COVID-19 Updates
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India reopens shopping malls, hotels and restaurants, a day after record surge in coronavirus cases
India is allowing shopping centres, restaurants, hotels and places of worship to reopen Monday after a 10-week nationwide lockdown likely slowed infections, but did not stop it from surging past…
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China plans to overhaul health system, but better communication with public is off the radar
China has identified five areas where its public health system needs to be improved after the coronavirus outbreak, but critics say it has failed to address the need to keep…
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Returning tourism won’t save airlines from coronavirus
I wrote for Abacus in late April about how I thought equity investors would start to shift their investment strategies out of “growth stocks”, and that we would see a…
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US officials urge George Floyd protesters to get coronavirus tests
With New York City poised to reopen after a more than two-month coronavirus shutdown, officials on Sunday lifted a curfew that was in place amid protests of police brutality and…
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Brazil government stops publishing virus death toll as data befuddles experts
Brazil’s government has stopped publishing a running total of coronavirus deaths and infections in an extraordinary move that critics call an attempt to hide the true toll of the disease…
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What is the coronavirus R number and is it rising in the UK?
With models suggesting that R could have risen above 1 in some parts of the UK, we look at what that means and how concerned we should be: What is…
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UK coronavirus live: death toll rises by 77 but no new Covid-19 deaths recorded in Scotland or Northern Ireland
Potential regional lockdowns are cause for “serious concern” as some council leaders fear they would be unenforceable, two city mayors have said. Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham and Liverpool City…
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Coronavirus live updates: Bolsonaro hides Brazil death figures; pope warns Italians not to let their guard down
Hello, I’ll be running the live blog for the next few hours. If you have any tips or feedback, please do message me on Twitter @cleaskopeliti or drop me an…
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‘It feels endless’: four women struggling to recover from Covid-19
Last month, the Guardian published an interview with Paul Garner, a professor of infectious diseases, about his experience of Covid-19. The piece was shared widely and viewed nearly 1m times.…
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Blue-sky thinking: how cities can keep air clean after coronavirus
For those not directly affected, the ability to breathe more easily and see further has perhaps been the greatest consolation amid the trauma of the coronavirus pandemic. As city after…