SAO PAULO, April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in Latin America, Brazil’s Sao Paulo state, said it expects 111,000 deaths in the next six months, and extended its stay-at-home measures another two weeks. The forecast — an official projection, the state government said — would appear…

WASHINGTON, April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Donald Trump announced a deal with US manufacturing giant 3M to provide millions of facemasks to combat the coronavirus pandemic after a dispute over foreign distribution. “We have reached a very amicable agreement with 3M for the delivery of an additional 55.5 million high…

A medical worker wheels a body to a refrigerated trailer serving as a makeshift morgue at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York WASHINGTON, April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States now has at least 367,507 cases of the coronavirus and 10,908 deaths, according to data…

SANTIAGO, April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — With historically low riverflows and reservoirs running dry due to drought, people in central Chile have found themselves particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic. Years of resource exploitation and lax legislation have allowed mostreservoirs in that part of the country to run dry. “There are…

BUENOS AIRES, April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Argentine government hasordered people to stay at home until mid-April, but thousands have literallynowhere to go — for them “home” is the street. The homeless are among the very few seen on the streets of the capitalBuenos Aires since President Alberto Fernandez issued…

NEW YORK, April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A tiger at New York’s Bronx Zoo hastested positive for COVID-19, the institution said, and is believed tohave contracted the virus from a caretaker who was asymptomatic at the time. The four-year-old Malayan tiger named Nadia along with her sister Azul, two Amur tigers…

UNITED NATIONS, April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — UN SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres is urging governments around the world to include the protection of women in their response to the deadly novel coronavirus pandemic. “Violence is not confined to the battlefield,” said Guterres in a statementand a video released in multiple languages, reminiscent…

WASHINGTON, April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US naval commander whose widely publicized plea for help for his coronavirus-affected crew led to hisdismissal has reportedly himself tested positive for the disease. Captain Brett Crozier’s COVID-19 test result was reported by the New York Times, just hours after US Defense Secretary Mark…

BOGOTA, April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Hundreds of Venezuelans who fled toneighboring Colombia during their country’s economic crisis are now returning home, pushed by the deadly novel coronavirus and Colombia’s own pandemic woes. Colombian migration officials said that 600 people — including 35children and 167 women — crossed the main border…