COVID-19 Updates
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Indonesia’s Bali to welcome back foreign tourists on September 11
Bali, Indonesia’s most popular holiday destination, will welcome back domestic visitors from the end of this month as pressure mounts on authorities to rescue the battered tourism industry.Local tourists can…
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White House defiant as US coronavirus deaths pass 130,000
This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Max Cohen on politico.com on July 6, 2020.After a holiday weekend during which the total…
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US to bar foreign students whose university classes will be online only
Foreign students will be blocked from entering the US or asked to leave the country if their schools are conducting online-only classes because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Trump administration…
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Coronavirus: masks ‘strongly encouraged’ at next Donald Trump rally, after staff at Tulsa event test positive
Donald Trump’s re-election campaign made the decision to “strongly encourage” masks at the Republican president’s next rally as a precautionary measure, the White House chief of staff said on Monday.The…
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Trump demands Nascar driver Bubba Wallace apologize over noose incident – live
Here’s where the day stands so far: Trump was criticized for suggesting Nascar driver Bubba Wallace should apologize for raising concerns about a noose found in his garage. The president…
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UK coronavirus live: Johnson criticised after claiming care homes did not follow procedures during Covid crisis
The Department of Health and Social Care has released figures suggesting that around a fifth of coronavirus tests sent out have effectively been wasted. (See 2.59pm.) That’s all from me…
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Coronavirus: India’s big city outbreaks lead to record rise in cases
India has overtaken Russia to claim the third highest number of coronavirus cases in the world after recording almost 25,000 new infections a day, mainly clustered in the megacities of…
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Government’s £1.57bn UK emergency arts fund ‘too late for some’
The £1.57bn emergency arts fund announced by the government has come too late to save cultural institutions from going bust and hundreds of people from losing their jobs, industry figures…
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Religious services ban in England may have been illegal, judge rules
Banning religious services may have been illegal but other restrictions imposed by the government in England during the coronavirus lockdown were legitimate, a high court judge has ruled. In a…
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Coronavirus live news: US death toll surpasses 130,000; India’s cases third-highest in world
New York’s governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday called on Donald Trump to not be a “co-conspirator” of the coronavirus and acknowledge the “major problem” it poses as cases spiked in…