Mon 12 October 2020: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to make a statement to MPs on Monday giving details of new restrictions to slow the spread of coronavirus in England, though anger is rising at the cost of the stringent curtailment of freedoms. Johnson will hold a meeting of the government’s emergency COBRA committee […]
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Mon 12 October 2020: In this study, surface researchers tested the virus on included Australian banknotes – which, like Canadian banknotes, are made of polymer – paper, glass, vinyl, stainless steel and cotton banknotes A new study on how long the novel coronavirus survives on surfaces has found that it can remain infectious on certain […]
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Mon 12 October 2020: China has extensive, quick test capabilities and the health commission said over 140,000 employees of “medical institutions Authorities in Qingdao, China said on Monday they would test the entire city’s population of more than nine million people for COVID-19 over the next five days, after new cases emerged linked to a […]
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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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