COVID-19 Updates
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UK coronavirus live: Boris Johnson to face MPs’ questions on Cummings as Tory revolt continues
West Midlands police and crime commissioner David Jamieson said officers are reporting people breaking lockdown rules and using Dominic Cummings as an excuse, amid fears Boris Johnson’s key aide’s actions…
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Coronavirus live news: European commission proposes €1.85tn Covid-19 recovery plan
Cyprus hopes to regain lost ground in its tourism sector from July and expects to be able to readmit British and Russian visitors by then after weeks of lockdown, Reuters…
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Coronavirus: Singaporean taxi driver jailed over Facebook post warning of food shortages
A taxi driver was jailed for four months in Singapore on Wednesday over a Facebook post in which he falsely claimed food outlets would close and urged people to stock…
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Man, 22, dies in Devon jetski accident
A man has died after getting into difficulty while on a jetski, police said. The 22-year-old was riding a jetski out at sea in Teignmouth, Devon, on Tuesday night. He…
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Glampsite worker to lorry driver: meet the Covid-19 job swappers
When Boris Johnson announced a lockdown that closed businesses across the country, millions of workers were uprooted from their jobs and facing loss of income. To make ends meet, people…
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As we emerge from the coronavirus pandemic, the world must invest in digital infrastructure as well as health care
With the force of a whirlwind, Covid-19 has visited its wrath on many countries, inflicting considerable damage – visible and invisible, physical and psychological. While many governments around the world…
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BAME campaigners urge UK government to tackle race inequalities after high Covid toll
A Covid-19 race equality strategy must be launched across Whitehall in the wake of growing evidence of inequalities amid the pandemic, a coalition of BAME campaigners, peers, academics and religious…
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Asymptomatic staff test Covid-19 positive at Somerset hospital
A hospital that has stopped accepting new patients in an attempt to halt the spread of Covid-19 on site has what its governing trust described as an “emerging picture” of…
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Coronavirus wage subsidies costing UK Treasury £22bn
A third of the British workforce is receiving wage subsidies at a cost of almost £22bn to the Treasury, according to the latest government figures. HMRC said that 1m employers…
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‘Thousands are in jeopardy’: freelance theatre-makers count cost of crisis
The Covid-19 crisis has exposed the precarious situation for the vast number of freelancers working in the theatre industry. “Thousands of them are now in jeopardy,” says Alex Clifton, artistic…