COVID-19 Updates
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No city for eating out: Hong Kong’s low-income workers struggle to find clean spaces to have their meals
Hung wakes at 6am each day to prepare her lunch of rice and vegetables, before heading from her home in Shau Kei Wan to work in Causeway Bay.The widowed grandmother…
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Obama condemns Trump attempt to ‘kneecap’ USPS to discourage voting – live
Former Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill weighed in on Donald Trump’s post office drama in a tweet on Friday, calling him a “liar” who is “trying to steal an election in…
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Coronavirus live news: France infections accelerate; Spain to close nightclubs and ban public smoking
Coronavirus outbreaks are taking place across Europe and it is up to each country to decide on how to tackle them, Spain’s foreign minister said on Friday as Germany declared…
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UK ministers were warned local lockdowns could fuel racial tensions
The government has been accused of being “tone deaf” for its sudden introduction of further lockdown restrictions in the north of England last month shortly after being warned that local…
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Coronavirus: Canada to offer residency to asylum seekers on pandemic front lines
Canada is to offer permanent residency to asylum seekers who put themselves at risk to care for coronavirus patients, Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino said on Friday.They will be able to…
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‘I thought there would be more compassion’: battling the bureaucratic maze of Covid-19 border restrictions
When Harry Halstead’s father died on Monday last week, the 26-year-old immediately applied for a permit to travel from Melbourne to New South Wales to care for his grieving mother.…
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Anthony Albanese rebukes Joel Fitzgibbon over comments on gas-led recovery
Anthony Albanese has rebuked his shadow resources spokesman, Joel Fitzgibbon, for signalling Labor will sign up to substantial taxpayer underwriting of gas infrastructure, and insists climate change is an “existential…
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Scott Morrison’s coronavirus mea culpa was barely disguised score-settling with Daniel Andrews | Katharine Murphy
Scott Morrison has delivered a mea culpa. But it pays to be precise about the nature of the apology, which was “sorry, but most of what went wrong was that…
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When someone you love is dying, your sadness is infectious. In lockdown, this grief is shared | Nova Weetman
Last night I broke curfew. I drove home at 8.30pm after delivering my partner to the carpark of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. Because of the restrictions, I…
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UK coronavirus: France could quarantine British visitors; UK reports 1,441 new cases in a day — as it happened
That’s all from the UK coronavirus live blog today, thanks for following along. You can continue reading our coverage over on the global coronavirus blog, as France reports another record…