COVID-19 Updates
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China, Australia decoupling labelled ‘zombie economic idea’ amid coronavirus fallout
Calls for Australian businesses to diversify away from China as their main trading partner are nothing more than a “zombie economic idea” that is being used as a political tool…
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Coronavirus: Donald Trump says he wore mask at factory but took it off after being told he didn’t need one
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he did not wear a mask during a tour on Tuesday of a Honeywell International factory in Arizona after consulting the company’s chief…
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Coronavirus: in Latin America, face masks become form of expression
Rarely used in Latin America outside hospitals before the coronavirus pandemic, face masks are now compulsory for subway riders, supermarket shoppers and even joggers in some countries – and they…
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China’s coronavirus soft-power push will fail if it cannot defend freedoms – at home and abroad
Most of Europe had fallen. Britain was barely holding its own. A great number of Americans remained committed to isolationism. This was the situation in late 1941, before Franklin D.…
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Coronavirus latest: in U-turn, Donald Trump says task force to ‘continue indefinitely’
US President Donald Trump says his administration’s coronavirus task force will continue indefinitely, a day after the White House floated the notion of winding it down.Trump, in a series of…
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America is facing an unprecedented wave of bankruptcies. It must act now
Neiman Marcus and JC Penney, two of America’s retailing giants, recently failed to pay interest on their debt. We should expect one or both firms to file for bankruptcy soon,…
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Mike Pompeo says US report assessing Hong Kong autonomy to be delayed until after Chinese legislative session; maintains coronavirus claims
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said a report on Hong Kong’s autonomy that could trigger sanctions will be postponed until after the Chinese government’s annual legislative session this month,…
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Synthetic coronavirus created with brewer’s yeast comes with research options, hope and a warning
Scientists have created a fully synthesised strain of the coronavirus with brewer’s yeast, according to a new study from Europe.This development would help “provide an infectious virus to health authorities…
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Rashes, headaches, tingling: the less common coronavirus symptoms that patients have
The World Health Organization lists the most common symptoms of Covid-19 as fever, tiredness and a dry cough. Others include a runny nose, sore throat, nasal congestion, pain, diarrhoea and…
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UK coronavirus live: Boris Johnson sets new target of 200,000 tests a day during first PMQs with Keir Starmer
Ian Blackford, the SNP leader at Westminster, also mentions the figures showing the UK with the highest death figures for Europe. Some estimates show the numbers could be even higher.…