COVID-19 Updates
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Tui loses £1.8bn so far this year amid Covid-19 travel shutdown
Tui, Europe’s biggest holiday company, has warned that business is unlikely to return to normal until 2022 as it revealed losses so far this year have totalled €2bn (£1.8bn). In…
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Surge in Covid-19 cases across Europe linked to young people
Surges in Covid-19 cases in countries across Europe are due largely to a rise in infections among young people, data from national agencies shows, prompting fears among experts that the…
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Coronavirus latest: more than 750,000 dead as Europe struggles with second virus wave
The total number of people killed by the coronavirus pandemic around the world passed 750,000 on Thursday, with some countries toughening control measures as caseloads once again creep up.Latin America…
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The age of the office is over – the future lies in Britain’s commuter towns | Simon Jenkins
Is the office dead? Not an office, which everyone needs, but “the office”, the institution, the corporate HQ, the great overhead in the sky. Just as once the farm gave…
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For parents and teachers, sending children back to school will be a leap of faith | Gaby Hinsliff
It’s high summer on the beaches of Suffolk and Norfolk, and the bucket-and-spade season is in full swing. But for some families, holidays are ending early this year. School starts…
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India offers Maldives half a billion reasons to distance itself from China
India on Thursday pledged US$500 million to build bridges and causeways in the Maldives, as New Delhi seeks to counter growing Chinese influence in the Indian Ocean.The Maldives borrowed billions…
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How is India fighting the coronavirus pandemic?
With nearly 2.4 million coronavirus cases and 47,000 deaths, India is the world’s third-most affected country, behind the United States and Brazil.It reported a record daily increase of 66,999 cases…
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Macau casino operator Galaxy Entertainment posts US$361 million loss for first half of 2020, blames coronavirus restrictions
Macau casino operator Galaxy Entertainment Group reported a HK$2.8 billion (US$361 million) loss for the year’s first half on Thursday, reversing a profit of HK$6.7 billion made in the same…
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Japan, Singapore to ease coronavirus travel restrictions from September
Japan and Singapore agreed on Thursday to ease travel restrictions implemented in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic from September, targeting businesspeople and expatriates.“We will just need to confirm small…
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Boris Johnson’s next targets: reopen England’s schools, control coronavirus outbreaks
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces a major test overseeing the return to the classroom of England’s schoolchildren in September after five months.The school reopenings come as Britain, which has…