COVID-19 Updates
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UK businesses warn £2bn youth jobs scheme not enough to beat Covid recession
Employers need more help to prevent a “lost generation” of young people affected by the Covid-19 recession, despite the launch of a £2bn Treasury scheme to boost job creation for…
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US refuses to join international effort to develop Covid-19 vaccine
The US government has said that it will not participate in a global initiative to develop, manufacture and equitably distribute a vaccine for Covid-19 because the effort is co-led by…
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Youth unemployment: why we should be very worried that Hong Kong’s fresh graduates can’t find jobs
Some very senior leaders I have spoken to recently, from both the private and public sectors, are quick to dismiss the alarming unemployment rate among fresh graduates in Hong Kong…
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China’s coronavirus epicentre Wuhan returns to life, but economic scars run deep
When Wang Dandan moved to Wuhan for a job managing a newly built hotel last summer, she could never have guessed the front seat-view she would have of the city’s…
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Pupils are back at school in Europe as coronavirus cases pass four million
Millions of mask-wearing European children returned to school on Tuesday with governments determined to get pupils back in class despite still-rising coronavirus infections which surged over four million across the…
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Johnson backtracks on meeting group for Covid-19 bereaved
Boris Johnson has declined to meet members of a campaign group representing families bereaved by coronavirus, despite appearing to promise to do so on live TV last week. Covid-19 Bereaved…
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Scotland announces local lockdowns and quarantine for arrivals from Greece
The Scottish government has announced a ban on household gatherings in three local authorities in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area for the next two weeks and has imposed quarantine…
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Bloom time: Morrisons doubles in-store flower stalls to meet demand
Morrisons is more than doubling the number of flower stalls in its supermarkets and taking on 180 professional florists to create fresh bouquets to meet rising demand. The Bradford-based supermarket…
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Debt-laden Angola gets relief from creditor nations of the Paris Club under G20 plan
Members of the Paris Club, mainly the richest Western nations, have provided debt relief to Angola to help the southern African nation weather the coronavirus storm.A statement released by the…
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‘Trickle not a torrent’: workers in Canary Wharf and Manchester return to the office
The morning flow of commuters arriving at Canary Wharf, London’s financial district, was a trickle on Tuesday rather than the torrent traditionally associated with the end of summer return to…