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Staying with the US for now, here is a summary of the latest developments:

In New York city, where mayor Bill de Blasio said earlier that he had asked the federal government to deliver 400 more ventilators to city hospitals by Wednesday and warned that without reinforcements the city will run out of masks, gowns and other hospital supplies in a week, a 68-bed field hospital is being built in Manhattan’s Central Park.

Samaritan’s Purse, a charity run by Christian evangelical preacher Franklin Graham, built a similar temporary facility in Italy to help deal with the crisis there.

He said the New York City version could be up and running Tuesday.

I’m in Central Park - they’re building field hospitals for coronavirus patients pic.twitter.com/agpcmVNnXh

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