World

  • Death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 90000 worldwide
  • Pandemic undermines global employment, trade (Employment, working hours and world trade are all taking a massive hit globally as the COVID-19pandemic disrupts normal economic activity and life around the world. The novel coronavirus will wipe out 6.7 percent of working hours globally in the second quarter of 2020, which is equivalent to 195 million full-time jobs, according to a report released by the International Labour Organization on Tuesday)
  • Mexico reaches deal with US to cut crude output
  • French army reports 50 COVID-19 cases aboard aircraft carrier
  • Spain reports fall in new coronavirus cases and deaths
  • Chinese companies donate food to Kenyan students to fight COVID-19
  • Russia reports new record daily rise of coronavirus cases
  • Yemen has 1st confirmed virus case, more than 10000 in Israel
  • OPEC(The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) agree to cut oil production, deal held up by Mexico
  • Wuhan company makes a donation to outbreak-hit Italy

China

  • Oversight to be boosted for exports (China will step up quality supervision over its exported medical supplies while facilitation the procurement of epidemic containment materials by other countries, according to a statement released after a meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday)
  • China expresses a desire to expand trade amid a pandemic
  • Imported virus may not trigger a new wave. Zhong Nanshan, a prominent expert in respiratory diseases.
  • At Beijing Hotels, negative tests to be required(Starting on Sunday, travelers who come to Beijing will be required to provide negative coronavirus test results when they check in to hotels in the capital, under a new measure announced on Friday.)
  • Patient in sunset photo released from hospital
  • China geared up to meet demand of ventilators
  • China to offer global students online courses in English
  • New yuan loans up 1.29t yuan in Q1