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As Italy eases long lockdown, leaders push vaccine effort

By Associated Press

Millions of people were allowed to return to work in Italy Monday as Europe's longest lockdown started to ease.

Many field hospitals are empty, but may be used if there's a second wave of infections

By Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press

Uncertainty in planning for the coronavirus pandemic has left the globe dotted with dozens of barely used or unused temporary field hospitals. Many makeshift facilities will now be kept on standby for a potential second wave of infections.

Many failures combined to unleash death on Italy's Lombardy

By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press

As Italy prepares to emerge from the West’s first and most extensive coronavirus lockdown, it is increasingly clear that something went terribly wrong in Lombardy, the hardest-hit region in Europe’s hardest-hit country.

Nations struggle to count virus toll

By Aritz Parra, Mike Corder, Ken Moritsugu, Associated Press

China has announced that the coronavirus death toll Wuhan was nearly 50% higher than previously reported. The revision highlights just how seriously current figures may be understating the true toll of the pandemic around the globe.

WATCH: Cuomo calls virus 'a killer' as NY death toll surpasses 10,000

By Eric Tucker, Aritz Parra, Joseph Wilson, Associated Press

Governments are struggling with the delicate balance between keeping people safe from a highly contagious disease and making sure they can still make a living or have enough to eat.

20,000: U.S. death toll overtakes Italy's as Midwest braces

By Kathleen Foody, Amy Forliti, Geir Moulson, Associated Press

The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed Italy's for the highest in the world Saturday at about 20,000, as Chicago and other cities across the Midwest braced for a potential surge in victims and moved to snuff out smoldering…

Italy begins to grapple with how to ease virus restrictions

By Colleen Barry, Associated Press

With warmer weather beckoning, Italians are straining against a strict lockdown to halt the coronavirus that is just now showing signs of ebbing at the end of five weeks of mass isolation.

Economic devastation looms on a Good Friday like no other

By Aritz Parra, Elena Becatoros, Associated Press

As Christians around the world observed a Good Friday like no other, at home watching livestreams instead of at church, pressure mounted on governments to restart some industries and fend off further economic devastation from the coronavirus.

U.S. officials urge adherence to social distancing as NY infections slow

By John Yang

The human cost of the novel coronavirus pandemic is still rising worldwide, but infections may be leveling off in Italy, Spain and New York, which lost nearly 800 people to the disease Tuesday. U.S. officials at both the state and…

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Global virus infections top 800,000 as Spain sees record deaths

By Aritz Parra, David Rising, Nick Perry, Associated Press

Spain's coronavirus deaths jumped by a record number Tuesday as the country's medical system strained to care for its tens of thousands of infected patients and the world total climbed to more than 800,000 case.