COVID-19 Updates
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France ‘on the cliff-edge’ of removal from UK safe travel list
France is “on the cliff-edge” of being removed from the UK’s travel corridor list, according to an industry figure, with a decision expected by the end of the week that…
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Australia’s nuclear medicine agency chartered flights to deliver children’s cancer treatment
Australia’s nuclear medicine agency has spent more than $350,000 on chartered flights to deliver critical medicines to diagnose and treat children’s cancer, as the Covid-19 pandemic exposes worrying gaps in…
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Privacy concerns over Australian businesses collecting data for Covid contact tracing
Australian businesses are being warned to be careful about how they collect and store people’s names and phone numbers amid privacy concerns if contact lists are left out in the…
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Confusing Covidsafe app message led people to believe they had coronavirus, documents show
Poor wording in an early version of the Covidsafe contact-tracing app led people to incorrectly believe they had contracted coronavirus and they turned up “alarmed” to GP clinics for testing,…
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Victorian doctors disturbed at patchy supply of PPE for Covid health workers
Senior doctors have spoken of feeling demoralised in their attempts to secure higher levels of personal protective equipment from hospital administrators, and say the approach to protection in some workplaces…
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Essential poll: Australians more worried about stopping Covid spread than reviving economy
Australians rank stopping community transmission of Covid-19 higher on their list of priorities than restarting the economy and putting it on the road to recovery, according to the latest Guardian…
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US could lose talent to Canada, China, India, say tech giants in legal challenge to Trump’s visa freezes
US tech giants including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Netflix, Twitter and others filed a legal brief on Monday backing a challenge to US President Donald Trump’s temporary ban on the…
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Zorro actor Antonio Banderas in quarantine after testing positive for Covid-19
Spanish actor Antonio Banderas, star of The Mask of Zorro and dozens of other films, announced on Monday, his 60th birthday, that he had tested positive for the coronavirus disease…
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Donald Trump is no Harry Truman, but a comeback is on the cards | Larry Elliott
A month ago it looked like curtains for Donald Trump. The number of Covid-19 cases was surging across the US. Consumers were taking the decision to self-isolate and there were…
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Boris Johnson will face the ire of parents if English schools don’t reopen safely
Boris Johnson was careful to lavish praise on teachers as he visited two schools in east London on Monday before he heads off to Scotland for a holiday. The prime…