COVID-19 Updates
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‘We have to change to survive’: Japanese bathhouses’ future in doubt amid plunge in customers
Craft beer, live music and lodgings featured in renovation plans that Takuya Shimbo had for an ageing Tokyo bathhouse, hoping to rescue a fading industry from extinction by reinventing the…
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Coronavirus live news: WHO reports record daily rise in global cases
The Prince of Wales gave a “morale boost” to health workers as he visited Caithness General Hospital in the north of Scotland. Staff at the hospital in Wick said they…
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House hearing finds US no closer to plan as coronavirus is ‘raging out of control’ – live
A federal appeals court has overturned Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death penalty sentence for helping carry out the 2013 attack, which killed three people and wounded more than 260…
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Central banks’ coronavirus bailouts are distorting the market, but do they even realise it?
When the US Federal Reserve announced on last Wednesday that it was “committed to using its full range of tools to support the US economy in this challenging time”, the…
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Martin Rowson on the last-minute lockdown in the north of England — cartoon
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Sport thrown into disarray after Boris Johnson suspends pilot events
Professional sport was plunged back into a now-familiar sense of uncertainty on Friday after the government’s decision to suspend spectator test events threw careful and expensive plans into disarray. The…
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Portland protesters have first night without tear gas as federal agents withdraw
Portland had its first night in weeks without tear gas after state police took over from federal agents guarding a courthouse that has been the focal point of violence between…
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UK coronavirus live: England at limit of lockdown easing, says Whitty; official UK death toll passes 46,000 – as it happened
A further easing of lockdown measures in England planned for 1 August was delayed for at least two weeks. In the surprise move for businesses that were planning to reopen…
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Fauci ‘cautiously optimistic’ US could have vaccine by end of the year
Dr Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert, has told the US Congress he is “cautiously optimistic” that a “safe and effective” coronavirus vaccine will be available to the public…
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Wedding receptions scuppered by England’s Covid-19 turnaround
When Jamie Dalzell and Cheney Payne initially planned their wedding reception, it was to feature a ceilidh for 100 people. That was before coronavirus forced them to tear up those…