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Coronavirus live news: WHO hopes crisis can be over within two years; Italy records biggest daily infection rise since May
The latest developments in Australia. The premier of the Australian state of Queensland, Anastacia Palaszczuk has confirmed six more cases of Covid-19 at the Brisbane Youth Detention Centre, and another…
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‘We take no risks at all’: a voice from the Spanish flu outbreak
Does history repeat? Ask an ancestor. I was in hotel quarantine when I discovered a letter written in 1919 by my great-aunt Jean about her work as a voluntary aide…
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Nurses horrified by ‘weeks of neglect’ of woman from Covid-hit Melbourne nursing home
An elderly care home resident who was transferred to hospital from a facility that was beleaguered with Covid-19 died with 18 sores on her body and was suffering from “pure…
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Why did we expect aged care to cope amid Covid when it was struggling before it? | Sarah Russell
In 2018, soon after the federal government had announced yet another inquiry into aged care, I bumped into the health minister, Greg Hunt, who was jogging on the local boardwalk.…
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STA Travel becomes latest casualty of coronavirus crisis
STA Travel, which offered package tours for backpackers and adventurous young people, has become the latest business to cease trading because of the coronavirus pandemic. The travel company employed around…
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UK coronavirus: Wales to prioritise reopening schools; M&S sandwich supplier closes factory after outbreak – as it happened
That’s all from the UK blog today, as always you can continue reading over on our global coronavirus blog after Italy records its biggest daily infection rise since May. Thanks…
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Outsourcing firms miss 46% of Covid contacts in England’s worst-hit areas
Outsourcing companies leading the government’s flagship test-and-trace system have failed to reach nearly half of potentially exposed people in areas with the highest Covid infection rates in England, official figures…
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US coronavirus stimulus: in the end, it’s Americans who must pay for it
The US today not only looks ill, but dead broke. To offset the pandemic-induced economic downturn, the US Federal Reserve and Congress have marshalled staggering sums of stimulus spending, out…
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Coronavirus in Europe: dozens of schools report infections in Berlin
Coronavirus cases have been reported by at least 41 schools in Berlin, barely two weeks after the German capital’s 825 schools reopened. Cases are rising across Europe, including in Spain,…