The AP plans the following coverage today of the virus outbreak. For up-to-the minute information, visit AP Newsroom’s coverage hub Find AP Virus Alerts here

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VIRUS OUTBREAK: An ambitious international project to deliver coronavirus vaccines to the world’s poorest people is facing potential shortages of money, cargo planes, refrigeration and vaccines themselves. SENT; developing. With VIRUS OUTBREAK-THE LATEST.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS: The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits declined last week to a still-high 837,000, evidence that the economy is struggling to sustain a tentative recovery that began this summer. SENT: 870 words, photos.

GLOBAL ECONOMY-JOBS: Unemployment rose for the fifth straight month in Europe amid concern that extensive government support programs won’t be able keep many businesses hit by coronavirus restrictions afloat forever. SENT: 850 words, photos.

FINANCIAL MARKETS: Stock indexes ended higher after another day of back-and-forth trading as Wall Street waits to see if Washington can get past its partisanship to deliver more support for the economy. SENT: 720 words, photos.

AIRLINES-JOBS: Thousands of airline employees are getting furloughed while the companies wait to see if they will get more money from taxpayers. SENT; developing.

FLU VACCINE: October is prime time for flu vaccinations, and the U.S. and Europe are gearing up for what experts hope is high demand as countries seek to avoid a “twindemic” with COVID-19. SENT: 1050 words, photo.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-CONGRESS: The White House is backing a $400 per week pandemic jobless benefit and is dangling the possibility of a COVID-19 relief bill with a price tag above $1.5 trillion in last-ditch, pre-election negotiations. SENT; developing.

ELECTION 2020-WISCONSIN-TRUMP: President Donald Trump canceled a planned appearance in western Wisconsin amid calls from the city’s mayor and the state’s governor, both Democrats, that he not hold a rally amid a surge in coronavirus cases. SENT; developing.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-PFIZER VACCINE-TRUMP: The head of Pfizer, one of the drugmakers racing to develop a coronavirus vaccine, told employees he was disappointed that its work was politicized during this week’s presidential debate and tried to reassure U.S. staff that the company won’t bend to pressure to move more quickly. SENT; developing.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-SCHOOLS-VIRUS TESTS: The nation’s two largest school districts are rolling out ambitious and costly plans to test students and staff for the coronavirus. New York City is set to begin testing 10% to 20% of students and staff in every building monthly beginning Thursday, the same day the final wave of the district’s more than 1 million students begin returning to brick-and-mortar classrooms. SENT: 960 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-SPAIN: Madrid and its suburbs are preparing to enter a soft lockdown that restricts trips in and out of the Spanish capital following a weeks-long political turf fight over Europe’s latest infection hot spot. SENT: 860 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-FRANCE: With COVID-19 patients now filling about one-third of the intensive care units in the Paris area, France’s health minister is threatening to close bars and ban family gatherings, if the situation doesn’t improve. SENT: 400 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-BRITAIN: Britain has imposed tighter restrictions on social gatherings in the port city of Liverpool and three towns as scientists estimate the number of COVID-19 cases in England has quadrupled in the last month. SENT: 750 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-CZECH: A record surge of new coronavirus infections in the Czech Republic in September has been followed by a record number of virus patients being hospitalized, putting the nation’s health care system under serious pressure for the first time in the pandemic. SENT: 570 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-SOUTH AFRICA-INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS RESUME: South Africa has reopened to international flights, ending a more than six-month ban on international travel that was part of its restrictions to combat the spread of COVID-19. SENT: 470 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-PERU-PISCO: In Peru, more than 500 producers of pisco, the grape brandy of South America’s Pacific coast, have seen their sales drop by more than 50% during the pandemic. SENT: 740 words, photos.

CHINA-DOMESTIC TRAVEL: Millions of Chinese tourists usually would use their week-long National Day holidays to travel abroad. This year, they will be staying closer to home. SENT: 720 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-ASIA: India has reported more than 86,000 new coronaviruses cases and another 1,181 fatalities in the past day. The new figures make September the country’s worst month of the pandemic, when 41% of total cases and 34% of fatalities were added. SENT; developing.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-VIRAL QUESTIONS-AEROSOLS: Can the coronavirus travel more than 6 feet in the air? Research indicates it can, but it’s not clear how much spread is caused by such cases. SENT: 240 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-ONE GOOD THING-FOUL BALLS: It began when lifelong baseball fan and friend Kimberlee MacVicar mentioned that at 52 she had never secured a treasured foul ball. The next day, she had a Mark Canha ball on her doorstep. This sparked an idea: share foul balls to bring joy to those who can’t go to the ballpark because of COVID-19, brightening my own days while doing it. SENT: 640 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-NFL: The Tennessee Titans find themselves back in a waiting mode hoping the NFL allows them back inside their headquarters by Tuesday with their game against the Pittsburgh Steelers postponed until later this season by the league’s first COVID-19 outbreak.SENT: 810 words, photos.

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VIRUS OUTBREAK-BELARUS VACCINE: Belarus has started giving shots to volunteers in human trials of Russia’s coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V, which received Russian government approval in August but drew considerable criticism from experts, as it had only been tested on several dozen people. SENT: 500 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-GREECE: Greek police have used tear gas to disperse violently protesting high school students who have organized scores of school strikes in response to classroom overcrowding during the coronavirus pandemic. SENT: 340 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-TURKEY: Turkey’s government is being accused of hiding the true extent of the coronavirus outbreak in the country after the health minister revealed that the daily COVID-19 figures published by his ministry only reflect patients with symptoms and not all positive cases. SENT: 390 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-CRUISES: Carnival Cruise Line is canceling most U.S. sailings through the end of this year. It’s the latest sign that the cruise industry’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic could still be many months away. SENT: 290 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-COLLEGE FOOTBALL PARTIES: Police say several parties and large gatherings coinciding with the University of South Carolina’s football game had to be broken up Saturday as people celebrated the first game of the season. SENT: 190 words.

INTERACTIVES/GRAPHICS:

-Virus Global Spread (Interactive): The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus has eclipsed 1 million. This digital embed allows users to track the day-to-day data behind this tragic milestone nine months into this crisis.

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-US cases county-by-county. Embed code can be found in Coverage Plan. A static graphic also will be available in AP Newsroom.

-State trends (table): Trends in new cases and positivity rates for each U.S. state over the past 14 days.

-Case count (table): Searchable table of confirmed cases, including recoveries and deaths, by country, updated each hour.

-Interactive breakdown of unemployment filings by state with time scale for each (going back as far as 2000)

-Virus Europe Spread (map): An auto updating European map tracking the total confirmed cases, recoveries and deaths from coronavirus.

Additional graphics and interactives include:

- Flattening the Coronavirus Curve (Chart): Chart compares the cumulative cases over time in some of the hardest hit countries by coronavirus.

-Virus Global Spread (table): Table of countries which have confirmed cases of the virus. Table also includes when the virus was initially reported and the number of deaths by country.

-Virus US State Map: State by state count of confirmed cases in the U.S.

-Virus US State Table: Table tracks the number of cases, recoveries and deaths for the US including its territories.

-Status of Cases Worldwide: Auto-updating once a day, this chart tracks the levels of active cases and deaths from COVID-19 around the world over time.

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