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Covering covid-19 in Africa: ‘The virus cannot stop this life and energy’
In the evening I went for a run, down to the gate from my guesthouse, past a huddle of round huts and through the fields of sugar cane to the…
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Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watch online
The Twits One has mouldy cereal in his beard; the other has a possible case of the dreaded shrinks. Their domestic life involves frogs in the bedsheets, wormy spaghetti and…
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England’s criminal justice system was on its knees long before coronavirus | Mike McConville and Luke Marsh
If there is truth in the aphorism that “justice delayed is justice denied”, the current backlog of criminal cases in England and Wales should leave us wondering about the capacity…
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Chinese drug firm Sinovac says thousands of employees and their families have been given its Covid-19 vaccine
Almost all the employees of a Chinese drug company and their families have been given its experimental coronavirus vaccine, the firm said on Sunday.The CoronaVac vaccine developed by Sinovac Biotech,…
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The commuter is an English archetype – but for how much longer? | John Harris
An unexpected new national stereotype has emerged with coronavirus. We are allegedly in a new era of “work-from-home buyers”: people who are determined to minimise the amount of time they…
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How much did the Covid-19 lockdown really cost the UK? | Larry Elliott
Cancer treatments cancelled. Children deprived of schooling. More cases of domestic abuse. Continued restrictions on personal freedom. Over and above the direct damage caused to the economy, the collateral damage…
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Indian gypsy dancers from Rajasthan take their art online, despite poor internet and electricity connections
As a blackout plunged her desert dwelling into darkness, Suwa Devi, a dancer belonging to India’s Kalbeliya gypsy community, asked her neighbour to turn on his jeep’s headlights so she…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong to test more than 7,000 inmates after two detainees among 21 new cases
Hong Kong will test more than 7,000 inmates for the coronavirus after two detainees were among 21 new cases confirmed on Sunday, undertaking a complex logistical challenge that will require…
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Melbourne, facing third coronavirus wave, extends lockdown
Australian officials on Sunday extended a strict virus lockdown of the country’s second-biggest city by two weeks, saying new cases had not dropped enough to prevent another spike.Melbourne residents were…
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Coronavirus live news: Victoria awaits lockdown decision; anti-mask protests held in Europe
Hi, Helen Sullivan here. I’ll be bringing you the most important information from Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ press conference live in ten minutes’ time. A reminder that you can find…