COVID-19 Updates
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Michael Rosen takes first steps as he recovers from Covid-19
Michael Rosen, the writer, poet and broadcaster who spent 47 days in intensive care with coronavirus has taken his first steps since beginning his recovery. Rosen, 74, the author of…
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Labour accuses government of cover-up over BAME Covid-19 report
Labour has accused the government of “covering up vital recommendations” that could help prevent black, Asian and minority ethnic people dying from coronavirus. Concerns about censorship mounted this week after…
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Pandemic production: when design is a matter of life or death
Design has been a powerful tool against the pandemic in recent months. The industry’s efforts to step up and meet the urgent demand has been little short of herculean. Contributors…
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As the few visitors to Angkor Wat revel in the near solitude, 10,000 in Cambodian tourist trade are out of work
Jared Cahners, an expatriate who has been living in Cambodia for about 10 years, woke up early. At 6am, he was at Angkor Wat, the world’s largest religious monument, to…
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I’ve been ill for months, but I still don’t know if it is Covid-19
14 February: extreme shivers, extreme sweats I’m lying in bed, shivering like crazy. My partner, Diane, is asleep, and I burrow deep into her back. I’m sweating like crazy, too.…
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Coronavirus gave China the opportunity to make controversial policy moves, experts say
The Covid-19 pandemic created a window of opportunity that allowed China to introduce a national security law in Hong Kong and overreach in other areas, both internationally and domestically, experts…
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‘I’m squeaking by right now’: voices of America’s unemployment crisis
The coronavirus pandemic has wrought destruction on US workers at a scale and speed that is almost unfathomable. It was only in February that Donald Trump was touting an unemployment…
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Exclusive: nearly 600 US health workers died of Covid-19 – and the toll is rising
Nearly 600 frontline healthcare workers have died of Covid-19, according to Lost on the Frontline, a project launched by the Guardian and Kaiser Health News (KHN) that aims to count,…
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Inside China Tech: Privacy vs urgency in Covid-19 contact tracing
Good morning, this is Melissa Zhu from the SCMP tech desk in Hong Kong rounding up some of our key stories from the week.In the past, contact tracing was done…