British department store retailer Debenhams files for administration due to "unprecedented" circumstances caused by the UK's coronavirus lockdown. (BBC)
France reports 833 more deaths from COVID-19, the highest number of deaths recorded in hospitals in a single day, bringing the country's death toll to 8,911 and 98,010 cases. Health Minister Olivier Véran says "We have not reached the end of the end of the ascent of this epidemic". (BBC)
Police and protesters clash in Ivory Coast, after the latter dismantled a half-built COVID-19 testing center over fears that people using the facility would spread the virus through their district. (Reuters)
In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration designates a white supremacist group, based in Russia, as a terrorist organization, along with placing individual sanctions on its leaders. The organization, , is believed to have trained the perpetrators of a series of terror attacks in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2016. (Associated Press)
South Sudan Vice President Riek Machar confirms the country's first case of COVID-19. The patient is a 29-year-old woman who had arrived from Ethiopia in February and is now in isolation. (Reuters)
King Mohammed VI pardons 5,654 prisoners and orders new measures to protect inmates from COVID-19. The prisoners were selected on the basis of their age, frail health, time spent in prison and good conduct. (Middle East Monitor)
New York reports 8,327 new confirmed cases and 594 more deaths from COVID-19, bringing the state's death toll to 4,159 and 122,000 cases, according to Governor Andrew Cuomo. (Reuters)
Queen Elizabeth II gives an address to the nation, just the fifth such event in the monarch's 68-year reign, where she compares social isolation to the world war evacuations, thanks the public for their resilience and the world for unifying. (BBC)
Five people are killed in a mass shooting in Yelatma, Ryazan Oblast, Russia. The suspect has been arrested and said he shot dead four men and one woman for "talking too loudly". (BBC)
A 63-year-old drunk man is shot dead by police at a checkpoint in Nasipit, Agusan del Norte, after threatening officials and police with a scythe when cautioned about not wearing a face mask. (Al Jazeera)
PresidentPeter Mutharika announces a stimulus package to help relieve the economic stress resulting from the disease. To raise money for this program, he and all other government ministers are taking a ten percent wage cut for three months. (BBC)