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Coronavirus live news: Beijing says outbreak ‘extremely severe’ as dozens more cases emerge
The World Health Organization’s regional director for the Americas, Carissa Etienne, has said the region is fast approaching four million cases of coronavirus and the pandemic continues to accelerate. Etienne…
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Fed chair says US economy faces ‘significant uncertainty’ and fears wider income inequality
The Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, warned on Tuesday that the US economy faces “significant uncertainty” in the months ahead, and that the recession that has followed in the wake…
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Stocks gain on US stimulus hopes as 600,000 UK workers lose jobs in Covid-19 crisis – as it happened
Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell has given another bearish message to investors, but it does not appear to have done much to prevent a steep rally in stock markets around…
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‘We’ve been forced into debt’ – jobless life in the UK under lockdown
UK unemployment is expected to climb over the next few months from one of the lowest in the developed world, at 3.9%, to a much higher level. The Bank of…
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Essential to get balance right in easing of virus restrictions
Hong Kong’s record in handling the Covid-19 pandemic justifies the further easing of social-distancing restrictions. The government’s decision on Tuesday enables much-needed further opening up of economic activity to lessen…
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‘Pure distraction’: Keir Starmer dismisses Boris Johnson’s DfID and FCO merger – video
The Labour leader has dismissed the merger of the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development as ‘pure distraction’ after Boris Johnson announced he would create a ‘new Whitehall…
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Coronavirus: Dexamethasone can help save lives of very ill patients, British trial into low-cost drug finds
A low-cost and widely available drug has been found to reduce the death rate by one-third among most severe Covid-19 patients, according to trial data published on Tuesday.Dexamethasone, a generic…