COVID-19 Updates
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How Asian development banks help the poor face coronavirus while the rich fall short
The World Bank and debt campaigners have criticised the G20 group of wealthy economies that includes the United States, Britain and the European Union for falling short on help and…
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Latin America leads world in coronavirus cases
Coronavirus cases in Latin America for the first time have surpassed the combined infections in the United States and Canada, a Reuters tally showed on Sunday, amid a surge of…
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UK could impose more ‘handbrake restrictions’ on travellers
Holidaymakers have been warned the government could impose “handbrake restrictions” on more countries beyond Spain in order to stop the spread of coronavirus – with travellers unlikely to be given…
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Coronavirus live news: UK quarantines arrivals from Spain; global cases pass 16m
Doctor Moyra Lopez holds an iPad for a terminal patient to listen to a farewell message from his relatives, at the so-called ‘humanized farewell’ room at the Barros Luco Hospital,…
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Nicola Jennings on Boris Johnson’s anti-obesity campaign – cartoon
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Coronavirus crisis puts ‘immune systems’ of market and state capitalism to the test
The time seems ripe for reflection on the relative merits of market capitalism and state capitalism, given the very different performances by the two economies that occupy pole positions within…
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Coronavirus US: polls put Biden ahead of Trump as deaths top 1,000 a day – live
Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, has tweeted out a clip of her interview on CBS’s Face the Nation this morning in which she coined a new nickname for…
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‘I have to work’: arrivals from Spain vent anger at quarantine decision
People flying into Britain from Spain have attacked the government’s decision to impose a 14-day quarantine on people returning from the country, saying they were given no warning and that…
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Covid-19 to compound GFC’s lasting impact on young Australians’ pay and career progression – study
Increased part-time work, lower wages and less choice of occupation have been the decade-long legacy of the global financial crisis for young people – trends likely to worsen in the…