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According to a report published by Sensor Tower, mobile data usage for mobile app downloads surged 52% due to coronavirus as there is a sharp rise in consumer adoption of mobile apps, data reveals. The amount of data used for first-time installs of the top 250 mobile apps worldwide in Q1 2020 was up 52 percent to 596 petabytes from the three-year average of 391 petabytes for the first quarter

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Brazilian Health Ministry reported 19,951 new coronavirus cases in less than 24 hours as the total number of cases in the country reached 291,579. The country is now third with the most number of coronavirus cases. This new surge tops the previous record set Tuesday. Reported deaths caused by coronavirus also increased by 888 on Wednesday, bringing to the country's total to 18,859 deaths, the ministry said

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The Chinese government has accused US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of "blackmailing" the Hong Kong government with the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. Chinese remarks came after Pompeo said on Wednesday the recent treatment of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong made it harder to assess whether the territory remains highly autonomous from China, a requirement for the special treatment afforded to the city under American law

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According to a report published by The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Coronavirus pandemic had a significant impact on the society as human development set to fall for the first time on record this year. “For vast swathes of the globe, the pandemic will leave deep, deep scars,” Achim Steiner, the UNDP’s administrator, said in the report

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Director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom-Ghebreyesus reported the biggest one-day jump in global coronavirus cases since the outbreak after 106,000 cases were reported in less than 24 hours. “We still have a long way to go in this pandemic,” Tedros said at a briefing in Geneva. “In the last 24 hours, there have been 106,000 cases. Almost two-thirds of these cases were reported in just four countries.”

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Kolkata, an eastern Indian city near the Bay of Bengal has been devastated by the powerful cyclone Amphan. Cyclone Amphan made landfall in eastern India and Bangladesh on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people as it lashed coastal areas with ferocious wind and rain. Many of Kolkata's 14 million people are without electricity and communications have been disrupted

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A man in Singapore has been sentenced to death via a zoom video call as the country remained under lockdown. Punithan Genasan, 37, received the sentence on Friday for his role in a drug deal that took place in 2011. Human rights groups argued that pursuing the death penalty at a time when the world is being gripped by a pandemic was "abhorrent".

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Global coronavirus cases jumped above 5 million as the death toll in the US crossed 90,000. America is reopening, and all 50 states have started easing coronavirus-related restrictions, even though many of them do not meet federal benchmarks, leading public health experts to warn that a new surge of infections could be imminent. White House officials continued to defend the push to reopen and optimistically predicted a swift economic recovery

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US President Donald Trump is considering a travel ban on Brazil after the Latin American country suffered its deadliest day so far. “We are considering it. We hope that we are not going to have a problem,” Trump told reporters at the White House late Tuesday. “I don’t want people coming over here and infecting our people. I don’t want people over there sick either” Trump added

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Prime Minister of Nepal, KP Sharma Oli criticized India over the coronavirus outbreak in the country. "Those who are coming from India through illegal channels are spreading the virus in the country and some local representatives and party leaders are responsible for bringing in people from India without proper testing," Mr. Oli said

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Turkish central bank announced on Wednesday that it has tripled its currency swap agreement with Qatar, securing much-needed funding as the country facing a widening fiscal deficit and potential full-year recession. The move amended the original limit of $5 billion on the two countries’ initial swap agreement in 2018, raising it to $15 billion. The Turkish lira dropped to the lowest level on record against USD earlier this month

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Tao Lin, vice president of Tesla China said that Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory is expected to produce 4,000 electric vehicles per week by next month in an effort to exceed the production capacity. 4,000 units per week would result in Tesla producing roughly 200,000 electric cars per year at the plant. The Tesla executive also shed some light on the planned timeline to bring the Model Y to China

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Croatian Football Manager Robert Prosinecki said that Lionel Messi plays "different football to the others" and outranks Diego Maradona, Brazilian great Ronaldo, and even US basketball superstar Michael Jordan in the sporting pantheon. According to Prosinecki's verdict, Messi and Brazilian Ronaldo are players that have shown themselves capable and willing to take on teams single-handedly

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American executive Kevin Mayer is leaving Disney to lead a different but interesting entertainment company TikTok. TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, announced on Monday that Mayer will become chief executive officer of the incredibly popular video app and also take on the role of the chief operating officer at ByteDance

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Hollywood star Tom Cruise was set to film Mission: Impossible VII in Italy this year before the coronavirus pandemic hit. Tom Cruise is reportedly living in a "luxury wing of the Church of Scientology headquarters in the countryside of Saint Hill, East Grinstead, West Sussex," the Daily Mail reported in May 2020. Cruise's ritzy pad supposedly has a ton of perks including an "all-glass restaurant run by a Michelin-starred chef

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Two of the leading international airlines, Emirates and Qatar airways are planning to layoff around 40,000 employees. Emirates Airlines, whose hub Dubai served the most international travelers of any airport in 2019, is reportedly preparing to lay off 30,000 employees, Bloomberg said. Qatar Airways, in rival Doha, is meanwhile prepping to let go approximately 9,000 members of its workforce

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According to the data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, global coronavirus cases reached 4.98 million. More than 324,000 people have died so far from COVID-19. The US tops the list with more than 1.57 million cases, Russia came at the second spot with nearly 300,000 cases. Brazil recorded its largest single-day jump in coronavirus cases and deaths on Tuesday, the country added 17,408 cases in less than 24 hours

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Indian migrant worker's crisis is getting worse by the time, after a lockdown in the country of more than 1.3 billion people, millions of migrant workers found themselves without income and jobs on March 24. So with the looming fear of hunger, men, women, and children are forced to begin arduous journeys back to their villages, cycling or hitching rides on tuk-tuks, lorries, water tankers, and milk vans

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According to a research published by the National Institute of Health, coronavirus particles released by talking can remain in the air for 8 to 14 minutes, a warning sign that airborne transmission may be even more widespread than previously thought. While coughing and sneezing can transmit respiratory viruses through droplets, it’s less known that just regular talking produces thousands of oral fluid droplets, the scientists behind the study said

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Budget airline EasyJet announced on Tuesday that it has suffered a major cyberattack from a “highly sophisticated” source. The hack left 9 million customers details’ exposed. EasyJet CEO Johan Lundgren said in a statement that the company takes the cybersecurity of its systems seriously, “however, this is an evolving threat as cyber attackers get ever more sophisticated.”

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Retail giant Walmart says that the company will discontinue Jet.com, the online-only marketplace that Walmart acquired in a whopping $3 billion deal back in 2016. It was an expensive effort to take on Amazon, “Due to continued strength of the Walmart.com brand, the company will discontinue Jet.com,” the company said in a short statement. “The acquisition of Jet.com nearly four years ago was critical to accelerating our Omni strategy.”

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According to the annual ranking of the top 40 renewable energy markets worldwide by consultancy EY, the United States has overtaken China to become the most attractive country in the world for renewables investment. The US topped the list for the first time since 2016. American growth was largely due to a short-term extension of a production tax credit for wind projects and a massive $57 investment plan

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Former English Football player Gary Neville believes that more players may reject a return to the much-awaited English Premier League due to coronavirus fears. "I know there are Premier League clubs with five or six players who don't want to return or are uncomfortable with certain things around stage two or three," Neville added. English Premier League is still looking for a June return and July finish

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Taiwan expressed disappointment and anger over exclusion from this year’s World Health Assembly organized by the World Health Organization. “We feel disappointed and angry about WHO’s decision of not inviting Taiwan to join this year’s WHA. We feel we have so much to share about our successful experiences in this Covid-19 outbreak response” said Yi-Chun Lo, deputy director-general at Taiwan Centers for Disease Control

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The United Arab Emirates introduced revised penalties for violation of coronavirus rules in the region. Those who host parties will be fined 10,000 dirhams ($2,722.59). If you don’t wear a mask, you have to pay 3,000 dirhams ($817) A national curfew that was initially shortened by two hours will also be extended back to its original duration, lasting from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily

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