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Investors need gold as a security blanket
In times of crisis, investors look to gold for safety. With the current Covid-19 pandemic, it’s no different. But our attachment to gold may be more archaic than economic.In olden…
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Coronavirus latest: World Health Organisation warns that Covid-19 ‘may never go away’
The coronavirus that causes Covid-19 could become endemic like HIV, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday, warning against any attempt to predict how long it would keep circulating and…
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Why Trump’s threats to ‘punish’ China over Covid-19 ring hollow
For President Donald Trump, aggressively attacking China could prove an effective way to deflect criticism in the United States over his handling of the Covid-19 outbreak. To match the toughening…
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Are children less susceptible to coronavirus?
How many children are being infected with Covid-19?Children represent just a small fraction of confirmed Covid-19 cases, with fewer than 2% of reported infections in China, Italy and the United…
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Covid-19 crisis raises hopes of end to UK transmission of HIV
“In the war against any infectious virus,” says Dr Alan McOwan, “You’re trying to win various battles. You have to keep clobbering it from every direction you can.” That’s true…
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UK coronavirus live: Keir Starmer accuses Boris Johnson at PMQs of failure to protect care homes
Judge-only trials without juries should be considered only “in extremis” and parliament should “take a deep breath” before making such radical changes, the lord chief justice has urged. Giving evidence…
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Coronavirus live news: Russia records 10,000 new cases in a day as Wuhan prepares to test 11m residents
Dozens of people sit on the steps in front of the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris on Tuesday. Photograph: Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images Day one of post-lockdown in France…
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UK economy shrinks by 2% as Covid-19 slump begins – business live
The prospect of tax rises and spending cuts to fund the UK’s £300bn Covid-19 bill hasn’t gone down well with some in the City. Bill Blain, market strategist at Shard…
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Coronavirus Australia live news: some NSW pubs to open from Friday – as it happened
And with that, we’ll be closing the blog tonight. Thanks for reading and stay safe. We will be back covering all the developments tomorrow. Here is what happened today: Some…
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Morrison government stares down push to end jobkeeper scheme early
The Morrison government has stared down calls in its own ranks to cut the $130bn jobkeeper payment off before its full six-month duration, and delayed a Labor and Greens push…