COVID-19 Updates
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Steve Bannon pleads not guilty to fraud charges over border wall campaign – live
‘He didn’t strike me as a serious candidate:’ questions about DeJoy’s qualifications Postmaster General Louis DeJoy did not seem to be a “serious candidate” to serve as postmaster general during…
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Lockdown fears for Birmingham amid sharp rise in UK coronavirus cases
Police and officials in Birmingham have warned the public to act now to avert a city-wide lockdown as the number of people testing positive for coronavirus in England rose 27%…
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Airbnb to ban house parties and limit guest numbers amid Covid-19 crisis
Airbnb will no longer allow house parties in its properties worldwide in a bid to comply with limits on gatherings that have been imposed due to the coronavirus outbreak. Those…
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The Guardian view on Boris Johnson’s government: an omnishambles week | Editorial
Everyone knew where accountability for governmental decisions under America’s postwar president Harry Truman lay. It lay with the man at the top. The decisions could be good, bad or indifferent.…
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UK coronavirus live: Croatia, Austria and Trinidad and Tobago added to quarantine list – as it happened
That’s all from me today, folks. Thanks for reading. Here is a summary of today’s key events: Travellers returning from Croatia, Austria and Trinidad and Tobago will have to quarantine…
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UK nightlife industry facing ‘financial armageddon’
Nightclub owners have warned they face a looming “financial armageddon” that could put three quarters of a million people in the struggling night-time economy out of work within weeks. More…
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Furlough still covering 12% of UK workforce as scheme is phased out
One in eight members of the UK workforce, equating to more than three million people, were under furlough as the government’s wage subsidy scheme began to be phased out, the…
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Allowing workers to remain in abattoirs while awaiting Covid test results ‘encourages screening’
Epidemiologists say allowing non-symptomatic abattoir staff to work while awaiting Covid-19 test results is a “necessary risk” during the pandemic. A worker at the JBS Australia meatworks plant in Melbourne,…
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Australia’s national cabinet to discuss aged care emergency response
Scott Morrison and the premiers will consider a national emergency response for the aged care sector, as well as new principles to manage domestic borders, when they meet for Friday’s…
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Rush for flu vaccine in China as doctors and a nervous population fear influenza season colliding with Covid-19
Residents in major mainland cities have rushed to book flu vaccines as experts warn of the combined risks from flu and Covid-19 in the coming autumn and winter.Some private hospitals…