COVID-19 Updates
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Texas and Florida shut down bars in effort to control Covid-19 surge – live
The White House confirmed in an updated guidance that Trump is no longer traveling to his private golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, this weekend. The president was severely criticized…
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UK coronavirus live: council workers appeal for calm after ‘frightening’ levels of abuse on coast
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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The fringe is the lifeblood of British theatre, but coronavirus is killing it | Francis Beckett
Unless the government comes up quickly with a financial package for them, about a third of Britain’s fringe theatres will not reopen after the coronavirus crisis. The rest may struggle…
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Florida governor under fire over claims state is ‘cooking the books’ on Covid-19
Republican Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s faltering response to soaring new coronavirus numbers in his state is descending into acrimony, after an accusation his administration is “cooking the books” in an…
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‘The atmosphere was ugly’: Bournemouth aghast at beach chaos
Ben Waugh, who runs a bicycle hire shop on the seafront at Bournemouth, has lived in the seaside resort all his life but has never seen so many people packed…
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Child deaths from coronavirus ‘very low’, European researchers find
Fewer than one in 100 children who test positive for Covid-19 end up dying, a Europe-wide study has shown. A small but significant percentage do develop severe illness, it found.A…
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‘For Europe to survive, its economy needs to survive’: Angela Merkel interview in full
As the rotating presidency of the EU council passes to Germany on 1 July, the country’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, sat down for an interview with the Guardian and five other…
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No going back to normal after the pandemic? Don’t bet on it | Gaby Hinsliff
As the US army rolls into a newly liberated Paris, a woman sits serenely under the only working hairdryer in the city. The war photographer Lee Miller’s iconic shot of…
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HSBC resumes plan to cut 35,000 jobs worldwide
HSBC has restarted its plans to cut 35,000 jobs around the world, after pausing the redundancies as the coronavirus pandemic worsened. The UK-listed bank had initially announced the plan to…
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What have I learned in lockdown? I have a burning need for small adventures | Zoe Williams
A friend living in Belgium sent round a government leaflet on what the end of lockdown will look like: as of this week, Belgians can meet 15 people, rather than…