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Monica Carfora, right, deputy head of the emergency of the Santo Spirito Hospital, which now has a separate emergency for possible covid patients, holds a chocolate Easter egg as she poses for a photograph with nurse Silvia Sforza, holding out their arms to indicating social distancing, outside the entrance to for covid emergency, in central Rome, Sunday, April, 12, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Coronavirus hits Italy, Spain, France harder than U.S.

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot wears a mask as she attends a news conference in Hall A of the COVID-19 alternate site at McCormick Place in Chicago, Friday, April 10, 2020. The "alternative care facility" is designed to relieve pressure on city hospitals from rapidly mounting COVID-19 cases. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Chicago, Midwest brace for coronavirus surge as U.S. death toll tops 20,000

By Kathleen Foody, Amy Forliti and Geir Moulson - Associated Press

In this March 31, 2020 file photo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at the USTA Indoor Training Center. On April 11, 2020, Mr. de Blasio announced the city's public schools would remain closed through the end of the academic year. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File) **FILE**

What you need to know today about the virus outbreak

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Amid coronavirus concerns, a healthcare worker takes the temperature of a visitor to Essentia Health who was crossing over a skywalk bridge from the adjoining parking deck, Friday, April 10, 2020, in Duluth, Minn. (Alex Kormann/Star Tribune via AP)

20,000: US death toll overtakes Italy’s as Midwest braces

By KATHLEEN FOODY and AMY FORLITI and GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 22, 2020 file photo, Italian soldiers patrol by closed shops due to lockdown measure to prevent the spread of Covid-19, in Milan, Italy. Italy was the first Western democracy to be hit by the virus, and it has suffered the most deaths of any nation, nearly 14,000, now it is likely to set an example of how to lift restrictions that have imposed the harshest peacetime limits on personal freedom and shut down all non-essential industry. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

Italy begins to grapple with how to ease virus restrictions

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 2, 2020 file photo, Don Angelo Riva celebrates a mass in an empty church in Carenno, Italy. The circle of contagion around the Italian priest couldn’t have been tighter, the pain of watching those near him fall to the virus no more of a spiritual assault. Within two weeks of sitting with his parents and a fellow priest at lunch, the Rev. Angelo Riva was grieving the deaths of both his father and the colleague who assisted him at three mountain parishes above Lake Como. As Easter approached, Riva prepared for his mother to die, too. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

As Easter nears, virus deaths test Italian priest’s faith

By COLLEEN BARRY and BRIAN HENDRIE - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, file photo Eurogroup President and Portugal's Finance Minister Mario Centeno, third left, meets with European Council President Charles Michel, second right, at the Europa building in Brussels. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, Pool, File)

Europeans reach tentative coronavirus economic rescue deal after acrimonious week

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Pope Francis lies down in prayer prior to celebrate Mass for the Passion of Christ, at St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Friday, April 10, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, Pool)

Doctors, nurses in Good Friday procession at Vatican

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Doctors tend to a coronavirus patient in the intensive care unit at "Ospedale di Circolo" hospital, in Varese, Italy, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Italian P.M. Conte defends handling of coronavirus crisis: ‘Going back, I would do the same’

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Pope Francis attends a Mass for Holy Thursday, inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Thursday, April 9, 2020. Francis celebrated the Holy Week Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, which was largely empty of faithful because of restrictions aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Alessandro Di Meo/Pool Photo via AP)

Pope hails priests, health workers as ‘the saints next door’

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

A food delivery rider passes by a banner reading ' Stronger together, all together we will make it ', in Milan, Italy, Sunday, April 5, 2020. The government is demanding Italians stay home and not take the leveling off of new coronavirus infections as a sign the emergency is over, following evidence that more and more Italians are relaxing restrictions the west’s first and most extreme nationwide lockdown and production shutdown. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

Cracks in Europe’s shared currency reappear in virus crisis

By DAVID McHUGH - Associated Press

People play instruments as other dance on their balconies in support of the medical staff that are working on the COVID-19 virus outbreak in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, April 5, 2020. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced that he would ask the Parliament to extend the state of emergency by two more weeks, taking the lockdown on mobility until April 26. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Virus pain easing in Spain, Italy; UK braces for bleak days

By ARITZ PARRA and DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

In this March 26, 2020, file photo, Garrett Ward sprays disinfectant on a conveyor belt between checking out shoppers behind a plexiglass panel at a Hy-Vee grocery store in Overland Park, Kan. From South Africa to Italy to the U.S., grocery workers — many in low-wage jobs — are manning the front lines amid worldwide lockdowns, their work deemed essential to keep food and critical goods flowing. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Grocery workers are key during the coronavirus crisis — and they’re afraid

By Jim Vertuno - Associated Press

In this Monday, March 23, 3030 photo, a policeman urges residents not to come out of their homes as residents stand behind a gate, hours after the second death from COVID-19 was confirmed from the area, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. For most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia and death. (AP Photo/Al-emrun Garjon)

The Latest: Nearly 3,000 released from Sri Lanka prisons

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Couple’s wedding in Italy on hold amid coronavirus outbreak

By ST. CLAIRE DONAGHY and The Index-Journal - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 22, 2020 file photo distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, a military truck loads medical supplies for Italy on a board of an Il-76 cargo plane in Chkalovsky military airport outside Moscow, Russia. From tiny San Marino wedged next to two of Italy's hardest-hit provinces in the coronavirus outbreak to more economically powerful nations like Italy, countries are running up against export bans and seizures in the scramble for vital medical supplies. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Alexei Yereshko, Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Scramble for virus supplies strains global solidarity

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Wednesday April 1, 2020, aid workers from the Spanish NGO Open Arms carry out coronavirus detection tests on the elderly at a nursing home in Barcelona, Spain. The initiative is part of a clinical trial led by doctors Oriol Mitja and Bonaventura Clotet, from the Lluita Foundation against AIDS and the Germans Trias Hospital, focused on cutting down virus transmission. Spain has seen Thursday a new record in virus-related fatalities that came as the country is seeing the growth of contagion waning, health ministry data showed placing Spain neck to neck with Italy, the country that saw the worst outbreak in Europe. The COVID-19 coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.(AP Photo/Santi Palacios)

From Washington, Spanish, Italian ambassadors see tragedy and opportunity in virus crisis

By Madison Hirneisen - The Washington Times

A view of the empty Mapei stadium as the Serie A soccer match between Sassuolo and Brescia is being played behind closed doors, in Reggio Emilia, Monday, March 9, 2020. Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte says he is restricting travel nationwide to try to stop the spread of the new coronavirus. Conte said Monday night a new government decree will require all people in Italy to demonstrate they need to work, have health conditions or other limited legitimate reasons to travel outside their home areas. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)

Brescia ready to forfeit matches if Italian season resumes

Associated Press

An ambulance and a Carabinieri car are parked in front of the ancient Colosseum in Rome Tuesday, March 31, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Italy says EU has abandoned them during coronavirus pandemic

By Eric J. Lyman - Special to The Washington Times

In this March 23, 2020, file photo, medical employees demonstrate testing, at a coronavirus test center for public service employees, during a media presentation in Munich, Germany. Labs were quick to ramp up their testing capacity and now experts say up to 500,000 tests can be conducted in Germany per week. That quick work, coupled with the country's large number of intensive care unit beds and its early implementation of social distancing measures, could be behind Germany's relatively low death toll. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Mass testing, empty ICUs: Germany scores early against virus

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press