COVID-19 Updates
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Coronavirus: world nowhere near herd immunity, says WHO as global cases hit 22 million
The World Health Organisation says the planet was nowhere near the amount of coronavirus immunity needed to induce herd immunity, where enough of the population would have antibodies to stop…
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China to power world economy for several years as coronavirus recovery in developed countries lags, miner BHP says
China will be the lone major economy to grow this year, while developed economies will commence a slow recovery in 2021 without any likelihood of returning to pre-pandemic conditions before…
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Marks & Spencer job cuts highlight how slow company has been to change
There has barely been a moment in the past 20 years when Marks & Spencer has not been in restructuring mode, so nobody can be shocked that the Covid crisis…
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‘Shifting deckchairs’ and scrapping PHE all part of Covid-19 blame game
“There is nothing in this proposal that would enable him in my mind to do anything that he can’t already do with his existing powers.” That was Andrew Lansley, the…
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The Guardian view on scrapping Public Health England: not just wrong, but highly risky | Editorial
The decision to scrap Public Health England in the middle of a pandemic that has claimed 65,000 British lives is cynical and wrong. Few will be persuaded by the attempts…
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Health chiefs attack ‘risky and unjust’ decision to scrap PHE
The abolition of Public Health England is hugely risky and will distract staff who are working hard to stop a second wave of Covid-19, major health bodies have warned ministers.…
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Depression in British adults doubles during coronavirus crisis
The number of adults in Britain with depression has doubled during the coronavirus pandemic, official data shows, prompting calls for an urgent national plan to avert a “looming mental health…
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Racism burns Australia like pox and plague. We’re not all in this together | Kim Scott
Fire, flood and plague. Toilet rolls and mental health. Injections of bleach and sunlight. For a studied introvert with a writer’s routines, the duty of social isolation is reassuring. In…
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Go on, Dan Andrews. Lead by example and take some time off | Ranjana Srivastava
At one point during this pandemic, I found myself briskly losing patients. Most were terminally ill, and some even accepting of their mortality but of course, this did not lessen…