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| - Duty Editor: Anita Chang Beattie Tel: +1 202 351 1256 -- TOP STORIES -- + Europe virus toll surges, Trump mulls NY quarantine + Moody's cuts South Africa's credit ratings to junk + 'Super-spreader' guru puts Indian villages on high alert + Europe mulls finishing virus-hit football season at end of year Health-virus-world,WRAP ROME The coronavirus death toll shoots past 20,000 in Europe, with Italy and Spain each reporting more than 800 dead in one day, as US President Donald Trump says he is considering putting all of hard-hit New York under quarantine. 800 words 2030 GMT by Dmitry Zaks with AFP bureaux. Picture. Video. Graphic SAfrica-economy-rating,WRAP JOHANNESBURG Moody's downgrades South Africa's credit rating to junk status, piling more anguish on an economy already in recession and battered by Africa's worst coronavirus outbreak. 650 words moved by Susan Njanji, with Jurgen Hecker in Paris. File picture Health-virus-India NEW DELHI At least 15,000 people who may have caught the coronavirus from a "super-spreader" guru are under strict quarantine in northern India after the 70-year-old Sikh religious leader died of COVID-19. 400 words moved. Picture Health-virus-Italy-UEFA-fbl-Ita-SerieA,lead ROME Europe's football bosses have not given up hope of finishing this pandemic-hit season -- even if it might have to be done at the start of the next one. 550 words moved by Dmitry Zaks. File picture -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US-NewYork-quarantine,2ndlead WASHINGTON President Donald Trump considers placing a quarantine on New York and nearby states, the most densely populated area of the United States, to stem the spread of the COVID-19 virus. 550 words 2000 GMT by Paul Handley. Picture. Video. US-rights-Lowery,lead WASHINGTON US civil rights leader Reverend Joseph Lowery, who campaigned with Martin Luther King Jr, has died at age 98. 450 words moved. File picture. -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Italy,2ndlead ROME Italy's world-topping coronavirus toll shoots past 10,000 and shows few signs of slowing down despite a 16-day lockdown. 600 words 2100 GMT by Dmitry Zaks. Picture Health-virus-Spain,3rdlead MADRID Spain toughens its nationwide lockdown, halting all non-essential activities as it steps up its fight against the deadly coronavirus epidemic that has so far claimed 5,690 lives. 600 words 1930 GMT by Hazel Ward. Picture. Graphic Health-virus-Britain-toll,3rdlead LONDON The number of coronavirus deaths in Britain jumps by 260 in one day to pass 1,000, official data shows, the day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces he has tested positive. 500 words 2300 GMT by Alice Ritchie. Picture. Video. Health-virus-EU,FOCUS BRUSSELS The European Union has faced and survived a series of existential threats over the years but the coronavirus epidemic has exposed old wounds that could yet prove fatal. 750 words moved by Dave Clark and Francoise Michel. Picture Health-virus-Russia-social-elderly-care-politics,SCENE MOSCOW Standing outside her front door with a leather jacket pulled over her pyjamas, Alma Shayakhmetova takes a bag of groceries and medicines from volunteers who are helping elderly Muscovites ordered to stay at home. 650 words moved by Anna Malpas. Picture. Video Also moved: Health-virus-Russia-retail -- ASIA -- Health-virus-China-Wuhan WUHAN, China Trains packed with thousands of passengers arrive in Wuhan as the Chinese city that was Ground Zero for the global coronavirus pandemic partly reopens after months on lockdown. 650 words moved by Jing Xuan Teng. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-SAfrica JOHANNESBURG South African police fire rubber bullets towards hundreds of shoppers queueing outside a supermarket in Johannesburg as authorities battle to keep people at home in a bid to halt the spread of the coronavirus. 500 words 2000 GMT by Maryke Vermaak. Picture. Video Mali-vote,WRAP BAMAKO Mali's main opposition party calls for "massive participation" in Sunday's parliamentary election, despite its leader being kidnapped and the rising coronavirus threat to the war-torn West African country. 550 words 2200 GMT. Picture Health-virus-Africa,FOCUS BEHENJY, Madagascar No one can remember ever seeing so many people heading out of Madagascar's capital Antananarivo along national highway number 7. In recent days, Madagascans have joined the exodus in their hundreds after the authorities declared a lockdown to try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. 800 words moved by Tsiresena Manjakahery with AFP bureaux in Africa. Picture. Video afp
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