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French Connection warns it is running out of cash
Ailing fashion retailer French Connection has warned it will run out of cash within the next few months unless it secures a cash injection or sees an improvement in sales.…
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Global report: Trump threatens to pull out of WHO over ‘failed response’ to pandemic
Donald Trump has threatened to cut funding to the World Health Organization permanently and even pull the US out of the global body altogether unless it makes “major substantive improvements”…
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Failure to explain UK’s halt to mass Covid-19 testing in March ‘unacceptable’
The failure to explain why the government took the significant and consequential decision to drop community testing at the start of the coronavirus outbreak is unacceptable, MPs have said in…
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Explained: how five-year-olds should be tested for coronavirus
Anyone in the UK aged five and over with symptoms is now eligible for a coronavirus test. The Department for Health and Social Care says it is currently unsuitable for…
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Compass seeks £2bn in biggest fundraising since Covid-19 crisis began
Compass Group, the world’s biggest catering firm, intends to raise £2bn from investors to shore up its finances, as the schools, offices and sporting venues it previously supplied with food…
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UK coronavirus home test kits run out as eligibility list is expanded
The NHS appeared to run out of its daily allocation of home testing kits within hours on Tuesday morning after Matt Hancock said anyone aged five and over with symptoms…
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‘A true emergency:’ Covid-19 pushes homeless crisis in San Francisco’s Tenderloin to the brink
On the streets of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, social distancing does not exist. Tents and blankets cram the narrow sidewalks, even set right against sun-faded buildings. Occupants of these encampments…
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Hydroxychloroquine, Trump and Covid-19: what you need to know
Donald Trump has reignited a controversy over the antimalarial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine after telling reporters he was taking the latter to protect himself against coronavirus. What do we know…
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‘My angel’: man who became face of India’s stranded helped home by stranger
A photograph of a migrant labourer, his face contorted with anguish as he sits on the roadside in Delhi speaking to his wife about their sick baby boy, has come…
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Covid-19: are pandemics becoming more common? – podcast
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