Sun 11 October 2020: European Union members agreed Friday on a method to determine safe travel destinations within the bloc, hoping to unify the EU’s haphazard patchwork of travel restrictions due to Covid-19. Envoys from the EU’s 27 member states agreed on a list of recommendations, which will include a colour code for identifying risk […]
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Sun 11 October 2020: Last one million cases rise in 13 days India became the second country after the US to cross seven million confirmed Covid-19 cases on Saturday. It also recorded its six millionth recovery on the day and the ninth consecutive day of decline in active cases. With the number of new cases dipping in recent […]
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Sun 11 October 2020: Across Europe and beyond, Covid-19 has come roaring back, and, as happened last spring, officials are invoking restrictions to try and suppress it. But this time is different. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 3,483 to 322,864, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases […]
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Sun 11 October 2020: Donald Trump has delivered a speech in front of cheering supporters at the White House in his first public appearance since being hospitalised. The event was officially a “peaceful protest”, but looked, critics said, much like a Trump campaign rally. The president, who says he is no longer taking medicines against […]
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Sat 10 October 2020: Microsoft will allow employees to work from home on a permanent basis even when offices reopen, according to internal guidance issued this week. The company unveiled a plan for a ‘hybrid workplace’ that will allow employees greater flexibility on whether they return to working in an office full-time or not, The Verge reports. […]
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Sat 10 October 2020: Breaches punishable by a fine include refusal to quarantine while sick and failure to wear a mask in a public space or require a customer to do so Iran is to start imposing fines for breaches of health regulations in the capital, President Hassan Rouhani announced on Saturday, as the confirmed […]
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Sat 10 October 2020: US top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci on Friday said that President Donald Trump talking of taking up an experimental COVID-19 treatment that he received as a “cure” may cause “confusion.” The director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease, while talking to CBS News, said, “We had a […]
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Sat 10 October 2020: China has joined the global alliance to produce a vaccine to treat COVID-19, the country’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday. The COVAX pledge to get vaccines to poorer nations as soon as they are developed aims to head off fears rich countries will limit distribution of game-changing medicines made by their […]
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Fri 09 October 2020: Europe surpassed 100,000 daily reported Covid-19 cases for the first time on Thursday. Cases throughout the continent have been steadily rising over the past week even as new infections in worst-affected countries such as India and Brazil have shown signs of slowing down. The focus of the outbreak in the European region […]
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Fri 09 October 2020: Spain’s government declared a state of emergency in Madrid on Friday, wresting control of efforts to fight the spread of COVID-19 from local authorities in a region that is experiencing one of Europe’s most significant coronavirus outbreaks. On Thursday, a Madrid court struck down public health measures imposed by the central […]
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