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Italian health officials announced Tuesday evening that a modest drop in new cases of the coronavirus is cause for cautious hope that the countrywide lockdown may be having an effect.

In the last 24 hours, 349 people have died in Italy from the Chinese coronavirus, bringing the nation’s death toll to 2,158 on Monday, from 1,809 a day earlier.

An Italian mayor says that his city’s crematory is now “unable to dispose of all the work it has to do,” as there have been so many bodies of those who have died due to the coronavirus.

Singers Katy Perry, Madonna, and Cheryl all appear to have been tricked, sharing doctored videos on social media of Italians on coronavirus lockdown in their homes singing popular songs from their windows.

In the last 24 hours, 368 people have died in Italy from the coronavirus, bringing the nation’s death toll to 1,809 from 1,441 a day earlier — a 25 percent increase and the highest daily death toll Italy has seen yet.

A video posted to social media on Saturday shows a man flipping through an Italian newspaper to show the obituaries of Italians who have died from the coronavirus in just one city in northern Italy.

The Italian government has required the public to fill out paperwork in order to leave their own homes, as the country remains under lockdown.

Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to have issues with his teeth again Tuesday night as he delivered a victory speech.

The prison riots in Italy have resulted in at least eight deaths, beatings of guards, prison escapes, and fires being set to the penitentiaries.

Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte announced on Monday that he is expanding travel restrictions to encapsulate the entire country in an attempt to stop the coronavirus from continuing to proliferate throughout the nation and beyond.

Three inmates died during a riot that broke out over the coronavirus at a prison in Modena, Italy, on Sunday afternoon. In Pavia, Italy, two prison guards were taken hostage and beaten during a separate revolt at another prison.

Data revealed on Sunday shows that Italy now has the highest number of Chinese coronavirus cases in the world outside of its origin country, a day after the Italian government placed an entire northern region on lockdown and deaths jumped 57 percent.

The owner of a grocery store in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta was widely praised across social media after refusing to panic about the coronavirus outbreak, which was officially confirmed as active in Indonesia on Monday.

All of Italy’s regions are now infected with the coronavirus, according to the head of Italy’s Civil Protection, Angelo Borrelli, who provided the latest data during a press conference on Thursday.

Democrat legislators want President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to comply with pro-transgender rules set by President Barack Obama in 2015.

The president of Italy’s Lombardy region announced that he will quarantine himself after discovering that one of his staff members tested positive for the coronavirus.

Health authorities in Nigeria on Thursday confirmed the country’s first case of the deadly coronavirus disease, meaning the virus has now spread to the most populous state on the African continent. 

The first confirmed case of Chinese coronavirus in Latin America is triggering concern across socialist Venezuela, whose healthcare system is dismally ill-prepared to handle the challenge of a mass health epidemic.

Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo ordered the closure of all elementary, middle and high schools on Thursday until the beginning of the country’s spring holidays in late March in a bid to contain the outbreak of the coronavirus.

The most likely explanation for the origin of the coronavirus outbreak relates to a biological weapons laboratory in Wuhan, China, said Steven Mosher, expert on China and author of Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order.

The number of confirmed Coronavirus cases in Italy has risen to 283, local media reported Tuesday, while the death toll now stands at seven.

Taken together, only a fool would believe Hillary doesn’t have some serious health issues, and only a liar would claim she’s “vigorous.”   

The Pentagon on Monday afternoon updated its numbers on how many U.S. service members suffered from mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) after Iran fired ballistic missiles at an Iraqi base where they were stationed.

During ABC News’s 2020 Democrat Debate on Friday evening, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, falsely claimed he never called for “decriminalizing all drugs,” though his website explicitly states that position as his plan for tackling the opioid crisis. 

The Chinese Communist Party placed renowned professor under “close surveillance” after publishing an article criticizing the Communist Party and its leader Xi Jinping over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak, The South China Morning Post reported Thursday.

The ongoing Chinese coronavirus epidemic has now reached Africa, with at least four countries reporting suspected cases of the disease across the continent as of Monday. 

Asian countries including Indonesia and the Philippines remain fearful of suspending visa-free entry for Chinese citizens amid the outbreak of the contagious coronavirus because they do not want to endanger their close economic and political relationship with Beijing. 

Millions of Chinese people tuned in on Tuesday to a live stream of workers constructing two new hospitals built specifically to combat the deadly coronavirus outbreak in the city of Wuhan.

Taiwan’s Department of Health this weekend began fining people for failing to report flu-like symptoms to local health authorities. Authorities fined an infected man who returned from the Chinese city of Wuhan where the coronavirus epidemic recently broke out.

Chinese state media claimed in several effusive pieces on Thursday that residents of Wuhan, the origin city of a deadly new coronavirus, remain full of “caution and optimism” that local health authorities will successfully prevent it from spreading.

Ordinary Americans must not use biological science when deciding which athletes should be assigned to men’s or women’s athletic competitions, says a credentialed law professor at Georgetown University.

An “emergency” exhibition titled “Abortion Is Normal” has opened at the Eva Presenhuber gallery in New York City, the proceeds of which will benefit Planned Parenthood’s political action efforts.

As Americans usher in 2020, millions say they are making a New Year’s resolution to improve their finances.

Transgender activists want to define women as “womxn” to blur and hide the biology-based cultural and legal distinctions between men and women.

A female-to-male trans man and their “non-binary” partner have had a baby in Brighton, England — assisted by a trans doctor and a male-to-female trans woman sperm donor.

A senior government official in the Hong Kong’s Beijing-backed government claimed on Wednesday that smoke emanating from barbeques is more toxic than tear gas used by security forces against the city’s pro-democracy demonstrators.