COVID-19 Updates

airportsAugust 27, 2020
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Man removed from Ryanair flight after testing positive for coronavirus – video

Footage shows a passenger being removed from a Ryanair flight by officials dressed in hazmat suits after he received a text message saying he had tested positive for coronavirus. The…
airportsAugust 27, 2020
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UK coronavirus live: daily cases jump to 1,522; Switzerland, Czech Republic and Jamaica added to quarantine list – as it happened

Here’s a round-up of the key events of the day. • The government announced the biggest single-day increase in coronavirus cases since 12 June with 1,522 new cases, taking the…
airportsAugust 27, 2020
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Rolls-Royce hoping to avoid Covid second wave on bumpy flight path | Nils Pratley

This is how bad things have got for Rolls-Royce, pride of the UK’s engineering industry: its finance director would prefer to work for Ocado, and his career move looks rational.…
airportsAugust 27, 2020
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UK sees highest number of new Covid-19 cases since mid-June

The UK has recorded the highest number of new coronavirus cases since 12 June, with government figures reporting 1,522 positive cases. The number of new cases, which cover the 24…
airportsAugust 27, 2020
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The Guardian view on lionising Covid-19 workers: Johnson’s donkeys still fail them | Editorial

Any connoisseur of socialist realist art would appreciate the National Museum of China’s new art exhibition, which hymns the battle against coronavirus with sculptures of masked medics mobilised in collective…
airportsAugust 27, 2020
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Passenger removed from plane after testing positive for Covid-19

Hazmat-clad officials rushed on board a Ryanair flight moments before it departed from London Stansted to remove a passenger who had tested positive for coronavirus. On Wednesday night, a passenger…
airportsAugust 27, 2020
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Coronavirus: US and Britain rank lowest in poll on handling of pandemic

United by a common language and high levels of political polarisation, the US and Britain stand out in a new survey as two nations whose populations are split over how…
airportsAugust 27, 2020
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Falling care home demand since Covid poses threat to UK

There is a graph circulating in the care home industry that should send chills down the spine of the health and social care secretary, Matt Hancock. It predicts, under a…
airportsAugust 27, 2020
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Hong Kong man who attacked McDonald’s worker over request to wear mask ordered to pay firm HK$4,000 for breaking cash register

A Hong Kong man has been ordered to compensate McDonald’s HK$4,000 (US$512) after he admitted damaging a cash register and assaulting an employee who reminded him to wear a mask…
airportsAugust 27, 2020
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong schools could resume classes in phases by September, sources say after meeting with education chief

Hong Kong schools could resume face-to-face classes in phases by mid or late September at the earliest starting with half-day sessions, sources told the Post on Thursday, after the city’s…