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Coronavirus live news: calls for party ban in Germany to curb cases; ex-Ukraine PM ‘seriously ill with Covid’
Here is the full story on Trump’s plasma treatment announcement: After expressing frustration at the slow pace of approval for coronavirus treatments, and causing controversy by publicly linking the Food…
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Coronavirus: Trump authorizes plasma treatment amid attacks on FDA
After expressing frustration at the slow pace of approval for coronavirus treatments, and causing controversy by publicly linking the Food and Drug Administration to the “deep state” conspiracy theory, Donald…
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Hong Kong third wave: government must be sensitive to the average person’s plight
The good news is that the third wave of Covid-19 infections seems to be ebbing. On the whole, Hong Kong has done a spectacular job. And it did so under…
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China’s power bank sharing industry took a hit from Covid-19, but it’s not out of juice yet
Renting power banks at restaurants or stores used to be part of Timothy Chen’s routine whenever he was out and found his iPhone running out of juice.“I don’t want to…
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Boris Johnson moves to seize control of schools agenda after exams chaos
Boris Johnson attempted to reassert his grip over education after days of chaos by making a personal plea to parents to send their children back to the classroom in England…
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Covid job losses could widen England’s north-south divide – study
England’s north-south divide could be made worse by coronavirus’s impact on the economy, with the most vulnerable sectors such as retail and manufacturing dominating the jobs market in certain regions.…
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‘Stealth tax’: Labour attacks £15m spent on workers’ visas by NHS
NHS hospitals have been spending millions of pounds a year on government charges to bring in much-needed staff from abroad, it has emerged. NHS trusts in England have spent at…
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57 per cent of Republican voters say US coronavirus death tally – now over 176,000 – is ‘acceptable’, poll shows
The vast majority of Republican voters approve of the US economy’s state and how the government handled the coronavirus, saying the level of deaths has been “acceptable”, a new poll…
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Coronavirus: FDA authorises plasma treatment over scientists’ objections
This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Zachary Brenann and Sarah Owermohle on politico.com on August 23, 2020.The US Food and Drug…