1 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar = 1.0183 Danish Krone

1 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar = 3.7192 Czech Republic Koruna

1 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar = 84.1925 Costa Rican Colon

1 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar = 576.6126 Colombian Peso

1 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar = 1.0469 Chinese Yuan Renminbi

1 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar = 122.2043 Chilean Peso

1 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar = 0.1437 Swiss Franc

1 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar = 0.2074 Canadian Dollar

1 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar = 1.7971 Botswana Pula

1 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar = 0.8483 Brazilian Real

1 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar = 1.0204 Bolivian Boliviano

1 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar = 0.2091 Brunei Dollar

1 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar = 0.056 Bahraini Dinar

1 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar = 0.2672 Bulgarian Lev

1 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar = 12.5777 Bangladeshi Taka

1 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar = 0.2265 Australian Dollar

1 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar = 9.8368 Argentine Peso

1 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar = 0.2657 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar = 0.5436 United Arab Emirates Dirham

1 Swedish Krona = 0.6915 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar

1 Swedish Krona = 1511.8247 Indonesian Rupiah

1 Slovak Koruna = 0.3043 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar

1 Slovak Koruna = 665.2887 Indonesian Rupiah

1 Serbian Dinar = 0.0623 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar

1 Serbian Dinar = 136.2169 Indonesian Rupiah

[GroundUp] Doctors express concern that results are so late they are not clinically useful

[Daily Maverick] Pension fund fraudster, J Arthur Brown, is one of around 19,000 low-risk prison inmates set to be released as part of President Cyril Ramaphosa's Special Covid-19 parole dispensation.

[SAPS] A 35-year-old taxi driver is facing attempted murder charges (read with DMA Regulation 14(3) and in a quarantine site in Cape Town after he was stopped in a vehicle checkpoint (VCP) on the R61 in Beaufort West yesterday ferrying about seven passengers. The driver, who had apparently tested positive for the virus after taking a test on 30 April 2020 on the N2 Tsitsikamma roadblock in the Eastern Cape, was duly informed two days ago by the testing authority of the outcome of the test. Yet, he allegedly proce

[News24Wire] Gauteng premier David Makhura has threatened to close all businesses in the province that fail to comply with Level 4 lockdown regulations.

[GroundUp] Ronald Lamola, Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, said about 19,000 low-risk offenders may qualify to be released from prisons across the country, which will decrease the prison population by about 12%, reducing overcrowding.

[Daily Maverick] The Eastern Cape Department of Health has confirmed that 80 of a group of 188 seasonal farmworkers who returned to the province from the Western Cape over the past two weeks have tested positive for coronavirus. The taxis were 'intercepted' on the province's back roads near Elliotdale. Some drivers were allegedly in possession of fake permits. The positive test results come as nearly 10,000 people returned home during the window period allowed for interprovincial travel.

[Daily Maverick] In the context of a strained fiscus and a dysfunctional social security agency - freeing up private assets that are owed to poor and vulnerable individuals could also go a long way to supporting the increase in social welfare grants. It is in this context that the roughly R43-billion owed to just under 5 million people, many of them grant beneficiaries, should be viewed.

[New Frame] The government's professed reliance on science to justify its response to the pandemic reveals both its overconfidence and its insecurities about getting citizens to cooperate.

[News24Wire] Only offenders who committed petty crimes will be eligible to be included in the 19 000 inmates who will be released on parole to combat the spread of Covid-19 in prisons.

[RFI] South Africa's government will assist the authorities in Madagascar to test and analyse an unproven herbal treatment for Covid-19, according to health minister Zweli Mkhize. Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina is promoting a tea infusion based on the artemisia plant, praising its benefits in treating the coronavirus.

[News24Wire] While at least 19 000 inmates inside South Africa's prisons will be eligible for special parole to curb the spread of Covid-19, those sentenced for a range of serious crimes will not make the cut.

1 Polish Zloty = 1.6071 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar

1 Polish Zloty = 3513.5026 Indonesian Rupiah

1 Qatari Rial = 1.8559 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar

1 Qatari Rial = 4057.4671 Indonesian Rupiah

1 Indian Rupee = 0.0895 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar

1 Indian Rupee = 195.6638 Indonesian Rupiah

1 Pakistani Rupee = 0.0423 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar

1 Pakistani Rupee = 92.5362 Indonesian Rupiah

Researchers highlight risk of asymptomatic infection, as Europe begins easing lockdown

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More than 10 times as many people in Germany as thought may have been infected with coronavirus, researchers have said, as Italy led swathes of Europe out of lockdown and officials said the continent’s outbreak was mostly past its peak.

Researchers from Bonn University said on Monday that their preliminary study, based on fieldwork in the town of Gangelt in Heinsberg municipality, which had one of Germany’s highest death tolls, showed the risk of infection by asymptomatic carriers.

Coronavirus has infected more than 3.5 million people and caused nearly 250,000 deaths worldwide, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker.

China’s state broadcaster CCTV attacked the US secretary of state’s “insane and evasive remarks” on the origins of the pandemic. Mike Pompeo said there was “enormous evidence” to show the virus originated in a lab in China.

As Donald Trump presses states to reopen their economies, his administration is privately projecting daily deaths will almost double to about 3,000 by 1 June, according to an internal document seen by the New York Times.

Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, extended the country’s national state of emergency to 31 May, adding that he would consider lifting it earlier if experts decided that was possible based on regional infection trends.

World leaders, with the exception of Trump, stumped up nearly €7.4bn (£6.5bn) to research Covid-19 vaccines and therapies, pledging the money would also be used to distribute any vaccine to poor countries on time and equitably.

5 May 1986: Moscow has seen many Russians arriving by train from Kiev in the disaster area

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The first real signs of alarm among the Soviet public began to emerge over the weekend as Russians arriving by train from Kiev in the Chernobyl disaster area, began saying frankly that they were worried by radiation.

In the last two days large numbers of unescorted children have been arriving here from the city by train, to be met by relatives and grandparents.

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Lack of PPE cited as reason for mass infections – with suspicions deaths are not recorded

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For weeks, paramedic Dmitry Seryogin had warned about the lack of coronavirus testing and inadequate protective gear that he and his colleagues were given in the city of Oryol, about a four-hour drive south of Moscow. If a patient did not explicitly warn they had coronavirus, he said, teams handled likely infections in simple masks and gloves.

Then, the inevitable happened. Two of his colleagues fell ill with coronavirus, then five more, and now, Seryogin says, more than a dozen have contracted the virus. The regional governor has confirmed an outbreak at a medical station, saying staff had been quarantined and he had “set the goal of providing everyone with PPE. No matter where they are going, what kind of call”.

Related: Concern as coronavirus threatens Russia's closed ‘nuclear cities’

Victory Day celebrations are cancelled and referendum to reset Putin’s term limits put on hold

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If all had gone to plan, Vladimir Putin would have marked Victory Day in Red Square this weekend, hosting Emmanuel Macron and Xi Jinping as columns of soldiers and artillery passed by to honour the 75th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.

The 9 May celebrations would have crowned a historic political season in Russia, including a symbolic referendum to amend Russia’s constitution and reset Putin’s term limits, allowing him to remain in the Kremlin until 2036.

Related: Global report: Russia becomes Europe's coronavirus hotspot

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1 Sierra Leonean Leone = 0.0007 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar

1 Sierra Leonean Leone = 1.4983 Indonesian Rupiah