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Coronavirus: How to fly during a pandemic – BBC News
Jumping on a plane and going on holiday looks and feels very different to how it did at the start of 2020. Airports and airlines have both been making changes…
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Ethiopian maids dumped outside Beirut embassy – BBC News
Maids have been dumped outside a Beirut embassy, amid an ongoing economic crisis in Lebanon, heightened by the coronavirus pandemic. Lebanon’s economy is collapsing with the country’s currency losing 70%…
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Spain welcomes back British tourists despite Foreign Office warnings – BBC News
Spain has re-opened its tourism sector, welcoming British holiday makers without any need to go into quarantine. The Spanish government said the decision was taken “out of respect” for British…
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Coronavirus claims more American lives than First World War – BBC News
More Americans have now died from coronavirus than were killed in the First World War. The latest official figure is 120,000 deaths in the United States. Hundreds of new deaths…
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Government hints at relaxing 2 metre distancing rule – BBC News
The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak has said the government is to announce in the coming week its decision on whether to relax the 2 metre social distancing rule in England. Boris…
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Coronavirus: Return to Lombardy, the ‘Wuhan of the West’ – BBC News
Four months ago, the northern Italian region of Lombardy became the global epicentre of coronavirus as it saw the first major outbreak in Europe. As key mistakes were made, the…
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What has Greta Thunberg been doing in lockdown? – BBC News
The Swedish environmental activist spoke to the BBC about how she's been spending the last few months. There was no compulsory lockdown in Sweden, unlike the measures seen elsewhere in…
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More economic gloom as UK borrowing hits record levels – BBC News
Government borrowing hit a record £55bn in May. The cost of supporting jobs and businesses, and the plunge in tax receipts means government debt now exceeds the annual output of…
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All children back in school by September in England pledges government – BBC News
The Government has pledged that all school-age children in England will be back in class in September, with details of the plan to be published in the next two weeks.…
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UK Government abandons NHS contact tracing app – BBC News
The government has abandoned its plans to use a smartphone app developed by the NHS for tracing people exposed to coronavirus infection. Ministers have now decided to instead use technology…