COVID-19 Updates
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China’s trade economy roared back to growth in June, as coronavirus lockdowns eased abroad
China’s trade economy roared back to growth in June, with exports and imports both recovering from the coronavirus lockdown, data released on Tuesday showed.Exports from the world’s second largest economy…
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Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan’s coronavirus treatment highlights India’s inequality in access to health care
Although India saw a record jump in its tally of coronavirus cases over the weekend, the bulk of the nation’s attention was on Amitabh Bachchan, the country’s biggest film star,…
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Singapore’s economy shrinks by over 40 per cent in Q2, entering recession
Singapore’s export-focused economy sharply contracted in the second quarter according to early estimates released by the trade ministry, sending the city state into a technical recession and putting it on…
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Hong Kong third wave: learn from Covid-19 social-distancing mistakes and overhaul quarantine exemption policy, health experts tell officials
Hong Kong officials must learn from the mistakes made when they previously relaxed social-distancing measures and should overhaul their policy on quarantine exemptions as part of the new fight against…
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‘Worst-case’ UK winter could see 120,000 coronavirus deaths in second wave, health experts say
Britain faces a potentially more deadly second wave of Covid-19 in the coming winter that could kill up to 120,000 people over nine months in a worst-case scenario, health experts…
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Australia exports to China remained strong in May despite rising political tensions
Despite rising tensions between China and Australia, overall trade between the two countries has remained steady, with some sectors even posting increases, the latest export data and sector updates showed.Australia’s…
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Is Lane Crawford better placed than other department stores to survive the pandemic?
Back in May, while much of the world was in lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic and deep into an economic downturn that as yet shows no signs of abating, a…
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WHO sounds alarm as coronavirus cases rise by 1 million in five days
The number of coronavirus infections around the world hit 13 million on Monday, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University, climbing by a million in just five days.It took…
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California shuts down again as US coronavirus crisis expands
California’s governor ordered a retreat on Monday from the state’s reopening as coronavirus cases soared and the state’s two largest school districts, Los Angeles and San Diego, announced all learning…
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Judge instructs Trump to provide copy of Roger Stone clemency order – live
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended Trump’s highly controversial decision to commute the sentence of his former associate, Roger Stone. The Hill (@thehill) Press Sec. Kayleigh McEnany: “There really…