Drive-through funerals are being held in the epicenter of Spain's coronavirus pandemic
Updated 1105 GMT (1905 HKT) April 6, 2020
Every fifteen minutes or so, a dark hearse pulls up in front of the crematorium of Madrid's sprawling La Almudena cemetery.
Father Edduar, a Catholic priest dressed for mass, walks out of the building to greet family members who have come to pay their final respects -- by national rule, each group is limited to five or fewer people. The driver opens the trunk to reveal a simple wooden casket. Standing behind the hearse, under a shaded carport, the mourners keep a distance. Some wear masks, or even gloves. Hugs and kisses are an uncommon sight.
Market for Chinese-made masks is a madhouse, says broker
Manufacturers making huge profits supplying to whoever can pay the most and pay fastest
The scramble for face masks has created a “madhouse” atmosphere among Chinese manufacturers, who are making huge profits as customers around the world fight to be the first in line.
Producers of masks and respirators are demanding to be paid in full before the products leave their factories and are supplying whoever can pay the most and pay fastest, according to Michael Crotty, a textile broker based in Shanghai.
Crotty, of Golden Pacific Fashion and Design, said he had spent all of Sunday dealing with a flood of new enquiries from US states, national governments, cities, hospitals, distributors and private companies seeking to protect their employees.
Chernobyl sees radiation spike after contaminated forest in exclusion zone catches fire
Ukraine ecology chief says blaze is 'bad news' for regionTom Embury-Dennis
A radioactive forest within Chernobyl’s exclusion zone has caught fire, triggering a spike in local radiation levels.
On Sunday around 90 firefighters were deployed to fight the blaze, which a Ukrainian official said had spread over almost 250 acres, 50 of which were within the restricted area around the disused nuclear power plant.
“Firefighters continue to fight the fire that originated in the Chernobyl zone. The situation is difficult,” Yegor Firsov, Ukraine’s ecological inspection service chief wrote on Facebook Sunday morning.
How the coronavirus lockdown is hitting Mexico's drug cartels
The global coronavirus lockdown is making it hard for Mexican drug cartels to operate. With borders shut and limited air traffic, cartels are turning on each other. Sandra Weiss reports from Mexico City.
There's nothing you can't find on Mexico City's Tepito Market, locals say. In this maze of alleyways and stalls, you can buy anything from brand-name clothing, to flat-screen televisions, toys, glasses, drones, mobiles and much more. Wares produced in informal workshops are on offer, as are counterfeit consumer goods from China and even illegal drugs and weapons.
Tepito Market is controlled by a criminal gang called Union Tepito. And anyone wishing to sell products here must pay protection money. Each week, the mobsters rake in hundreds of thousands of pesos though this racket.
Crowd in Ivory Coast destroys coronavirus testing centre in residential area
Residents in a working-class district of the Ivory Coast city of Abidjan on Sunday destroyed a coronavirus testing centre that was under construction, police and health ministry officials said.
Videos posted on social media, showed several dozen people dismantling the building, some of them shouting: "We don't want it!"
The incident happened in Yopougon district of the city of five million inhabitants, which is the country's commercial capital.
Nerds-in-chief: The rising heroes of the coronavirus era
By Matina Stevis-Gridneff
If it weren't the age of social distancing, people would stop them on the street to take selfies. Instead, they get adoring messages on social media. Others appear on television daily.
The new celebrities emerging across Europe as the coronavirus burns a deadly path through the continent are not actors or singers or politicians. They are epidemiologists and virologists who have become household names after spending most of their lives in virtual anonymity.
While nurses and doctors treat patients on the front lines, epidemiologists and virologists who have spent careers in lecture halls and laboratories have become the most trusted sources of information in an era of deep uncertainty, diverging policy and raging disinformation.
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