COVID-19 Updates

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Steve Bell on world-beater Boris Johnson – cartoon

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‘I’d rather lose my job than my life’: vulnerable people on the end of shielding

For Sian, a charity support worker from Northern Ireland, Monday will be the first day back at work since March. The 61-year-old had successful cancer treatment last year, but remains…
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‘Heartless and reckless’ to force shielding people back to work, says TUC

Up to 2 million extremely vulnerable people shielding in England must not be forced to return to their workplaces, trade unions have declared amid concerns over rising coronavirus infection rates.…
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Political activist Herman Cain dies after coronavirus fight

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Caitlin Oprysko and Louis Nelson on politico.com on July 30, 2020.Herman Cain, the businessman and…
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Covid-19: No 10 should consider regional travel corridors, says Labour

Downing Street has restored Luxembourg to the list of countries requiring travellers to quarantine for 14 days when they arrive in the UK because of a surge in coronavirus cases…
airportsJuly 30, 2020
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The Guardian view on staycations: adventures at home | Editorial

“If you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are,” wrote Wendell Berry in a collection of essays entitled The Gift of Good Land. Berry, now 85,…
airportsJuly 30, 2020
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‘Chaos’ at Victoria’s Epping Gardens: how privatised aged care has failed during the coronavirus pandemic

Melbourne aged care home Epping Gardens, where 85 residents and 35 staff have tested positive for Covid-19, is in “chaos”, a relative of one of the infected residents has told…
airportsJuly 30, 2020
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CMS and CDC announce provider reimbursement available for counseling patients to self-isolate at time of COVID-19 testing

Today, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are announcing that payment is available to physicians and health care providers…
airportsJuly 30, 2020
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Global report: French and Spanish Covid-19 cases at highest level in weeks

France’s seven-day average of new Covid-19 cases has risen above the 1,000 threshold for the first time since the first half of May, when it eased its lockdown, as Spain…
airportsJuly 30, 2020
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UK coronavirus live: England had highest levels of excess deaths in Europe in first half of 2020, ONS says – as it happened

Boris Johnson has urged Britons not to “delude” themselves that the coronavirus crisis is over. (See 1.46pm.) Boris Johnson: we cannot ‘delude ourselves’ that pandemic is over – video China…