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UK coronavirus live: Scotland to reopen schools in August as Sturgeon lays out lockdown easing
The Conservative backbenchers Henry Smith has outraged opposition parliamentarians by saying that the objection to MPs returning to the House of Commons after next week’s recess (when the current, largely-virtual…
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Germany braced for more protests against coronavirus policies
Thousands of people are expected to gather in cities across Germany at the weekend to demonstrate against the government’s coronavirus policies. Germany’s foreign minister has warned people to distance themselves…
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Dagestan doctors speak out over ‘tragically high’ death toll
Doctors and activists in Dagestan have described the death toll in the Russian region as “tragically high”, after officials said more than 600 people had died from pneumonia since April…
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Hundreds prosecuted for coronavirus-related attacks on emergency workers
More than 300 prosecutions for assaults on police and emergency workers were completed during the first month of lockdown, the director of public prosecutions, Max Hill QC, has revealed Appearing…
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Tory MPs call for end to ‘immoral’ surcharge for migrant health workers
Boris Johnson is facing a growing rebellion from his own MPs and senior party figures over his decision to keep the NHS surcharge for migrant healthcare workers. Three influential Commons…
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Coronavirus triggers fall in UK asylum and visa applications
The coronavirus pandemic triggered a significant drop in applications to the UK for asylum and visas in the first quarter of the year, as well as a fall in the…
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Covid-19: did the UK government prepare for the wrong kind of pandemic?
When the coronavirus struck, the British government repeatedly said it was among the best-prepared countries in the world – with some justification. As recently as October, an international review of…
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AstraZeneca could supply potential coronavirus vaccine from September
AstraZeneca has said it has the capacity to manufacture 1bn doses of the University of Oxford’s potential Covid-19 vaccine and will begin supply in September if clinical trials are successful.…
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‘If I don’t have sex I’ll die of hunger’: Covid-19 crisis for Rio’s trans sex workers
Social distancing is keeping people off the streets of central Rio de Janeiro. And that has created serious challenges for its trans sex workers, who have seen their clientele, and…
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Mind the gap: 2 metres apart and masked in Hackney – a photo essay
Shortly after the imposition of lockdown, I came across a team of workers painting red lines all the way down Ridley Road. They started at dusk and had to work…