The White House readied new guidelines Monday on coronavirus testing and reopening businesses as it sought to regain its footing after weeks of criticism and detours created in part by presidential sideshows. But U.S. President Donald Trump appeared reluctant to cede the spotlight.
Humour, theatre and the red card of a soccer referee are all being used to remind people to keep their distance to combat COVID-19.
Georgia on Monday will start allowing residents to dine inside restaurants or watch a movie at a theatre, as more U.S. states from Minnesota to Mississippi took steps to ease coronavirus restrictions despite the warnings of health experts.
Desperate business owners in Russia have been pleading with the Kremlin for help in the pandemic shutdown. The response, however, has been slower than they'd hoped and largely focused on big industries, leaving most smaller companies to fend for themselves.
Spanish authorities on Monday prepared to further loosen one of Europe's toughest coronavirus lockdowns and played down concerns that letting children outdoors after six weeks had led to crowds forming in public spaces.
Businesses hurt by the novel coronavirus shutdown hoped to tap into a new batch of small aid approved by Congress last week. During the first round, dozens of publicly traded companies and large corporations were able to tap into the Paycheck Protection Program.
South Africa's divisions over race and wealth inequality, which the COVID-19 crisis had briefly sidelined, returned to the fore on Monday's 26th anniversary of the end of apartheid.
Ontario is set to unveil its reopening plan this afternoon, a day after it announced that publicly funded schools in the province will remain closed until at least May 31. Quebec is also expected to release some details around reopening, including how it plans to proceed with schools.
Italy's Roman Catholic Church has reprimanded the government for not allowing the faithful to return to masses at the start of a gradual staged end to Europe's longest coronavirus lockdown.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged his lockdown-weary country to be patient Monday, arguing that easing social and economic restrictions too soon would create a second deadly spike of coronavirus infections.
