COVID-19 Updates
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Coronavirus: toilet paper limits imposed as panic buying returns to Australia
Supermarkets imposed purchase limits on toilet paper across Australia on Friday following panic buying by people rattled over a surge in coronavirus cases in the country’s second-biggest city.“Stop it, it’s…
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Anti-Asian coronavirus hate: Vancouver police seek charges in attack on Chinese dementia sufferer, 92
Vancouver’s deputy chief constable says police are recommending charges against a man who allegedly shouted slurs about Covid-19 as he threw a 92-year-old ethnically Chinese dementia sufferer out of a…
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Resurgence of coronavirus cases threatens to swamp hospitals in Texas, Florida and other states
Just weeks after the coronavirus overwhelmed hospitals in and around New York City, medical centers in Arizona, Florida, Texas and other states with skyrocketing infections are rapidly filling with sick…
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Martin Rowson on Britons flocking to the beaches – cartoon
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‘Anti-vax’ conspiracy theorists seize coronavirus moment to spread fake news
The vaccine will inject you with an electronic chip, poison you, make you sick, they say.There is no vaccine yet for treating the novel coronavirus, and scientists are multiplying efforts…
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The Guardian view of Covid-19 politics: Boris Johnson must come clean about the perils
The flashes of antisocial behaviour found in mass gatherings on Bournemouth beaches, London streets and Glasgow parks ought to worry a government trying to lead the United Kingdom out of…
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Coronavirus live news: soldiers sent to southern Italian town amid tension over new outbreak
Here is a video of clashes between residents near Naples as a cluster of Covid-19 cases puts five buildings in lockdown and the army being deployed to the area. Clashes…
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Clashes near Naples as cluster of Covid-19 cases puts five buildings in lockdown – video
Residents have clashed in a costal town near Naples after five large blocks of flats were put under a strict 15-day lockdown after more than 40 people living there tested…
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Three more Midlands meat factory workers test positive for coronavirus
Another three cases of coronavirus have been confirmed at a meat processing factory in the Midlands. Tulip Ltd confirmed on Friday that three employees, including two from the same household,…
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Boris Johnson hopes bullish approach can bring back the ‘bustle’
When Boris Johnson announced that pubs and hairdressers could reopen from 4 July, his familiar optimistic bounce re-emerged for the first time in weeks. As the self-confessed scourge of “doomsters…