SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Thousands of African, Haitian and Asian migrants bound for the United States have amassed in immigration shelters in Panama and Costa Rica as plans to relocate them to less crowded areas to lower the risk of spreading the coronavirus have faltered.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's deputy health minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell called on Saturday on all residents in Mexico to stay at home for a month, saying it was the only way to reduce the transmission rate of the coronavirus.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Saturday said his government will comply with a public consultation to halt the construction of U.S. brewer Constellation Brands Inc's more than $1 billion brewery project in the border city of Mexicali.

PANAMA CITY, March 28 (Reuters) - Panama's health ministry said on Saturday that it has confirmed 115 new coronavirus cases and three new deaths, bringing the total in the Central American nation to 901 cases and 17 deaths. (Reporting by Elida Moreno; Writing by Anthony Esposito; Editing by Daniel Wallis)

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - A cruise ship stuck off Panama's Pacific coast after four passengers died and more than 130 others developed influenza-like symptoms, including at least two with the coronavirus, will be allowed to proceed through the Panama Canal, the government said on Saturday.

PANAMA CITY, March 28 (Reuters) - Panama's government said on Saturday that it will allow Holland America Line's MS Zaandam cruise ship to pass through the Panama Canal, but that no passengers or crew members would be allowed to disembark in Panama. (Reporting by Elida Moreno, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's largest oil producer, Rosneft , said on Saturday it had terminated operations in Venezuela and sold the assets linked to its operations in the South American nation to an unnamed company owned by the Russian government.

MOSCOW, March 28 (Reuters) - Russia's largest oil producer, Rosneft, said on Saturday it had terminated operations in Venezuela and sold the assets linked to its operations in the South American nation to an unnamed company owned by the Russian government.

CARACAS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The former head of Venezuela's military intelligence unit, Hugo Carvajal, is discussing his possible surrender with U.S. authorities, three people familiar with the matter said on Saturday, after prosecutors charged him this week with drug trafficking alongside Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.