COVID-19 Updates
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UK retailers cutting jobs at fastest rate since 2009, CBI says
Britain’s beleaguered retailers cut jobs at the fastest rate for more than a decade over the last 12 months, as the pandemic accelerated the longstanding decline of the high street.…
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Hurricane Laura: US health workers brace for natural disaster amid pandemic
As Hurricane Laura barreled towards the US Gulf coast, healthcare workers in Texas and south-west Louisiana region braced for the potential effects of a natural disaster during the coronavirus pandemic.…
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The Guardian view on wearing masks in schools: listen to the WHO | Editorial
When the World Health Organization for the first time issued guidance last weekend that children aged 12 and over should wear masks to help tackle the coronavirus pandemic, one would…
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Why do Covid fatalities seem steady when infection numbers are rising?
Are Covid-19 death rates decreasing?Most statistics indicate that although cases of Covid-19 are rising in many parts of Europe and the United States, the number of deaths and cases of…
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World’s largest vaping devices maker Smoore defies coronavirus, trade war to expand capacity amid booming sales
The world’s biggest maker of e-cigarettes has shrugged off the challenges of coronavirus, the US-China trade war and tougher regulations to report a huge increase in profit, as more smokers…
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Coronavirus has made every day a struggle to survive amid the squalor of Cox’s Bazar | Farid Alam
When I was born in Kutupalong camp, Bangladesh, it was a very different place. I remember as a child laughing and flying kites with my friends. Kites are not flying…
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China’s ‘American Factory’ laid off more than 2,000 jobs worldwide in first half of 2020 due to weak car market
China’s largest car glassmaker, which featured in the award-winning documentary American Factory, laid off more than 2,000 people globally in the first half of the year due to weak demand…
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Has England learned any lessons from the first wave of coronavirus? | Philip Ball
No one knows what the next months hold, but suggestions that Britain will be back to normal by Christmas seem unlikely. Already, Leicester, Greater Manchester and Preston have enforced local…
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US dollar weakness won’t last. Signs show a turnaround is due
US dollar bears have had a good run of late. The greenback has been on a downward trajectory against major currencies since March, as evidenced in the decline in the…
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Coronavirus: South Korea shuts schools, braces for health care workers’ strike
South Korea on Tuesday ordered schools and kindergartens in Seoul to resume online classes as authorities struggle to contain several coronavirus clusters.There were 280 new infections confirmed on Tuesday, taking…