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Last Updated: Bangladesh Enforces Weeklong Virus Lockdown Bangladesh began enforcing a weeklong nationwide lockdown Monday, shutting shopping malls and transportation as authorities try to stop a surge in coronavirus infections and deaths. AP Bangladesh began enforcing a weeklong nationwide lockdown Monday, shutting shopping malls and transportation as authorities try to stop a surge in coronavirus infections and deaths. The decision came after health authorities said that they were facing overwhelming pressure in intensive care units in recent weeks because of severe infections. This is the second time the South Asian nation has enforced a virus lockdown after the first last March. ....
By The Associated Press MANILA, Philippines â The Philippine government extended a lockdown by another week Monday after an alarming spike in coronavirus infections continued to surge and started to overwhelm many hospitals in the capital and outlying regions. President Rodrigo Duterte placed Metropolitan Manila and four outlying provinces, a region of more than 25 million people, back under lockdown last week as daily infections breached the 10,000-mark. Leaders of the dominant Roman Catholic church shifted its Holy Week and Easter events online after all public gatherings, including in places of worship, were temporarily banned. The government-run Lung Center of the Philippines became the latest hospital in the capital region to announce over the weekend that it can no longer accept walk-in patients after its COVID-19 ward reached full capacity while its emergency room was now handling twice its capacity. ....
The Latest: Britain eyes twice weekly virus tests for all The Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 9 1of9Small socially distanced groups gather in the sunshine on Primrose Hill overlooking the buildings of central London, Sunday April 4, 2021. (Kirsty O Connor/PA via AP)Kirsty O Connor/APShow MoreShow Less 2of9A health worker administers the COVISHIELD vaccine for COVID-19 at a residential area in Ahmedabad, India, Sunday, April 4, 2021.Ajit Solanki/APShow MoreShow Less 3of9 4of9People wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk in Osaka, western Japan, Friday, April 2, 2021. Semi-emergency coronavirus measures began in Osaka and its neighboring prefecture in western Japan and another prefecture in the north Monday, April 5, 2021 as Japan tries to minimize the economic impact to specific areas where infections are rising back less than four months before the Tokyo Olympics. (Yosuke Mizuno/Kyodo News via AP)Yosuke Mizu ....