COVID-19 Updates
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Coronavirus: Singapore’s domestic workers had more work, less contact with loved ones during ‘circuit breaker’
Singapore is set to start reopening its economy from Tuesday as it eases the partial lockdown measures imposed to combat the coronavirus pandemic. But for the city state’s foreign domestic…
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Fears that protests in major US cities may fuel new wave of coronavirus outbreaks
The massive protests sweeping across US cities following the police killing of a black man in Minnesota have sent shudders through the health community and elevated fears that the huge…
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China is a superpower: naive to think it does not ‘forum shop’ on international law
Professor Atul Alexander’s “Covid-19 lawsuits may put China off international law for good” (May 20) appears to be self-contradictory. On the one hand, he argues that China’s apprehensions about international…
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Think you know someone? Watch how they behave in a pandemic, then you’ll really know them
They are your friends, you thought you knew them well, but now it turns out they’re criminals. I’m not talking about delinquents or crooks, but quarantine breakers. These are respectable…
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Trump says White House protesters would have faced ‘vicious dogs’ if fence was breached
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said demonstrators protesting the death of a black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck would have been “greeted…
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Coronavirus latest: global cases top 6 million; Brazil passes France in deaths; backlash against Trump exiting WHO
Global coronavirus cases have surpassed 6 million, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally, as Latin America reported a grim milestone of 50,000 deaths from the disease.Countries such as Brazil,…
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Coronavirus: as Europe reopens borders, foreign minister says don’t treat Italy like a leper colony
Italy will not be treated like a leper colony, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Saturday, promising a warm welcome to foreign tourists this summer and warning other European…
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Could nearly half of those with Covid-19 have no idea they are infected?
When Noopur Raje’s husband fell critically ill with Covid-19 in mid-March, she did not suspect that she too was infected with the virus. Raje, an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital…
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UK coronavirus live: England lockdown easing is premature, experts warn
An education union has called for the government to draw back from reopening primary schools in England from Monday. National Education Union (NEU) joint general secretaries Kevin Courtney and Dr…
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Coronavirus live news: deaths surge in Brazil and Russia as Trump says US is quitting WHO
Priest Lucas Mendes, wearing a protective face mask, gives mass at the Nossa Senhora das Dores church in Porto Alegre, in southern Brazil, on May 29, 2020, after the city…