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Daily updates on English Covid-19 deaths paused amid accuracy concerns
Daily updates on the coronavirus death toll in England have been paused amid growing concern that the numbers could have been exaggerated. A message on the government’s website on Saturday…
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English councils hope new powers will help avert local lockdowns
Councils in England have been given fresh powers to shut down shops and events to help prevent coronavirus outbreaks and avert local lockdowns. Boris Johnson said on Friday that local…
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He fought the plague in China and inspired six descendants to be doctors like him – the legacy of Wu Lien-teh
As the visitors entered the town, they could sense an air of tenseness and foreboding among the inhabitants,” my great-grandfather, Dr Wu Lien-teh, wrote of his experience arriving in Harbin…
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In these hard times, restaurant no shows aren’t just rude – they’re fatal | Sam Wydymus
After months confined to our home kitchens, you’d think there would be a lot of love for restaurants. You’d think the idea of someone else cooking your meal, pouring your…
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I used to think clothes mattered. Now I am part Miss Havisham, part Jess Glynne | Hadley Freeman
People laughed at last week’s story about pop singer Jess Glynne being denied entry to a restaurant called Sexy Fish, and not just because she wanted to go to a…
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Can we call a truce in the culture wars? We’ve never needed each other more | Zoe Williams
I used to listen to true-crime podcasts, where all the ads are for surveillance systems and DNA tests for your pet. I was hooked on those, bingeing on them, fixating…
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Coronavirus: Bollywood star Aishwarya Bachchan admitted to hospital after complaining of ‘breathlessness’
Bollywood star and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been moved to a Mumbai hospital along with her eight-year-old daughter, nearly a week after they were revealed to have…
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Queen Elizabeth knights UK war veteran ‘Captain Tom’ for raising millions for British National Health Service
In the end, Sir Tom didn’t need to “arise”.On a day infused with emotion, Queen Elizabeth tapped the blade of a sword once owned by her father on the slender…
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Hong Kong third wave: fears of fresh Covid-19 cluster after health workers test positive, as city records more than 60 new cases, 12th related death
Three health centre employees in Hong Kong have tested positive for the coronavirus, authorities revealed on Saturday, raising fears of a fresh cluster of infections as the city reported its…
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Coronavirus: Australia PM postpones parliament amid spike in infections
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has cancelled the next planned sitting of the federal parliament in Canberra because of the growing spread of Covid-19 cases, especially in the country’s two…