COVID-19 Updates
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Fosun, owner of Club Med, warns investors of 76 per cent slide in earnings as coronavirus ravages tourism business
Fosun International, the owner of Club Med resort chain, has told investors to expect up to a 76 percent slide in earnings for the first six months this year as…
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Tired of the coronavirus? You’re not alone, and experts worry ‘pandemic fatigue’ is driving some in Hong Kong to ignore Covid-19 health advice, restrictions
Dick Wong finds himself washing his hands less often and feels an increasing need to meet up with friends outside, despite knowing he should not.The 28-year-old accountant says he is…
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McDonald’s becomes latest company to require face masks in US to battle coronavirus
McDonald’s on Friday became the latest US corporate giant to require customers to wear face masks as it paused additional dining room reopenings in response to the US coronavirus outbreak.The…
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Workplace insecurity pervades the whole economy, just when every job is under threat | Jeff Sparrow
On his Twitter account on Wednesday, Victorian premier Daniel Andrews explained that of the 3,810 Victorians who tested positive for coronavirus over the past three weeks, an astonishing 89% kept…
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Coronavirus has dealt class of 2020 a bad hand, but China’s class of ’77 offers an encouraging lesson
As we nosedive into the world’s worst recession in the better part of a century, this is clearly not a good time to be a student, despite the brave and…
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White House says ‘schools are essential places of business’ in push to reopen – live
Virginia has removed monuments honoring Confederate generals and officials from its state capitol. The AP reports: Virginia House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn, a Democrat, quietly ordered the Lee statue and busts…
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Martin Rowson on Boris Johnson’s recent policies – cartoon
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Coronavirus live news: record daily rise in global cases with almost 285,000 new infections
Here are some more details on the latest WHO figures: The organisation reported 69,641 new cases in the United States, 67,860 in Brazil, 49,310 in India and 13,104 in South…
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Boris Johnson admits government could have handled crisis differently in early months – as it happened
Boris Johnson admitted the government could have handled the UK’s coronavirus outbreak differently and there were lessons to be learned, including on the timing of the lockdown. One year on…
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Boris Johnson: ‘Things could have been done differently’ in early months of pandemic – video
The prime minister conceded the government did not understand coronavirus in the first few weeks and months of the outbreak in England. Johnson admits there were things the government could…