COVID-19 Updates
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Markets slide as EC predicts deeper eurozone recession – as it happened
And finally… Britain’s FTSE 100 has ended the day down 1.5% or 96 points at 6189 points. Hotels group Whitbread led the fallers, down 5.5% after it warned of subdued…
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JD Sports warehouse in Rochdale hosts mobile Covid-19 lab after positive tests
A mobile testing lab has been set up at JD Sports’ central warehouse in Rochdale after a small number of workers there tested positive for coronavirus. Rochdale borough council said…
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Fauci: US is ‘still knee-deep in first wave’ of pandemic as it nears 130,000 deaths
The United States is “still knee-deep in the first wave” of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the country’s top public health experts has warned, as the country approaches 130,000 Covid-19…
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Rishi Sunak’s mini-budget will be the most leftwing in years. Can Labour capitalise? | Larry Elliott
Back in December, a major plank of the Conservative party’s general election strategy was to portray Jeremy Corbyn as a Marxist throwback, committed to all sorts of dangerous 1970s leftie…
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Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus
The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has announced live on television he has tested positive for coronavirus. “It came back positive,” a mask-wearing Bolsonaro told a hand-picked group of reporters on…
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Several pubs in England close after positive coronavirus tests
At least four pubs in England that reopened their doors for the first time on Saturday have been forced to close again after customers or staff tested positive for Covid-19.…
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Israel public health chief quits amid rise in coronavirus cases
Israel’s top public health official has quit in protest at the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, as authorities imposed new measures to combat a rise in infections after the…
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Coronavirus sceptic Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro puts faith in hydroxychloroquine to cure him of Covid-19
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro says he is confident that he will swiftly recover from the new coronavirus thanks to treatment with hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug that has not been proven…
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Fast fashion creates misery, and that’s a bad look | Bidisha
During lockdown, everyone’s id has been allowed to float untethered. Obsessions, manias, strange desires and perverse fantasies have risen to the surface as the conventions of normal life melted into…