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Carbon Health and Nurx, two prominent health industry startups, have started shipping sample coronavirus test kits that they have developed. The kits allow users to safely collect mucus samples to mail back to the companies who will test it at a commercial lab. Both these tests can cost upwards of $150.

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Instagram Co-Founder Mike Krieger has created a website that will allow users to buy gift cards for restaurants that have been quarantined. The site will allow users to stop their favorite local restaurants from going out of business due to the quarantine. There are currently just 700 restaurants on the site but it is always accepting new submissions.

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South Korea has asked businesses to close facilities and for its citizens to stop socializing for the next 15 days. The government also warned of consequences for people who do not adhere to the new rules as the coronavirus is spreading rapidly across the country. Experts claim this will be a 'long battle' for the country

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The global leader in cruise operations, Carnival Cruise Lines announced that the company is willing to convert some of its cruise ships into makeshift hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic. According to the official press release, floating hospitals are capable of up to 1,000 rooms with the connection of remote monitoring patient devices over the ship's high-speed network. The government already warned about the increasing pressure on hospital facilities

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Actor-singer Kenny Rogers best known for his songs “Lucille,” “Lady” and “Islands in the Stream” as well as his TV persona 'The Gambler, has passed away. He died at the old age of 81 while under hospice care. His death was ruled to be due to natural causes. He had retired from public life at age 79.

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UK government has announced a scheme to be run by HRMC which will pay 80% of the salary for staff to stop the risk of workers getting laid off as the firms are unable to retain them due to the coronavirus crisis. HRMC is expecting to make the first payments to businesses within weeks. CBI and The Resolution Foundation have welcomed the scheme and have called it a landmark package

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As a result of travel restrictions imposed by the government of South Africa to stop the spread of novel coronavirus, an aircraft with three British tourists was isolated on Wednesday for two days at Lanseria Airport near Johannesburg despite the fact that they had been travelling in low-risk countries. Earlier by Friday, 14 international flights from COVID-19 high-risk countries were grounded at OR Tambo International Airport

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Founder of Alibaba and the richest person in China, Jack Ma announced in a tweet on Saturday that he will donate emergency supplies to South Asian countries amid Coronavirus health crisis. The supplies will include 1.8 million masks, 210,000 test kits, 36,000 protective suits, ventilators, and thermometers. He added that the supplies will be delivered to Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan & Sri Lanka

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Nikki Haley, former UN ambassador and former governor of South Carolina, has resigned from her position as a board member of the American plane manufacturer Boeing, after disagreements with senior management for seeking government aid due to the financial stress caused by the coronavirus crisis. Boeing seeks 60 billion USD from the Trump administration, which the government is willing to provide since Boeing is a prominent US defense contractor.

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The island nation of Sri Lanka is set to institute a nationwide curfew starting Friday and ending Monday, with mosques shut down indefinitely in the country to prevent the spread of the coronavirus infection. The Sri Lankan government's decision comes as South Asia sees rapidly increasing numbers of cases and deaths, with 750 infected and seven people dead in the region.

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Ruth May, the chief nursing officer of England, has asked more than 65,000 medical staff whose registration has expired in the last three years to return to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The Nursing and Midwifery Council is to request 50,000 nurses to return to their former jobs, while the General Medical Council will request more than 15,000 retired doctors for their expertise.

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American Airlines has decided to re-introduce cargo-only flights to its schedule, for the first time since 1987, due to shrinking operations caused by travel bans imposed internationally to control the spread of the coronavirus pandemic coupled with lower consumer demand. All major US airlines have suspended international passenger flights, with Delta Airlines joining American in using passenger planes for moving cargo.

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Italian health officials confirmed 627 deaths in the country in less than 24 hours as the total number of cases jumped above 47,000. Italy is still under lockdown after the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced the country will prolong the lockdown beyond April 3. So far, 4,032 people have died from novel coronavirus in Italy. Global coronavirus cases reached 265,976 as the death toll jumped above 11,000

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The popular social media app TikTok has put in 3 million USD into Hollywood actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's charity After-School All-Stars, which promises food security to families affected by the closure of public schools due to the coronavirus pandemic. Families in 60 cities will receive food coupons and gift cards that they can spend on essential food items.

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It was recently made public that North Carolina's Republican Senator Richard Burr downplayed the coronavirus outbreak while getting rid of hundreds of thousands of dollars of stocks before the market collapsed as the pandemic spread. Senator Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called for Burr's resignation after the secretary of the Senate disclosed him and his wife had sold more than 33 stocks valued between 628,000 to 1.7 million USD.

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Only a week after the Bank of England cut interest rates down to 0.25 percent, the lowest point in the bank's 325-year history, interest rates have once again been lowered to 0.1 percent, the new lowest point in the institution's history. The move comes as Treasurer Rishi Sunak met with UK's finance leadership to announce further stimulus packages to combat the rising economic panic caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Disney film fans on social media are dumbstruck after convincing themselves that Disney's 2010 animated film Tangled predicted the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Fans have made the connection that Rapunzel was kept locked in a tower by her mother for days at a time, which is a metaphor for quarantine, while the village she was kept away from was named Corona, which can be thought of as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Hollywood star Gal Gadot, famous for her role as Wonder Woman in the Marvel superhero movie franchise, is being slammed by angry social media users after she posted a video of herself singing John Lennon's 1971 song Imagine, with Gadot singing the first line followed by other Hollywood stars such as Mark Ruffalo, Amy Adams and Will Ferrell, who are being criticized for being multi-millionaires while promoting the song's message.

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US President Donald Trump has asked the F.D.A to study malaria drugs and their potential to help those with the coronavirus, saying it looks promising. There has been no proper study that has tested this medicine or its potential to treat the virus although some doctors in France and South Korea have said that it helped.

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Ben Affleck's latest movie, 'The Way Back', is now available for purchase online, despite being released just a few weeks ago on March 6th. The movie was unable to attract a large audience in theatres due to the coronavirus pandemic and aims to gain a larger audience through the internet.

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Netflix has announced that it will be lowering video quality for European users due to the coronavirus. Since so many people are using Netflix from their homes during the quarantine, this could overload Netflix's servers and increase video buffering. This change will only last for 30 days as the worst of the pandemic passes.

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Musicians have come together to support an online petition asking Spotify to triple royalty payments in order to help them make up for lost concert revenue. Most concerts in coronavirus hit countries have been canceled due to government regulations. Spotify has started a Covid-19 relief fund to provide relief to these musicians.

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Disney has announced that it will be postponing the launch of its new streaming service in India. They said that this pause would be brief and made this announcement just after the Indian Premier League was rescheduled due to the coronavirus. They have not given a new launch date as of yet.

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Instagram seems to be preparing to copy one of Snapchat's most popular features, the disappearing private chat. They have begun prototyping a chat thread that disappears once you leave it. They are hoping this will get people to use the chat feature on the app more often and have them returning to the app many times in a day.

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French President, Emmanuel Macron, has recently said that France is at the beginning of a potential coronavirus crisis as the government attempts to curb the spread of the virus. He stressed the importance of preparing for and anticipating the impacts of the virus on society. The government has started having crisis meetings to deal with the pandemic.

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