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 DEATHS AND INFECTIONS
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EUROPE
* Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out a cautious plan on Monday to
get Britain back to work, including advice on wearing home-made face
coverings.
* Around 136,000 people in England are currently infected with
COVID-19, according to early results from the first large-scale
study in Britain into the spread of the disease.
* Total cases in Germany rose by 933 to 170,508 and the death toll
rose by 116 to 7,533.
* Deaths in France on Monday were almost four times higher than
Sunday and new confirmed cases more than doubled over 24 hours, as
the country started unwinding an almost two-month national lockdown.
* Spain's daily death toll fell on Monday to 123, its lowest level
in seven weeks.
* Italy said it would give regions the power to roll back
restrictions, in a move that is likely to see most remaining curbs
lifted next week.
AMERICAS
* More than 1.35 million people have been infected in the United
States and 80,606 have died, according to a Reuters tally, as of
0503 GMT on Tuesday.
* The White House directed all people entering the West Wing, where
the daily operations of President Donald Trump's administration are
carried out, to wear masks.
* California, Oregon, Washington and other states involved in a
western states pact to coordinate coronavirus response have asked
the federal government for a combined $1 trillion in aid.
* Factory workers began returning to assembly lines in Michigan on
Monday, paving the way to reopen the U.S. auto sector but stoking
fears of a second wave.
* Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds said she would follow a modified
self-quarantine plan in case she was exposed to the new coronavirus
during a visit to the White House last Wednesday or meetings in Iowa
with Vice President Mike Pence on Friday.
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* The chief of the U.S. National Guard tested negative, in his
second negative test since receiving a positive result at a routine
screening.
* Twitter Inc TWTR.N will add labels and warning messages on some
tweets with disputed or misleading information about COVID-19.
* Brazil reported 5,632 new cases and 396 additional deaths,
bringing the national tally at 168,331 and 11,519 deaths. President
Jair Bolsonaro declared gyms and hair salons as essential services
that can stay open.
* Mexico confirmed 1,305 new cases and 108 additional fatalities,
while Chile has surpassed 30,000 cases.
* Panama announced plans to begin a phased reopening of its economy
this week, including e-commerce, mechanical workshops and fishing.
ASIA-PACIFIC
* China reported just one new case for May 11, down from 17 a day
earlier. The total case tally now stands at 82,919 and death toll
remained unchanged at 4,633.
* The Bank of Japan will do "whatever it can" to mitigate the
growing fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, Governor Haruhiko
Kuroda said.
* India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the country would look
to ease its nearly seven-week lockdown.
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
* The International Monetary Fund approved Egypt's request for $2.77
billion in emergency financing.
* Senegal announced the re-opening of mosques and churches and
easing of other restrictions, even as the largest one-day jump in
cases was recorded on Monday.
ECONOMIC FALLOUT
* Asian shares skidded on growing worries about a second wave of
coronavirus infections after the Chinese city where the pandemic
originated reported its first new cases since its lockdown was
lifted.
* China's factory prices fell at the sharpest rate in four years in
April.
(Compiled by Sarah Morland, Vinay Dwivedi and Uttaresh.V; Editing by
Arun Koyyur, Anil D'Silva and Tomasz Janowski)
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