COVID-19 Updates
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Coronavirus live news: Trump wants to disband Covid-19 taskforce; Germany looks to reopen shops and restart amateur sport
India will begin flights on Thursday to bring home some 400,000 citizens stranded overseas by travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, prompting concerns that imported infections could fuel contagion…
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UK builders suffer worst slump on record amid Covid-19 lockdown – business live
Despite the surge in UK government borrowing, there’s no shortage of willing buyers for British gilts. Reuters has spotted that the UK borrowed for thirty years at a cheaper rate…
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‘I don’t want to give up’: black-owned businesses face hurdles in getting stimulus loans
Black-owned businesses face a “huge burden” getting the necessary funding to keep their businesses afloat during the coronavirus crisis, according to advocates for minority businesses. Congress allocated $349bn in its…
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Matt Hancock says he backs any police action against Neil Ferguson
The UK health secretary has said he would back the police in any action they wish to take over Prof Neil Ferguson breaking social distancing rules by having a woman…
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‘People are dying at home’: virus fears deter seriously ill from hospitals
As New York City was splintering under the weight of the coronavirus, four men were shot in a Brooklyn attack. At about the same time, another was stabbed. Gang violence…
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America begins to reopen but businesses and customers in no rush to get back
They were not exactly rushing to embrace their new-found freedom in Liberty, Missouri. Trump loyalist set to become national intelligence director on second attempt Even as the state endured its…
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Trump Death Clock seeks to bring ‘accountability for reckless leadership’
Donald Trump has been accused of personally causing the deaths of 40,000 Americans through his “reckless” handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, in a new website launched on Wednesday under the…
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Coronavirus Australia news: more deaths expected at Newmarch House, minister says – as it happened
With that, I’ll leave you for the night. Thanks for reading. Stay well. Separate to the aged care regulator, the Aged Care Royal Commission is also looking into the situation…
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Inside a Greek coronavirus ward: how debt-ridden nation is beating the disease – video
Despite a decade-old financial crisis that has crippled its hospitals, Greece appears to be keeping its coronavirus outbreak under control, with a far lower death toll than many other European nations.…
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China calls Hong Kong protesters a ‘political virus’
Beijing’s top political office in Hong Kong has called protesters a “political virus” and said the semi-autonomous city will never be calm until “poisonous” and “violent” black-clad demonstrators are eliminated.…