COVID-19 Updates
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Coronavirus live news: UK daily infections pass 1,000 as Greece posts highest single rise
Belarus police fired stun grenades and began detentions in a crackdown on protests that erupted as president Alexander Lukashenko was set to claim another election win on Sunday in the…
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Biden says US’s 5m Covid cases ‘breaks the heart’ and hits out at Trump’s ‘lies and excuses’ – live
Three Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) employees have been killed in a helicopter crash while conducting aerial surveys for desert bighorn sheep in the south-western part of the state,…
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Battered travel industry urges UK to rethink Covid-19 quarantine policy
The travel industry has urged the government to rethink its 14-day quarantine policy for holidaymakers as rising coronavirus cases on the continent – including France and Greece – put more…
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Boris Johnson knows his summer break won’t be a chance to relax
In August 2010, when David Cameron became the first UK prime minister to take paternity leave as head of a new and largely untested coalition, switching off from work would…
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The Guardian view on Brexit bureaucracy: tied up in red tape | Editorial
The government did not quite achieve the Brexit breakthrough it was seeking on Friday, when there was hope that a fast-tracked trade agreement with Japan might be reached. But it…
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Childcare confusion: jobkeeper loophole may give some educators access
Family daycare educators may continue to be eligible for jobkeeper despite the Australian government’s decision to cut off the childcare sector’s access to the wage subsidy scheme. The discovery of…
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Victorian lockdown may lead to supermarket supply issues – but panic buying impact greater
Experts have said Victoria’s restrictions on warehouses could lead to supply issues for the state’s supermarkets – but shelf shortages can be avoided if people do not panic-buy. From midnight…
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US passes 5m Covid cases as Republican calls Trump order ‘unconstitutional slop’
The US on Sunday passed the grim milestone of 5m coronavirus cases, as Donald Trump’s executive orders seeking to break a political impasse over further economic relief were denounced by…
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Ministers urged to help schools with Covid measures after call for routine tests rejected
Ministers are facing fresh pressure to help schools in England limit the spread of coronavirus when they reopen fully in September after rejecting a call for teachers and pupils to…
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US sets record as coronavirus cases top 5 million
The United States has reached another grim coronavirus milestone with more than 5 million people now infected, according to Johns Hopkins University tally, after the country’s top infectious diseases official…