Coronavirus: ‘Half of humanity’ under social distancing curbs

Summary

  1. The One World: Together At Home show included more than 100 artists play live from their homes
  2. The eight-hour event was run by the Global Citizen movement and the WHO was live-streamed and broadcast on TV
  3. Lady Gaga, who helped organise the concert, also performed
  4. At his White House briefing on Saturday evening, President Donald Trump praised the production of hospital goods in the US: “V for victory, V for ventilator!”
  5. Councils in England are to get an extra £1.6bn in funding to help them deal with the pandemic
  6. Britain’s Queen Elizabeth has asked that there be no gun salutes to mark her birthday on Tuesday
  7. It is thought to be the first such request from the Palace in the British monarch’s 68-year reign.
  8. As world coronavirus deaths pass 150,000, more than 4.5 billion people are under containment to slow the pandemic.

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