Top 10 world news today: Britain continues to struggle with coronavirus, and more!

After UK declared an extension of lockdown on Thursday, the country reported 847 new deaths in the last 24 hours due tocoronavirusas the total number of death toll rose to 14,576 on Friday.

Merkel had earlier said that shops up to 8,600 square feetwill be allowed to reopen if they abide by the 'hygiene rules'.

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As the disease brings much of the planet to a halt, scientists and health experts have called for technology to play a bigger part in tackling the pandemic.

The technology could serve as a measure for pre-testing whereby, the people with symptoms could be identified and further referred for testing.

After a downward spiral of the death rates, Friday's toll was the highest since Sunday's 619 death-mark.

Belarus has a peculiar problem - the President Alexander Lukashenko refuses to acknowledge the seriousness of COVID-19, along the lines of Brazilian, Mexican, and American leaders.

Obama warned in 2014, that we must be ready to deal with an epidemic.

Despite having relatively fewer coronavirus cases than the US and Europe but on Friday, Tokyo saw a surge in cases with over 201 people tested positive which has left the top brass concerned.

It is expected that his salary would rise to $2.80 eventually as Twitter has increased the limit of characters to 280 per tweet