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Kenya's Health minister Mutahi Kagwe announces the country's first confirmed case of new coronavirus, saying a woman who returned from the United States tested positive for the illness in Nairobi. SOUNDBITE
Indian authorities deploy medical teams to major entry points along its land border with Nepal as it steps up screening for the new coronavirus, days after a student tested positive for the deadly disease in Kathmandu, becoming the first South Asian country to report the virus. IMAGES
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine has said new Zika cases were not yet confirmed as being connected to the tourist hot spot. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Local health officials in Texas are calling the first known Zika infection to occur in the U.S. a "game changer," and suspect it was contracted through sex rather than a mosquito bite. Rough Cut (no reporter narration)
Activists gather outside the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) in Costa Rica's capital San Jose, where for the first time in its history, a case will be heard about the legality of denying a woman access to abortion services. A woman identified only as "Beatriz" is symbolically squaring off against the Central American country of El Salvador, which enforces an absolute ban on the procedure regardless of the fetus's health or any risk to the pregnant woman. IMAGES