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| - Duty Editor: Karl Malakunas Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + China raises Wuhan virus death toll + Trump announces gradual economy reopening + China's economy shrinks for first time in decades + US pandemic job losses hit 22m + Disinfecting robot joins Singapore virus fight Health-virus,WRAP WUHAN, China The Chinese city where the coronavirus first emerged raises its death toll by 50 percent, revealing the ground zero of the global pandemic was much worse hit than Beijing had previously reported. 850 words 0730 GMT by Jing Xuan Teng. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-US-economy-politics,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump announces the gradual reopening of a US economy battered by the brutal side effects of an unprecedented effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus. 700 words moved by Chris Stein and Sebastian Smith. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-US-economy-unemployment-building,WRAP Health-virus-US-NewYork Health-virus-China-economy-growth,WRAP BEIJING China's economy shrinks for the first time in decades because of the coronavirus and drastic measures to contain it. 600 words 0600 GMT by Beiyi Seow. Picture. Health-virus-US-economy-unemployment-building,WRAP WASHINGTON Job losses from the coronavirus pandemic in the United States reach 22 million, government data says, as President Donald Trump vows to unveil plans to re-open the world's largest economy. 700 words moved by Chris Stein Health-virus-Singapore-technology SINGAPORE Singapore researchers have invented a disinfecting robot with an arm that mimics human movement, to help take the load off overworked cleaners during the coronavirus pandemic. 300 words moved. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-economy-recession-IMF-WorldBank,WRAP WASHINGTON The severe economic crisis ignited by the coronavirus pandemic requires the rapid deployment of every available financial lifeline to help countries survive, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says. 600 words moved by Heather Scott. Picture. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-US-smallbusiness-aid-politics,WRAP Health-virus-US-NewYork Health-virus-US-politics-post,FOCUS WASHINGTON For many Americans, checking the mailbox is a daily ritual. But as with many ordinary things as the coronavirus crisis unfolds, the US Postal Service -- already compromised by a mountain of debt -- has a most uncertain future. 750 words moved by Susan Stumme. Picture Entertainment-US-health-virus-paparazzi,FOCUS LOS ANGELES With Hollywood A-listers self-quarantined in their sprawling mansions due to the novel coronavirus, Los Angeles' notorious paparazzi have almost nobody to shoot -- despite soaring demand for celebrity pictures. 650 words moved by Andrew Marszal Also moving: Health-virus-US-Maryland,PHOTOESSAY Health-virus-Canada-government-language-culture-offbeat OTTAWA "Stay the blazes home": the salty call by the premier of Canada's Atlantic coast province of Nova Scotia has become a rallying cry in the coronavirus pandemic fight. 600 words moved by Michel Comte. Picture -- ASIA -- Health-virus-China,WRAP WUHAN, China China's coronavirus ground-zero city of Wuhan abruptly raises its death toll by 50 percent, saying many fatal cases were "mistakenly reported" or missed entirely in an admission that comes amid growing global doubts about Chinese transparency. 500 words 0600 GMT by Jing Xuan Teng. Picture, Health-virus-Bangladesh-textile-economy,FOCUS ASHULIA, Bangladesh One day Parvin was toiling to meet the fast-fashion demands of European capitals, the next she was among hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi clothes workers made instantly jobless as the coronavirus pandemic struck. 700 words moved by Shafiqul Alam. Picture. Video Health-virus-drugs-Avigan,Q&A TOKYO It is approved for use in flu outbreaks and has been deployed to treat Ebola, but now Avigan is being trialled as a potential coronavirus treatment. 700 words 0530 GMT by Sara Hussein Health-virus-Australia,FOCUS COOLANGATTA, Australia A state border that bisects the beachside towns of Coolangatta and Tweed Heads has rarely troubled locals, but under the coronavirus shutdown, the frontier has been closed for the first time since the Spanish Flu pandemic a century ago. 700 words moved. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Germany-politics-Merkel,FOCUS BERLIN Sporting events may be on hold in Germany, but the race to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel is gathering pace as the country makes cautious progress in the fight against the coronavirus. 650 words moved by Mathieu Foulkes and Kit Holden Health-virus-Britain,4thlead LONDON Britain extends its lockdown to tackle the coronavirus for "at least the next three weeks", as it remains among the countries worst-hit by the pandemic with hundreds dying daily from the disease. 550 words moved by Alice Ritchie. Picture. Video Also moved: Health-virus-Russia-military-history-politics,WRAP Virus-health-US-IT-disinformation-Facebook,lead LONDON Facebook says it will start sending tailor-made warnings to users highlighting facts about the coronavirus pandemic, after the world's leading social media platform was accused of tolerating the spread of outlandish conspiracy theories. 650 words moved by Jitendra Joshi -- MIDDLE EAST -- Health-virus-Mideast-prison-politics,FOCUS CAIRO As governments in the Middle East isolate their populations to prevent the spread of coronavirus, attention is turning to the region's jails, where detainees face a more punishing form of lockdown. 750 words 0300 GMT by Farid Farid with AFP bureaus. File Picture Israel-politics,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel's parliament is tasked with forming a government after speaker Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin miss a deadline to seal an alliance, but negotiations between the sides resume. 650 words moved by Ben Simon. File Picture Also moved: Israel-politics-Netanyahu,CHRONO Israel-politics-government,CHRONO -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-Ethiopia-Eritrea-politics-refugees,lead ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia plans to shutter a camp for Eritrean refugees and resettle thousands of its inhabitants in other camps that the UN considers already full, despite concerns this could make them more vulnerable to COVID-19. 600 words moved by Robbie Corey-Boulet Health-virus-Nigeria-rights-killing,2ndlead LAGOS, Nigeria Nigerian security forces have killed 18 people in their enforcement of measures to curb coronavirus, a figure higher than the documented toll inflicted by the disease, the country's human rights body says. 600 words moved -- SPORT -- Box-MMA-THA-health-virus,FOCUS KANCHANABURI, Thailand Training in masks, two metres apart, Thailand's professional fighters are battling a new reality -- shuttered gyms and cancelled money-making tournaments because of the coronavirus pandemic. 600 words moved by Pitcha Dangprasith and Sophie Deviller. 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