As US reports over 14,600 deaths, here's what else is happening with Covid-19: 🇻🇪 UN delivers coronavirus aid to Venezuela 🇾🇪 Saudi coalition declares Covid-19 ceasefire in Yemen 🇺🇸 US pharmacies authorised to test for virus Stay updated here:
Officials wearing protective gear gather before meeting passengers, who arrived at Sheremetyevo International Airport on a flight from New York amid the coronavirus pandemic, in a terminal building near Moscow, Russia April 8, 2020. Real Madrid’s players and coaches have agreed to voluntarily reduce their salaries by at least 10% to help offset lost revenue caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Spanish league has estimated that clubs will lose a combined $1.1 billion if the competition can’t resume because of the pandemic.US Vice President Mike Pence says Philadelphia is emerging as a potential hotspot for the coronavirus and urged its residents to heed social distancing guidelines. New York City propelled that figure with more than 800 deaths in a single day, with more confirmed cases of the infection there than Italy. A plane carrying 90 tons of UN health, water and sanitation aid arrived in Venezuela on Wednesday to help the cash-strapped country fight the coronavirus pandemic.
Venezuela, suffering from a crippling economic crisis that has led to shortages of basic food and medicine and forced some five million people to flee the country, has 167 confirmed cases of coronavirus and nine deaths.The US authorised pharmacies to carry out tests for the coronavirus, including newly developed antibody tests that detect whether a person who has recovered from illness had Covid-19.
There are different kinds of antibody tests and they can't yet tell whether a person has sufficient antibodies to be protected against future infection.The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen announced Wednesday that its forces would begin a ceasefire starting Thursday at 0000 GMT, a step that could pave the way for the first direct peace talks between the two sides that have been at war for more than five years.
There was no immediate reaction from Houthi leaders or Yemen's internationally recognised government to the coalition's statement.Lockdown measures in China must be lifted gradually in order to prevent a "second wave" of Covid-19 infections, scientists warned Thursday as thousands in the outbreak city of Wuhan were finally allowed to travel.
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