Coronavirus Latest News
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Coronavirus UK: latest deaths, confirmed cases – and which regions are hardest hit?
Please note: these are government figures on numbers of confirmed cases – some people who report symptoms are not being tested, and are not included in these counts. cases per…
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Two-week quarantine for travellers to UK would ‘devastate’ aviation industry
A 14-day quarantine period for all travellers coming to Britain would have a devastating impact on the UK aviation industry and wider economy, a trade body has said. The government…
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Coronavirus news Australia: evacuation flights for stranded citizens in India as some states ease Covid-19 restrictions – as it happened
To recap, this afternoon there were 6,929 Covid-19 cases in Australia, with the death toll at 97. There had been 16 new cases in the last 24 hours, four of…
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Coronavirus shows British–EU solidarity vital, say ambassadors
The coronavirus pandemic underlines the need for greater international solidarity, including more cooperation between Britain and the rest of Europe, all 27 European Union ambassadors and high commissioners to the…
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China says it will update disease control measures in wake of coronavirus
China will reform its disease prevention and control system to address weaknesses exposed by the coronavirus outbreak, a senior health official has said. China has been criticised domestically and abroad…
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‘You can’t ask the virus for a truce’: reopening America is Trump’s biggest gamble
On Monday the Republican governor of Nebraska, Pete Ricketts, a close ally of Donald Trump and frequent visitor to the White House, opened his daily coronavirus briefing with a big…
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Roy Horn of Las Vegas’s famous Siegfried and Roy act dies from Covid-19
Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy, the duo whose extraordinary magic tricks astonished millions until Horn was critically injured in 2003 by one of the act’s famed white tigers, has…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong researchers find three-drug combination suppresses virus nearly twice as fast as drug held up as major hope against pandemic
A combination of three drugs suppressed the coronavirus within seven days when used on patients in Hong Kong, nearly twice as fast as the single medicine seen as a leading…
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Inside China Tech: China’s business (and smog) comes back
Good morning, this is Melissa Zhu from the SCMP tech desk in Hong Kong with a wrap of some of our best stories from this week.First, the bad news. After…
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Donald Trump must turn to friend Xi Jinping to help calm South China Sea
I write in response to Yonden Lhatoo’s “China-US Cold War heats up with coronavirus conspiracy and cover-up charges” (May 2). While there was a pre-coronavirus symbiotic economic relationship between China…