COVID-19 Updates
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Plan to ease England lockdown ‘likely to be in line with Wales’
Boris Johnson’s plans to ease the UK lockdown are likely to be in line with Wales, which would result in only modest changes such as the reopening of garden centres…
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Young men more likely than women to break lockdown rules – UK survey
Young men are more likely than young women to break lockdown rules, research suggests. A team of psychologists led by Dr Liat Levita from the University of Sheffield surveyed 2,000…
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Coronavirus UK: latest deaths, confirmed cases – and which regions are hardest hit?
Please note: these are government figures on numbers of confirmed cases – some people who report symptoms are not being tested, and are not included in these counts. cases per…
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Two-week quarantine for travellers to UK would ‘devastate’ aviation industry
A 14-day quarantine period for all travellers coming to Britain would have a devastating impact on the UK aviation industry and wider economy, a trade body has said. The government…
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Coronavirus news Australia: evacuation flights for stranded citizens in India as some states ease Covid-19 restrictions – as it happened
To recap, this afternoon there were 6,929 Covid-19 cases in Australia, with the death toll at 97. There had been 16 new cases in the last 24 hours, four of…
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Coronavirus shows British–EU solidarity vital, say ambassadors
The coronavirus pandemic underlines the need for greater international solidarity, including more cooperation between Britain and the rest of Europe, all 27 European Union ambassadors and high commissioners to the…
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China says it will update disease control measures in wake of coronavirus
China will reform its disease prevention and control system to address weaknesses exposed by the coronavirus outbreak, a senior health official has said. China has been criticised domestically and abroad…
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‘You can’t ask the virus for a truce’: reopening America is Trump’s biggest gamble
On Monday the Republican governor of Nebraska, Pete Ricketts, a close ally of Donald Trump and frequent visitor to the White House, opened his daily coronavirus briefing with a big…
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Roy Horn of Las Vegas’s famous Siegfried and Roy act dies from Covid-19
Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy, the duo whose extraordinary magic tricks astonished millions until Horn was critically injured in 2003 by one of the act’s famed white tigers, has…
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When to wear gloves
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