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Image copyright Reuters Image caption Sixteen people have died at the Rothschild care home in Paris Deaths can be invisible, coffins are hard to hide.Outside the Rothschild care home in Paris, a delivery van pulls up to unload its pale wooden cargo, still wrapped in factory plastic.A delivery man tells…

By John Irish and Marine PennetierPARIS (Reuters) - France will extend a national lockdown until April 15 after reporting its biggest daily death toll from coronavirus, its prime minister said on Friday, and officials warned that hospitals around Paris could be overwhelmed in 48 hours."At the end of these first…

Masks made for local hospitals and clinics by Humboldter Ixchel Carr. | Photos provided by April AlexanderIn an effort to help combat the nation’s ongoing medical mask shortage caused by the coronavirus epidemic, a locally organized Facebook group is sewing homemade masks and donating them to healthcare workers nationwide.St. Joseph Health Clinical Social…

While most domestic and international airlines are cutting thousands of flights from their schedules due to the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, Qatar Airways is taking another route. The airline is actually stepping up some of its flying again, after also announcing some cuts in the last few days, by…

PARIS (Reuters) - The death toll in France from coronavirus is much higher than the daily government tally, which only accounts for those dying in hospitals, a senior French health official said on Wednesday.France reported a cumulative 1,100 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, up from 91 on March 14, a more…

PARIS -- Young German adults hold “corona parties" and cough toward older people. A Spanish man leashes a goat to go for a walk to skirt confinement orders. From France to Florida to Australia, kitesurfers, college students and others crowd the beaches. Their defiance of lockdown mandates and scientific advice…

FILE PHOTO: A woman, wearing a protective face mask, shops for fruits and vegetables at the Bastille Market in Paris as a lockdown is imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in France, March 19, 2020. REUTERS/Gonzalo FuentesPARIS (Reuters) - France is trying to facilitate the repatriation…

FILE PHOTO: Employees work on an Airbus A220-300 at the Airbus facility in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada February 20, 2020. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi/File PhotoPARIS (Reuters) - Airbus (AIR.PA) has drawn up contingency plans to slow or stop production if France is placed under a drastic lockdown due to coronavirus, two people familiar…

Liverpool won the Champions League last season and are closing in on their first English league title since 1990Liverpool have the most valuable squad in the transfer market from Europe's top-five leagues, according to research group CIES Football Observatory.With an aggregated value of 1.4bn euros (£1.27bn), the Reds top the…

FILE PHOTO: An information sign is seen at a school in Nice as France will close from Monday all nurseries, schools and universities to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), France, March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Eric GaillardPARIS (Reuters) - France is preparing an order that would put…