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The US has surpassed the national tally of China with coronavirus cases standing at over 85,000.
It comes as over 519,000 tests were administered across many states, with the death toll rising beyond 1,200.
New York, New Orleans and other cities have seen an increase in hospitalisations, with many centres reporting shortages of supplies, staff and sick beds.
It comes President Donald Trump set up a "Easter deadline" for the country to return to work.
Meanwhile, China has recorded more than 81,000 cases, with Italy next on the tally with 80,589 cases.
The global tally has crossed 500,000, with more than 124,000 recoveries and over 24,000 deaths.
A preliminary report depicted confusion in the cockpit shortly before an Air India jetliner crashed, killing 260 people last month, after the plane's engine fuel cutoff switches almost simultaneously flipped, starving the engines of fuel.
US President Donald Trump defended the state and federal response to deadly flash flooding in Texas on Friday as he visited the stricken Hill Country region, where at least 120 people, including dozens of children, perished a week ago.
Russia pounded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles on Saturday, in the fourth major attack this month, targeting western cities and killing at least two people in Chernivtsi on the border with Romania.
Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters burned their weapons at the mouth of a cave in northern Iraq on Friday, marking a symbolic but significant step toward ending a decades-long armed conflict against Turkey.