COVID-19 Updates
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Coronavirus live news: Melbourne under curfew; worldwide cases near 18m
France will push for financial sanctions under the EU’s 750 billion euro ($880bn) coronavirus recovery fund against states that undermine fundamental human rights, its junior European affairs minister told the…
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Deborah Birx warns Covid-19 now ‘extraordinarily widespread’ in US – live
Donald Trump is back at the White House after another Sunday morning at Trump National in Potomac Falls, marking the 13th day he’s spent at one of his golf courses…
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Ben Jennings on Boris Johnson ending Covid-19 shielding — cartoon
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Covid-19: London lockdown and over-50s shielding ‘just speculation’
Boris Johnson and the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, met to run through possible options for averting another nationwide lockdown that could stall any potential economic recovery should there be a second…
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With borders closed, our lifelines to family overseas have been cut. The isolation is suffocating | Daisy Dumas
The first exhibition I visited when I arrived in Sydney in 2010 was called On Their Own: Britain’s Child Migrants. I stumbled across those gut-wrenching stories, and their tragically false…
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‘No barrier’: government has power to provide coronavirus financial support now
The Australian government has the power to roll out paid pandemic leave via regulation, rather than having to pass new legislation through the parliament, according to advice from the parliamentary…
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The Guardian view on lockdown creativity: a freedom for female musicians? | Editorial
The coronavirus pandemic has reconfigured the home as a site of creativity, one glimpsed through webcams and headphones. The format will surely vanish when arts venues reopen. But for some…
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Coronavirus lockdown caused sharp increase of insomnia in UK
The lockdown triggered a sharp increase in anxiety-related sleeping problems, with mothers, key workers and people from minority ethnic backgrounds the worst affected, a study shows. The number of Britons…
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Nancy Pelosi says she has no confidence in Deborah Birx over handling of pandemic
House speaker Nancy Pelosi escalated an attack on Dr Deborah Birx, a senior scientist on Donald Trump’s coronavirus taskforce, in television comments on Sunday as Birx defended the administration’s handling…
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Pelosi accuses Trump, Birx of spreading misinformation about coronavirus
This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Allie Bice on politico.com on August 2, 2020.US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday doubled…