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Britain's Queen Elizabeth has asked that there be no gun salutes to mark her birthday on Tuesday, a reporter for ITV News said on Twitter.

Hong Kong police have yet to confirm the arrests, which media said related to marches on Aug. 18 and Oct. 1 last year — both days of large and at times violent protests across the city.

The outbreak has highlighted underlying weaknesses in medical care in Japan, which has long been praised for its high quality insurance system and reasonable costs.

Covid-19 has infected more than 2,214,800 around the world as of Friday, killing at least 150,948 people.

Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in China, added 325 confirmed coronavirus cases and 1,290 deaths to the city's Covid-19 count after "a city-wide investigation," state media reported earlier Friday.

"I think there are all different uses cases, and I think it's so great to see people utilizing video chat to stay connected," Houseparty CEO Sima Sistani said.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced a new health order Friday requiring city residents and workers to wear face coverings at essential businesses and on public transportation.

The University of Chicago Medicine recruited 125 coronavirus patients into Gilead's two late-stage clinical trials, 113 of whom were severely ill.

Coca-cola, Netflix and dozens more report earnings, but markets will look more for news on reopening the economy in the week ahead.

The new site is convenient for folks who have an iPhone or iPad and normally use the Apple Music app but have otherwise not used the service on a Windows computer where they'd have to download and install Apple's famously sluggish iTunes software.

Stocks surged after a report said a Gilead Sciences drug was showing effectiveness in treating the coronavirus.

Britain's competition watchdog has provisionally cleared Amazon's investment in food delivery start-up Deliveroo.

Asian consumers are tightening their belts as they prepare for a coronavirus-induced hit to their finances. But growing confidence in China suggests there could be light at the end of the tunnel, according to a new study.

The NBA commissioner was the first to suspend games, land associates say he's embracing the challenge of how to get the league back in action.

The PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan talks about golf's return and what that will look like in the age of coronavirus.

NASA and SpaceX are targeting May 27 for the launch of Demo-2, the first crewed NASA launch in nearly a decade.

The new guidance ramps up pressure on governors to loosen their restrictions, even as health experts and business leaders alike warn that widespread testing systems are needed before Americans can safely start returning to their normal lives.

The Wuhan government said total confirmed infections in the city have been revised upwards by 325 to 50,333, while there are now 1,290 more deaths totaling 3,869, Xinhua News Agency reported.

The United Kingdom has extended by a month until the end of June the furlough scheme for workers at companies hurt by the coronavirus outbreak, finance minister Rishi Sunak said.

Remdesivir was one of the first medicines identified as a contender to treat Covid-19 given it showed promise in the past in treating SARS and MERS.