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UK coronavirus: lockdown laws still not implemented four days after Manchester restrictions — as it happened
80% of Greater Manchester infections in the last week were in the white community. The declaration of a major incident in Greater Manchester should jolt a “complacent white middle class”…
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The Guardian view on local leadership in the pandemic: power down | Editorial
Almost 1,200km divide the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England, from the town of Thurso in northern Scotland. The UK is the third most populous country in…
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Jobs blow as DW Sports and Hays Travel announcements affect 2,600
Almost 2,600 staff in the beleaguered retail and leisure industries face redundancy after the fitness and gymwear firm DW Sports collapsed and the tour operator Hays Travel announced job cuts,…
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Victoria’s contact-tracing effort buckles under the weight of Covid-19 cases
Victoria’s rise in Covid-19 case numbers is occurring so rapidly that contact tracing can no longer be relied upon to unearth all potential clusters in the state, according to epidemiologists…
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Property group Hammerson looks at possible rights issue
The property group Hammerson, which owns shopping centres including the Bullring in Birmingham and Brent Cross in north London, is drawing up plans for a possible rights issue and is…
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Survivors of Covid-19 show increased rate of psychiatric disorders, study finds
More than half of people who received hospital treatment for Covid-19 were found to be suffering from a psychiatric disorder a month later, a study has found. Out of 402…
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Trump calls Birx’s dire warning on widespread coronavirus in the US ‘pathetic’
Donald Trump publicly rebuked a second member of the White House coronavirus taskforce on Monday morning, calling Deborah Birx’s assessment of Covid-19’s spread “pathetic” in a tweet. Birx warned on…
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Coronavirus outbreak on Norway cruise ship sparks fears of wider spread as firm Hurtigruten halts ‘expedition’ voyages
Norwegian cruise line Hurtigruten is halting all its so-called expedition cruises until further notice following an outbreak of Covid-19 on one of its vessels last week, the company said on…
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English pubs likely to be spared new Covid-19 restrictions, No 10 says
English pubs are likely to be spared any new restrictions on social contact to stem coronavirus outbreaks, with the focus instead falling on limiting gatherings in homes, Downing Street has…
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Manchester Covid outbreak ‘a warning to complacent white middle class’
The declaration of a major incident in Greater Manchester should jolt a “complacent white middle class” into realising that Covid-19 is not just spreading in ethnic minority households, one of…