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Spain has suffered greatly from the coronavirus pandemic, with more than 17,200 deaths and 166,000 infections. But the country is now taking its first steps to loosen severe restrictions that forced businesses to shut.

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Worldwide Coronavirus Statistics:18,70,076 were infected; 1,16,052 have died and 4,41,323 have recovered.
*Data as per Monday 12:15.

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Bangladesh executed Abdul Majed, a former army officer convicted of assassinating its independence architect and first president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975, Saturday midnight. Majed was hanged at 12.01 am at the Dhaka Central Jail.

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Israel on Sunday approved a tight quarantine of several areas of Jerusalem, including the historic Old City, in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Israel’s health ministry has documented over 10,000 cases of the novel coronavirus and over 100 deaths.

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A small chloroquine study in Brazil was halted over the risk of fatal heart complications. Coronavirus patients who started taking a higher dose of the drug being touted by Trump developed irregular heart rates that increased their risk of a potentially fatal arrhythmia. (NYT)