The Latest: Moscow residents to don masks, gloves next week

The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.

TOP OF THE HOUR:

— Moscow residents set to don masks, gloves next week.

— Turkey’s currency plunges to all-time low against dollar.

— Pompeo rebuffs German plea to reconsider WHO funding halt.

— Spain sees sharp drop in daily virus death toll from last month.

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MOSCOW -- Moscow residents will be required to wear masks and gloves when using public transit and visiting public spaces starting Tuesday because of the coronavirus.

The announcement by Mayor Sergei Sobyanin comes after the decision to reopen industrial plants and construction sites in the capital on that same day.

“Allowing more people to work, we understand that it will increase passenger traffic on the transport, increase the number of people who come in contact with each other, and it somehow needs to be compensated for,” Sobyanin said Thursday in an interview on the state-run Rossia 24 TV channel.

He added that as many as 2.5% of Moscow’s 12.7 million population -- some 300,000 people -- may be infected with the coronavirus.

Moscow has so far registered almost 93,000 confirmed cases of the virus -- more than half of the country’s total of 177,000 reported infections.

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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s currency has dropped to an all-time low against the dollar as the country struggles with the economic impact of the pandemic.

The Turkish lira fell to 7.26 against the dollar on Thursday, surpassing the previous record low of 7.24 reached during a currency crisis in August 2018.

The Turkish currency has lost 18% of...