COVID-19 Updates
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The Guardian view on textocracy: bring politics back into the open | Editorial
The pandemic justified urgency in decision-making, but the government uses it to evade scrutiny and shirk accountability The pandemic has driven much activity that used to be conducted in public…
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Lockdown has allowed British people to indulge their curtain-twitching vices | Joel Golby
If you’re not going out having a beer in the sun, you’re probably at home tutting really loudly about those who do I went to Soho in central London last…
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India’s shocking surge in Covid cases follows baffling decline
Analysis: Rapid spread of cases across country comes after long spell in which virus seemed almost to vanish Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage More than a…
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As a second wave of coronavirus overwhelms India’s hospitals, desperate relatives turn to WhatsApp for help
On the last day of his father’s life, in between frantically working the phones to find a hospital bed, Swapnil Rastogi, 26, kept patting and reassuring him. He could see…
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Night burials at Latin America’s largest cemetery reveal deadly cost of coronavirus in Brazil
In almost three decades of working in Sao Paulo’s largest cemetery, the oldest gravediggers can’t remember performing more than 10 night burials.But since the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic…
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Coronavirus: gene tests to see if 51 infections on single flight from India to Hong Kong were spread on plane or in hotel quarantine
A genetic study of viral samples from infected passengers on a flight into Hong Kong later found to have a record number of Covid-19 cases will be undertaken to determine…
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Australia news live: NSW to pay Chinese company Shenhua $100m to exit coalmine; Victoria to make mRNA Covid vaccine
State commits $50m to domestic manufacturing of cutting-edge vaccines; former Liberal staffer to ask Scott Morrison to fix ‘systemic coercive control’ in Parliament House. Follow live Aged care workers relying…
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Coronavirus live news: India reports over 200,000 cases for seventh straight day; Japan mulls new restrictions
Oxygen supplies running low in Delhi; Japanese government considering state of emergency in Tokyo and Osaka; EU agency says clot ‘very rare’ J&J vaccine side effect Possible link between J&J…
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Thousands of vulnerable people missed out on support at start of pandemic
‘Poor data’ meant it took too long to identify up to 800,000 people who should have been shielding Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage As many as…