COVID-19 Updates
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China offers flights to evacuate citizens from coronavirus-hit India, as border tensions rise
China is making plans to evacuate its citizens from India, with chartered flights taking place from early next month as the country grapples with a rise in Covid-19 infections from…
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NYSE re-opens trading floor for first time since pandemic closure – business live
Investors will be cautiously celebrating another milestone this morning on Wall Street. The S&P 500 has pushed above 3,000 points and is also above the 200-day moving average for the…
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Coronavirus live news: global cases pass 5.5m as WHO warns of ‘second peak’
Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, has criticised the UK’s decision to focus on the lockdown over other mitigation methods like contact tracing, saying…
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Coronavirus US live: Trump and Biden at heart of war over mask-wearing as deaths near 100,000
Trump’s tweet pushing a baseless conspiracy theory involving Joe Scarborough comes as the widower of Lori Klausutis has writted to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to implore him to remove the…
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UK coronavirus live: minister resigns over Dominic Cummings’ lockdown trip
Artists in rural and urban locations across the world have been invited to create temporary light installations in their homes at dusk over the weekend of Friday 29 – Sunday…
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Dominic Cummings faces questions over claim he warned last year of virus threat
Dominic Cummings is facing questions about his claim in Monday’s press conference to have written last year about the “possible threat of coronaviruses” after it emerged that a blogpost published…
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Excess UK deaths in Covid-19 outbreak approach 60,000, figures suggest
The number of excess deaths registered in the UK during the Covid-19 outbreak is almost 60,000, figures suggest, underlining Britain’s status as one of the worst-hit countries in Europe. The…
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Boris Johnson to face minimal questions on Cummings’ conduct
Boris Johnson is expected to face only a few minutes of questioning about the conduct of Dominic Cummings at his first appearance before the Commons liaison committee since becoming prime…
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What is the test, track and trace system in England?
The government’s test, track and trace system to help curb the spread of coronavirus is supposed to be up and running by Monday 1 June. But what do we know…