COVID-19 Updates
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‘It’s got to be a big stick’: Melburnians, perhaps surprisingly, are all for lockdown
Wyndham Village shopping centre could be anywhere in Australia. An Aldi at the entrance, a Coles at the other end, with rows of small businesses – a barber, a fashion…
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Parliament lets Scott Morrison know who his tribe is – and it isn’t the premiers and chief ministers | Katharine Murphy
Scott Morrison is like one of those stealth planes that are purpose-built to avoid detection. But parliaments are heavy things. Institutions can weight prime ministers who like to float above…
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Airlines warn flying back 100,000 stranded Australians will take six months unless travel caps eased
Frustrated airlines continuing to fly into Australia are warning it will take six months to repatriate more than 100,000 Australians stuck overseas if the country’s strict arrival caps are not…
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Pubs will shut before schools in a Covid upsurge, says PM
Boris Johnson has stressed that ministers will prioritise keeping schools open this winter as they tackle any upsurge in coronavirus cases. The government intends to continue using local lockdowns to…
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UK coronavirus live: lockdown restrictions to be lifted in parts of Greater Manchester, Lancashire and West Yorkshire – as it happened
Lockdown restrictions will be lifted for over 1 million people in parts of Greater Manchester, Lancashire and West Yorkshire for the first time in a month after a fall in…
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The Guardian view on Trump’s convention speech: the unwitting truth amid lies | Editorial
There are lies, there are damned lies – and then there was this week’s Republican national convention: a four-day cavalcade of brazen falsehoods from the president and his enablers. Wild…
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Covid lockdowns to be eased for over 1m people in north-west England
More than 1 million people in north-west England will be allowed to mix with other households for the first time in a month after a fall in coronavirus cases. Restrictions…
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UK businesses offering incentives to coax staff back into the office
Businesses are offering incentives such as free food, extra childcare and even executive parking spaces to coax staff back into the office but could fall foul of employment law if…
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Boris Johnson has given us a new mantra: Leave home. Forget the NHS. Save Pret | Marina Hyde
Like me, you will have been transfixed to discover that failed former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott is being lined up for a senior role on the UK’s new Board…
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Coronavirus to worsen in coming months, Germany’s Merkel warns
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday the coronavirus pandemic was likely to worsen in coming months, and that life would not return to normal until a vaccine to combat…