus crisis. 650 words moved by Sebastian Smith. File picture Health-virus-Brazil-politics-Mandetta,PROFILE BRASILIA As if leading his country's fight against coronavirus wasn't hard enough, Brazil's health minister has to deal with a boss, President Jair Bolsonaro, who criticizes, undermines and ignores him. 550 words moved by Jordi Miro. File picture Health-virus-politics-US-defense-navy-Roosevelt,lead WASHINGTON US Navy Captain Brett Crozier was cheered by hundreds of sailors as he left the USS Roosevelt docked in Guam after his controversial firing by the Pentagon, videos show. 500 words moved. File picture Health-virus-US-social-touch,FOCUS CHICAGO Six nights a week, Shelley Howard could normally be found at a restaurant or bar in the famous Rush Street area of Chicago, dining out or having a drink with friends. But for the past three weeks, like millions of people around the world, he has been sitting at home to try to avoid the coronavirus pandemic. 750 words 0230 GMT by Bob Chiarito. Picture -- EUROPE -- Britain-politics-Labour LONDON Britain's main opposition Labour party on Saturday unveils a new leader who will take the helm of a defeated and divided party in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. 700 words 0230 GMT by Alice Ritchie. File picture. File video Health-virus-Spain-hotels,FOCUS BARCELONA An ambulance driver wearing a white protective gown enters a Barcelona hotel and announces the arrival of three new "customers" -- a trio of coronavirus patients discharged from hospital into luxury quarantine. 650 words 0200 GMT by Daniel Bosque. Picture. Video Health-virus-IT-rights PARIS In Europe, officials, doctors and engineers are looking at how smartphones could be enlisted in the war against the spread of the new coronavirus. 750 words 0330 GMT by Laurent Barthelemy and Richard Lein Health-virus-France-Africa-media,3rdlead PARIS Two leading French doctors insist they had been misunderstood after sparking a storm of criticism by discussing the idea of testing a vaccine for coronavirus in Africa on television. 800 words moved -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-SAfrica-testing,FOCUS JOHANNESBURG South African public healthcare workers disperse into the buzzing streets of Johannesburg's Yeoville suburb as Africa's worst virus-hit country rolled out mass door-to-door testing for COVID-19. 650 words 0330 GMT by Michelle Gumede Mali-unrest-kidnap,2ndlead BAMAKO Mali's opposition leader Soumaila Cisse is "doing well" a week after his kidnapping, his political movement says, as negotiations were under way with his captors for his release. 350 words moved -- MIDDLE EAST -- Health-virus-Israel-Orthodox-army,lead JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives the green light for soldiers to be deployed in a mostly ultra-Orthodox Jewish city considered the centre of Israel's novel coronavirus outbreak. 650 words moved by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-television-animal-TigerKing,FOCUS WASHINGTON Amid a constant swirl of grim coronavirus news, the surreal tale of a gay, mullet-wearing private zookeeper who calls himself "Joe Exotic" -- now in prison for murder-for-hire -- has captivated a nation stuck on the couch. 700 words 0130 GMT by Paul Handley. Picture afp
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