8.09 am: As harvest season looms, how will the coronavirus lockdown affect agriculture? Read more here 7.59 am: United States President...

8.09 am: As harvest season looms, how will the coronavirus lockdown affect agriculture?
7.59 am: United States President Donald Trump has refused to issue a national stay-at-home order, saying that different states have different levels of coronavirus cases. “States are different and I understand that the governor of Florida, great Governor Ron DeSantis issued one today and that’s good, that’s great,” he said on Wednesday afternoon. “But there are some states that are different. There are some states that don’t have much of a problem.”
7.57 am: In Spain, 864 coronavirus patients have died on Wednesday – the highest in one day, as the total number of deaths across Europe has risen beyond 30,000, reports BBC.
7.55 am: Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro removes online video of shortages at a market due to Covid-19 after local journalists found the market to be well-stocked, reports AFP.
7.50 am: Toll in the United States in the past 24 hours hits a one-day record of 884 and new cases exceed 25,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.
#UPDATE US death toll in past 24 hours hits new one-day record of 884 and new known cases exceed 25,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.#Coronavirus infections around the world near one million https://t.co/rCaz2cClwT
— AFP news agency (@AFP) April 2, 2020
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