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Mortgage firms are bracing for a wave of missed payments starting April 1 as borrowers lose their jobs.

A former police commander and a civilian were also wounded in the blast, and all three were being treated in hospital, Puntland's interior minister, Mohamed Abdirahman, told reporters.

The vote, which had been slated for April 28, will instead take place on June 23 as New York reported 52,318 positive cases and 728 deaths due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Raab is a contentious figure, having stirred many controversies with his comments. In 2011, he had termed feminists the 'most obnoxious bigots in the UK'.

The test, which is the size of a small toaster and uses molecular technology, also shows negative results within 13 minutes,

The new coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 25,000 people, with Europe accounting for most of the deaths.

The US President issued orders for General Motors to produce ventilators for coronavirus patients under the Defense Production Act as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise in the country.

"In terms of the timetable, there's no change from our point of view," Johnson's spokesman told the media, adding the joint commission meeting scheduled for Monday was "going ahead".

One virus, the scientists said, shows strong similarity in the sequence of the receptor-binding domain -- a region that encodes the spike' of the virus that facilitates entry into host cells.

Justin Trudeau said the Canadian government is in discussion with the Trump administration in avoiding troops in its shared borders as COVID-19 cases continue to surge worldwide.

Police in Mexico City arrested 10 people on Tuesday night who tried to rob shops in four neighborhoods, the city's security ministry said in a statement.

At least 24 of 94 residents and patients of St. Joseph’s Senior Home in Woodbridge, about 20 miles south of Newark, have tested positive for coronavirus and the other 70 clients are also believed to have the virus, authorities said.

Anthony Fauci, who leads research into infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health, said the virus was beginning to take root in the southern hemisphere, where winter is on its way.

Iran had long resisted imposing any lockdown, choosing instead to rely on verbal appeals for people to stay home.

The government has put forward a motion for the House of Commons, the lower elected chamber, to shut at the end of Wednesday's proceedings until April 21.

George Falcone, 50, was issued a summons for terroristic threats in the third degree and other charges over the incident, according to the office of New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal.