A study suggests that COVID may have appeared in Italy earlier than thought.
In France, the fines for bookshops that have remained opened despite virus restrictions are to be paid by authors.
Brazil is voting in local polls marked by the virus.
Here are the latest global developments regarding the coronavirus.
The Health Minister has inaugurated a corona management centre at RIU.
This is the coronavirus toll at 1100 GMT Friday.
Greece has shut down all schools as hospitals are overwhelmed.
Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari is likely to become engaged soon.
Uzbekistan has delayed the first post-Soviet census over the corona virus.
A German school has found a DIY answer to anti-virus ventilation.