COVID-19 Updates
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Covid job losses could widen England’s north-south divide – study
England’s north-south divide could be made worse by coronavirus’s impact on the economy, with the most vulnerable sectors such as retail and manufacturing dominating the jobs market in certain regions.…
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‘Stealth tax’: Labour attacks £15m spent on workers’ visas by NHS
NHS hospitals have been spending millions of pounds a year on government charges to bring in much-needed staff from abroad, it has emerged. NHS trusts in England have spent at…
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57 per cent of Republican voters say US coronavirus death tally – now over 176,000 – is ‘acceptable’, poll shows
The vast majority of Republican voters approve of the US economy’s state and how the government handled the coronavirus, saying the level of deaths has been “acceptable”, a new poll…
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Coronavirus: FDA authorises plasma treatment over scientists’ objections
This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Zachary Brenann and Sarah Owermohle on politico.com on August 23, 2020.The US Food and Drug…
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Coronavirus, climate change and Trumpian politics affect us all and put a heavy burden on American voters
My sense is that this weekend was a watershed. As the US Democratic Party Convention marked the earnest beginning of three months of unrelenting political warfare, and a serious challenge…
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Police crack down on illegal raves ahead of introduction of £10k fine
Fines of up to £10,000 for those organising illegal raves in England will come into force on Friday following another weekend of unlawful gatherings across the country. The UK home…
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A plea to Covid: stop killing people and destroying the economy, and please, please let me have Hamilton | Matilda Boseley
“At least this corona thing will all be over by the time Hamilton comes to Sydney next year.” It’s embarrassing to admit how much this thought kept me going in…
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‘Bumpy’ road to recovery as Treasury tips unemployment rate to top 13% by end of the year
Treasury predicts Australia’s effective unemployment will top 13% before the end of the year, with the Covid outbreak in Victoria hampering the recovery which saw real unemployment fall to 9.8%…
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The Guardian view on coronavirus rules: making sense of complexity | Editorial
This spring, Singapore’s government issued a pandemic decree that sounded both logical and faintly comical: hair salons could offer simple trims, but not elaborate styles. It captured some of the…