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Indonesia announces biggest daily rise in coronavirus cases, 24 doctors now dead

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Medical workers wearing disposable raincoats as their protective suits to serve patients are pictured amid the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak at a local health center in Aceh, Indonesia, April 6, 2020 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Picture taken April 6, 2020. Antara Foto/Irwansyah Putra/ via REUTERS Indonesian soldiers distribute free face masks to the locals amid the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Kudus, Central Java province, Indonesia, April 6, 2020 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Picture taken April 6, 2020. Antara Foto/Yusuf Nugroho/ via REUTERS (Reuters) - Indonesia announced its biggest daily increase in novel coronavirus cases on Monday and a medical association said 24 doctors had now died after contracting the virus. The rise in the death toll among doctors, which has doubled since last week, followed criticism of a lack of protective equipment in Indonesia.

Team Trump remains at the forefront

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00:02 02:24 President Trump is launching a daily schedule of online campaign programming that, combined with daily White House briefings, is part of a double-barreled strategy to woo voters virtually after the coronavirus canceled live events. The Trump campaign plans to broadcast one marquee event on its website and social media channels each day this week and nearly every Monday through Saturday in the weeks ahead. The programming is an acceleration of efforts to reach voters amid a public health crisis that grounded the president’s robust itinerary of stadium rallies and roundtables, as well as similar gatherings hosted by prominent supporters. This blueprint for aggressive virtual engagement is dovetailing with the nationally televised news conferences Trump leads from the White House almost seven days a week, during which he details the administration’s progress toward bringing the coronavirus pandemic to heel. “The Trump campaign is being smart

Coronavirus: Over 300 Nigerians with return tickets stranded in China, seek FG’s intervention to return

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ver 300 Nigerians mostly businessmen and women with valid return tickets to Nigeria have been stranded in China. Making this known to reporters in Enugu on Tuesday was the Executive Director of Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) Comrade Ibuchukwu Ohabuenyi Ezike. Ezike told journalists that the affected Nigerians who travelled to China before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic are currently locked down in China, adding that they have cried out to his human rights group for help. According to Ezike, they called from China appealing to the Federal Government through the human rights organization for immediate intervention so that they are evacuated to Nigeria. “We demand immediate and unconditional positive response by the Nigerian authorities,” they told the CLO boss. The CLO leader stated, “Over 300 Nigerians who travelled to China for business activities before the coronavirus pandemic shut down the World have cried out to the Civil Liberties Organisation (CL