COVID-19 Updates
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Coronavirus US live: Georgia Senate candidate awaiting Covid-19 results after wife tests positive
Civil rights hero and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis, who died on 17 July at the age of 80, was remembered on Saturday morning at a memorial service in the…
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UK imposes 14-day quarantine on travellers from Spain
The UK will impose restrictions on holidaymakers returning from Spain on Saturday in a bid to curb the surge in coronavirus infections, the government has confirmed. The decision means those…
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Republicans continue Covid-19 relief talks as Democrat warns of catastrophe
The White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and the treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, were on Capitol Hill on Saturday, for talks with aides to Senate Republicans over the next…
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Netanyahu faces Israelis’ anger as virus surges and unemployment rises
For Benjamin Netanyahu it wasn’t a bad spring this year, considering the previous 12 months. The prime minister managed, somehow, to continue his treasured run as Israel’s longest-serving leader, despite…
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Local TV stations across US to air conspiracy theory on Fauci
TV stations across the US owned by Sinclair Television will this weekend run an interview with a conspiracy theorist who claims baselessly that Dr Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious…
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro tests negative for coronavirus, attributes recovery to hydroxychloroquine
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced on Saturday he has tested negative for the new coronavirus more than two weeks after being diagnosed on July 7, attributing his recovery to an…
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John Roberts sides with supreme court liberals on Nevada church decision
Chief Justice John Roberts again sided with the liberals on the US supreme court on Friday, as it denied a rural Nevada church’s request to strike down a 50-person cap…
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Third of youth clubs in London fear closure by end of year
Almost a third of youth clubs in London warn that they face closure amid growing concerns that the coronavirus pandemic will provoke a summer childcare crisis. Organisations across the capital…
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The UK’s app failure sums up our fatally flawed coronavirus response | John Naughton
I’ve just been looking at the coronavirus death toll in various countries as tallied on the Johns Hopkins University Covid-19 tracker. At the time I checked, the UK had 45,407…
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More than 30 people chasing each job in parts of UK
More than 30 people are chasing each job in parts of Britain with more than 100 unemployed people for each vacancy in one part of Northern Ireland, new figures reveal.…