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Coronavirus latest: US expecting up to 200,000 deaths

One of the lead members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force is predicting millions of infections. Spain has set another grim daily record for the number deaths. Follow DW for the latest. Go to article

CORONAVIRUS IN GERMANY

A man wearing a mask holding a cellphone (picture-alliance/ZumaPress/Z. Maulana)

Will Germans trade privacy for protection?

Asian countries have used digital tracking to fight the new coronavirus, while Europe has put its faith in social distancing. Germany's government is debating how much privacy should and can be protected amid a pandemic.

German churches overcoming virus isolation

A church in Trier films its church service for online and TV

With Germany in lockdown, pastors and priests are looking for new ways to reach the country's 3 million regular worshippers. Elderly churchgoers are especially in need of pastoral care.

Startups get a coronavirus boost

The bottom of an escalator and a handrail

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought most businesses to a standstill, but some startups are booming. Offering everything from disinfectants to education and working from home apps, some small firms are seeing great success.

CORONAVIRUS AROUND THE WORLD

Africa correspondents on life during COVID-19

An elderly man looks out of the window in South Africa in authorities impose a coronavirus lockdown (Reuters/S. Hisham)

As the global pandemic evolves, Africa is taking measures to defend itself. We asked our correspondents across the continent of 54 nations how their countries are coping and how their own lives have been affected.

Coronavirus threatens Poland's remarkable growth

Ambulance crews disinfect their ambulances in Warsaw

Some analysts predict Poland's GDP growth will slow to 2% in 2020 from 4% last year. Others predict a worse scenario if things take a wrong turn, despite the measures taken by the government in Warsaw.

India advises states to curtail mass migration

Migrant workers atop a bus in India (Reuters/A. Dave)

India's efforts to control the spread of the novel coronavirus have fallen into disarray. Thousands of workers have started flouting the lockdown rules to migrate back to their home state.

CORONAVIRUS EXPLAINERS

Rush to develop rapid COVID-19 tests

A red X being drawn on a coronavirus test sheet (Imago-Images/photothek/T. Trutschel)

Are enough people being tested for COVID-19 in Germany? Various tests are being developed and brought out onto the global market. There is still no reliable self-testing kit, however.

Why do coronavirus death rates differ?

Coffins stacked at a crematorium in Piacenza, Italy

Many of us are tracking the daily coronavirus infection and death rates. You may have noticed that the death rates differ greatly from country to country. Here are some of the main reasons.

Europol warns against coronavirus scams

Coronavirus vaccine: 'Clinical tests' in Germany soon

Coronavirus in Syria: An invisible enemy

Why does Indonesia have a high COVID-19 mortality rate?

Vivid German phrases in the midst of the pandemic

Can life go on as before after quarantine?

Pope Francis prays alone for end to coronavirus crisis

NEWS REPORTS

Bayern Munich's Hansi Flick: Ghost games only way to finish season amid coronavirus

Bundesliga Borussia Mönchengladbach gegen Bayern München (Imago/J. Huebner
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Bayern Munich coach Hansi Flick believes the only way to finish the football season is behind closed doors in "ghost games." Joshua Kimmich and Leon Goretzka have also revealed how much they are missing the sport.

Thomas Schäfer (picture-alliance/dpa/A. Arnold)

German state finance minister found dead

Police suspect Thomas Schäfer died by suicide after his body was found on train tracks near Wiesbaden. He was the finance minister for the state of Hesse, where Germany's financial center Frankfurt lies.

Former French minister Patrick Devedjian dies of COVID-19

Patrick Devedjian (Getty Images/AFP/L. Bonaventure)

A French former cabinet minister and former president of the Parisian Haut-de-Seine administrative district has become one of the first high-profile politicians to die of COVID-19. Patrick Devedjian was 75.

Russia's Rosneft ends Venezuela trading

An oil rig in western Caracas (Getty Images/AFP/J. Barreto)

Vladimir Putin's government has taken control of Rosneft's Venezuelan assets to try and sidestep US sanctions. The move comes shortly after the US indicted Nicolas Maduro and other officials over narcotrafficking.

STORIES & ANALYSIS

Mali vote to go ahead despite COVID-19

An election campagin board by a busy road in Mali (DW/K. Gänsler)

With coronavirus cases on the rise, the government has declared a medical emergency in the country. But people will still head to the polls on Sunday to vote for a new parliament.

Perspectives

Civil protection and soldiers load coffins into a truck

How many deaths can we afford?

Just two weeks into this crisis some are actually calculating how many deaths society can accept to salvage the economy.

German state finance minister Thomas Schäfer found dead

Coronavirus: Netherlands recalls 'defective' masks bought from China

Coronavirus latest: US can expect 100,000 to 200,000 deaths

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How to stay healthy at home during the coronavirus lockdown

Cooped up and feeling sluggish, bored, even a bit miserable? Despite being confined indoors during the coronavirus outbreak, there are still lots of things you can do to protect your health and wellbeing.