WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration will use the Defense Production Act (DPA) on Tuesday for the first time, to procure some 60,000 test kits to aid against the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to a senior emergency management official.

Peter Gaynor, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told CNN that the administration had decided to use the law, which President Donald Trump recently said he would invoke, because "there's some test kits we need to get our hands on." (US-Coronavirus)

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UNITED NATIONS -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has asked leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) to help launch a stimulus package in the trillions of dollars to keep businesses, workers and households afloat in face of the coronavirus.

By the end of this year, the cost of this pandemic is likely to be measured in the trillions of dollars, Guterres told G20 leaders in a letter dated March 23. (UN-Virus-Response)

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MAPUTO -- The 64 bodies of Ethiopian migrants killed by asphyxiation in a container in Mozambique will be buried in the country, said authorities on Tuesday.

At least 64 migrants from Ethiopia died and another 14 survived in a container transported in Mozambique's northern province of Tete on Tuesday morning, local newspaper reported. (Mozambique-Ethiopians Death-Container)

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RIYADH -- The Saudi Arabian G20 Presidency will host the virtual G20 Summit in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on March 26, the G20 Saudi secretariat said on Tuesday.

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud will chair the meeting to advance a coordinated global response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its human and economic implications, it said in a statement. (Saudi Arabia-G20 Summit-COVID-19 Response) Enditem

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