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'Dave', a new comedy series created by Dave Burd, has averaged 4.8 million views per episode, making it the second most popular show on FX right behind Atlanta. The audience for the show has only increased since the coronavirus pandemic began and it looks like the show will overtake Atlanta soon.

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Adam Schlesinger, a musician and songwriter best known for his work on 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend', has died due to complications caused by the coronavirus. He was 52, he got nominations of Oscar, a Grammy, a Tony and an Emmy under his credentials but only won the latter two awards.

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Gita Ramjee, a world-renowned South African scientist died due to complications of the novel coronavirus. She dedicated her life to finding HIV prevention solutions for women. The largest number of people with HIV infection are living in South Africa. Death of Gita Ramjee came as a huge blow to the global fight against HIV. South is currently under a three-week lockdown in efforts to stop the coronavirus outbreak

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The new coronavirus pandemic has killed at least 45,719 people worldwide since its appearance in December in China, according to a tally by AFP from official sources on Wednesday at 1900 GMT.

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Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has confirmed 23 new cases of coronavirus. “Twenty-three new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria; 9 in Lagos, 7 in the FCT, 5 in Akwa Ibom, 1 in Kaduna and 1 in Bauchi State,” NCDC said on Twitter on Wednesday night.

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Kenya’s president on Wednesday apologised for the violence meted out by police following the declaration of a nationwide curfew last week to curb the spread of coronavirus. “I want to apologise to all Kenyans for… some excesses that were conducted,” President Uhuru Kenyatta said in a live broadcast from State House, during which he also introduced two young Kenyan coronavirus survivors.

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Antonio Guterres, the United Nations Secretary-General, has warned member nations that the COVID-19 pandemic could be the worst crisis the earth has faced since World War 2, stating that the economic impact of the pandemic will be unprecedented in recent memory and may trigger instability, volatility, and conflict across the globe, with the only mitigation option being for countries to stand together in combating the infection's spread.

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Masha Beetroot, Head of Communications at STICPAY, in Istanbul, says that her routine hasn't changed much due to coronavirus. “Mostly I work with reporters and journalists, now editors are preferring coronavirus related content, but nothing changed in our company as workload remained the same" we should not play the “Crisis management game” on COVID19. Capitalism is not working and a switch from scalable to local approach is inevitable, she added

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A team of astronomers led by Dr. Dacheng Lin at the University of New Hampshire in Durham believes it has discovered evidence for a particularly elusive kind of black hole that may be a missing link to a wider understanding of these mysterious bodies. Lin's team used the Hubble telescope along with two X-ray measurements to observe what is called an intermediate-mass black hole.

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With Spain experiencing yet another record single-day increase in coronavirus death tolls of 864, the death toll in the country passed 9,000, pushing Europe's cumulative death toll beyond the 30,000 mark, with more than 800,000 confirmed coronavirus cases around the world and more than 40,000 people dead in total across the globe.

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Lingumi, a London and Cardiff-based ed-tech startup focused on teaching pre-school children critical skills, has successfully raised 4 million GBP of funding, with China-based technology fund North Summit Capital leading the round. Lingumi started offering their first course on spoken English in China last year, and also plan on offering daily free content packs and videos to support users during the COVID-19 crisis.

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Uber Eats, the food delivery division of the ride-hailing giant Uber, has revealed that it is expanding its grocery delivery capabilities amid the worsening coronavirus crisis, which is seeing lockdowns continue in most countries. Eats is collaborating with supermarket giant Carrefour in France and the Galp service station chain in Spain to offer customers 30-minute delivery of essential food items, medical supplies and cleaning products.

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Stocks in US markets today continued to plunge due to the coronavirus crisis coupled with the Saudi-Russian oil price war, with the Dow Jones industrial average dipped below the 22,000 level after suffering its worst first quarter in the institution's entire 135-year history. Major financial institutions like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan predict an unprecedented first-quarter contraction in the US economy of between 25 to 34 percent.

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In his latest daily White House press briefing, US President Donald Trump has revealed that White House coronavirus taskforce response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx now predicts that the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic in the country could go up between 100,000 to 240,000 in the best-case scenario over the next two weeks, even if mitigation policies are enacted, with 1.5 to 2 million lives lost in the worst-case scenario.

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Skateboarding icon Jeff Grosso, who rose to fame alongside fellow legend Tony Hawk as one of the best skateboarders in the world and hosted Vans' Love Letters to Skateboarding, has passed away at the age of 51, at his residence in Costa Mesa, California. No further details about the cause of his death have been revealed, and he is survived by his 8-year-old son Oliver.

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Chris Cuomo, the 49-year-old CNN anchor whose brother Andrew is the current governor of New York and deceased father Mario was the former governor of New York, has tested positive for the COVID-19 infection. Cuomo has stated that he got tested when he starting experiencing COVID-19 symptoms such as fever, chills and breathing problems, and is currently isolating himself in his basement, from where he will continue hosting his show.

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The US Geological Survey has reported that a massive earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale recently hit the region north of Boise, the capital city of Idaho, an area with almost 2 million residents. No reports of injuries or significant damages have been received, though people have reported that the earthquake was severe enough that they heard it before they felt the tremors.

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Fan-favorite director Edgar Wright has signed on to direct a film based on an upcoming book by Simon Stephenson. The project is currently titled Set My Heart to Five and will revolve around a robot who undergoes an emotional awakening in the year 2054. The book will come out later this year.

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Veteran comedy writer/ comedian, Larry David recently appeared in a public service announcement where he encouraged people to stay home during the crisis and binge-watch television. He went on to insult people who are still going outside, calling them 'idiots' and telling them that by going out they are hurting old people.

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Zach Braff and Donald Faison have both come together to make a new podcast that will discuss every single episode of their hit show 'Scrubs'. The actors will discuss funny stories and behind the scenes information regarding each episode of the show. The podcast will be released weekly and will include other cast members as guests.

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Vericool, a California based startup, has managed to raise a whopping $19.1 million in funding for its new coolers that are made entirely of plant-based materials. The company hopes to replace plastic coolers with a much greener alternative and has a great track record when it comes to innovation and social justice.

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Ten global and local private equity companies have sent an open letter to Indian startups telling them to prepare for the worst. It will be incredibly difficult to secure funding in the next few months due to the coronavirus crisis. Many startups have been forced to halt their businesses due to nationwide lockdown.

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The world-famous platformer 'Rayman Legends' is currently free for anyone who wishes to download it. Ubisoft has said that it intends to give away a large number of games over the next few weeks in order to encourage social distancing. The game will be available until April 4th and can be downloaded from the Uplay.

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Russia has sent a military plane full of medical equipment and protective masks to the US in order to help them fight the coronavirus pandemic. The plane was sent after Putin and Trump discussed the crisis over the phone where both sides agreed to help each other if necessary.

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The British government has announced that it intends to increase the country's coronavirus testing capacity from 12, 750 to 25,000 people a day. They are expected to hit this number by mid-April as they steadily increase capacity every week. Many claim these increases are not coming fast enough and are not widespread enough

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