A six-week-old baby with Covid-19 has died and global agencies have warned of food shortages as coronavirus infections around the world near one million.
Governments expanded lockdowns to affect about half of the planet, with funeral parties banned in the Democratic Republic of Congo, New York locking up its famed street basketball courts, and hard-hit Italy extending its economically-crippling lockdown until 13 April.
More than 900,000 people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and nearly 46,000 have died since it first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year, according to an AFP tally.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), said the number would hit one million "in the next few