Berlin officials say 200,000 masks have been diverted to the US under a law invoked by Donald Trump.

The US president says he is confident American hospitals will have enough ventilators to cope.

He says social distancing should continue until at least 30 April as the crisis is set to peak soon.

While the supply of raw materials from China is recovering after a month of suspension, textile and garment businesses find that they have moved out of the frying pan into the fire as the COVID-19 pandemic

The grim milestone came as Donald Trump predicted the US would get back to work "pretty quickly".

With Vietnam’s main agro-forestry-fishery export markets after China such as the US and Europe being hit by the new coronavirus-caused acute respiratory disease (COVID-19), Vietnamese exporters are suffering.

Health officials are warning people not to self-medicate with the common malaria drug.

As conservative voices warn of damage to the economy, the president reassesses restrictions.

The country expands restrictions on social interaction as Chancellor Merkel goes into quarantine.

Two US Navy hospital ships will also be sent to help relieve an expected shortage of sick beds.

The Pentagon pledges to make available masks and respirators, as New York City considers a lockdown.

A group of healthy, young volunteers in Seattle are being given the experimental jab.

In his first tweet the billionaire said 500,000 testing kits and one million masks were going to the US.

The move to combat the impact of coronavirus is a co-ordinated action with Europe, Japan and Canada.

"Let's admit it," said top health official Anthony Fauci. "The system is not geared to what we need."

The town of New Rochelle has a significant cluster of virus cases, according to New York officials.

A 71-year-old man, who was on a cruise ship last month, dies in a hospital near Sacramento.

A joint military exercise between the Philippines and the US will push through as scheduled, despite the former’s decision to terminate the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), the spokesman of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said on March 4.

The deaths have occurred close to the city of Seattle and are the only Covid-19 fatalities on US soil.

The United States, which accounted for 50% of Vietnam’s total export turnover from wood and wooden products last year, firmly remains the largest buyer of Vietnam's wood products.