A factory in Afghanistan is making personal protective equipment (PPE) for the first time.

The plan is to make five million affordable masks that cost a fraction of the imported ones.

Not only will this provide affordable protective equipment to people, but it is also providing job opportunities to Afghans hit hard by the pandemic.

Al Jazeera's Sara Khairat reports.

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US President Trump claims he has seen evidence that coronavirus originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China - but is “not allowed to tell”.

President Donald Trump says the United States is working very hard to come up with a vaccine for the coronavirus by the end of the year.

He also reiterated claims that China was responsible for the severity of the outbreak and said businesses in the US needed to get going once again, despite its increasing death toll of more than 67,000 from the coronavirus.

Al Jazeera’s Rob Reynolds reports.

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Some Asian countries have begun lifting restrictions after spending weeks in strict lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic.

Malaysia has allowed the majority of businesses to open with health and sanitation precautions and social distancing a must.

Arisina Ma is a doctor and president of the Hong Kong Public Doctors' Association. She joins Al Jazeera on Skype from Hong Kong.

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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro attacked Congress and the courts as he urged his right-wing supporters to rally against coronavirus curbs as he fights for his political survival,

The country has reported more than 100,000 infections nationwide from COVID-19 and in the Amazon state capital Manaus, hospitals are overwhelmed with more than 100 people dying from the disease per day.

Al Jazeera’s Alessandro Rampietti reports.

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The latest virus figures for Europe suggest that some of its worst-affected countries are starting to turn a corner.

But that is not the case in Russia, where another 10,500 people have tested positive in the last 24 hours.

Al Jazeera’s Sonia Gallego reports.

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Ramadan meals are served drive-through style outside a mosque in Virginia amid the coronavirus lockdown.

After losing both forearms in an accident decades ago, this Chinese veteran is now making affordable prosthetic limbs for fellow amputees.

Over the weekend, the ISIL (ISIS) group conducted several coordinated attacks in Iraq's Salahuddin province, killing at least 14 members of a paramilitary group known as the Popular Mobilisation Forces or Hashd al-Shaabi.

The group's commander says it is being neglected over sectarian issues. He also said the area was poorly reinforced as resources get diverted to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

Al Jazeera’s Simona Foltyn reports from Mekeeshfah in the northern Iraqi province of Salahuddin.

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The World Health Organization is warning that Madagascar's herbal tonic its president claims can cure patients of COVID-19 has no scientific basis.

Other African countries such as Tanzania and Guinea-Bissau have made plans to import the tonic, which contains the

artemisia plant, which is normally used to treat malaria.

Al Jazeera’s Laura Burdon-Manley reports.

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