Coronavirus: Prince Charles tests positive but 'remains in good health'
The Prince of Wales has tested positive for coronavirus, Clarence House has announced.
Prince Charles, 71, is displaying mild symptoms "but otherwise remains in good health", a spokesman said, adding that the Duchess of Cornwall, 72, has been tested but does not have the virus.
Both Charles and Camilla are now self-isolating at Balmoral.
Buckingham Palace said the Queen last saw her son on 12 March, but also "remains in good health".
Quarantined Brazilians protest against Bolsonaro from windows and balconies: 'Get out!'
President faces anger at response to coronavirus and pent-up discontent with his year-old administration
by Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Some came to their windows wielding saucepans; others armed with nothing but their voice.
“Fora Bolsonaro!” (“Get out, Bolsonaro!”) they yelled into the darkness, as fellow dissenters pounded pots and pans with wooden spoons as a way of venting their spleen against Brazil’s far-right president.
Draconian measures designed to slow the spread of coronavirus mean millions of Brazilians are now cooped up at home and unable to take their anger on to the streets.
Coronavirus: Hundreds of Asian Americans have been violently attacked over last month because of ‘China virus’ racism, activists say
Incidents increased by ‘leaps and bounds’Andrew BuncombeSeattle
Hundreds of Asian Americans have been violently attacked in the last month because of “China virus“ racism voiced by Donald Trump and others, activists have claimed.
Amid criticism that repeated use of the phrase “China virus” to refer to coronavirus by Mr Trump and some of his top officials was racist, activists said they had seen violent attacks on Asian Americans increase in “leaps and bound” over the last three weeks.
This was in addition to verbal abuse, slurs and other racist rhetoric that members of the community have suffered.
Coronavirus: What aid packages have governments agreed?
Governments across the globe are scrambling to counter the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. DW examines what stimulus measures have been unveiled.Trillions of euros in financial stimulus to fight the global coronavirus outbreak have been unveiled over recent days and weeks. Financial authorities are saying this is just the beginning. Here's a look at some of the measures that have been announced.
Top French hospital official says coronavirus toll higher than official tally
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 than tenfold increase in 11 days and an average increase of 28% per day, data tracked by Reuters shows.
"We only know the data provided by hospitals," Frederic Valletoux, president of the French Hospitals Federation, said on France Info radio.
Tokyo posts biggest daily jump in coronavirus infections
More than 40 cases of coronavirus infections were reported in Tokyo on Wednesday, Japanese media reported, the biggest one-day increase in Japan's capital which has overtaken much smaller cities to become the country's epicenter of the virus.
Ten of the cases were connected with a hospital in Taito Ward where a nurse and a patient were confirmed infected on Tuesday, NHK reported. Wednesday's infections increases the total cases in Tokyo to around 200.
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