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Coronavirus: Elderly couple stuck on virus-hit cruise ship ‘just want fresh air’ | UK News

An elderly couple from Northamptonshire has issued a plea “just to get some fresh air” after spending the past nine days stuck in a cramped cabin on a coronavirus-infected cruise ship. Jenni and Tony Wills, aged 74 and 80, have run out of toothpaste, are running low on toilet paper and only received a change […]

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The Real Cure for Coronavirus

Governments are frantically trying to contain and combat the coronavirus, and those efforts are important, but the world’s best hope is private innovation. Cutting-edge diagnostic tests and treatments are advancing, and government should encourage the trend. President Trump recently ordered the Food and Drug Administration to “slash red tape like nobody’s ever done before” to […]

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Death toll in New York state passes 1,000: Live updates | News

Donald Trump has extended federal guidelines on social distancing until April 30 after a top health official warned more than 100,000 people could die from the coronavirus in the United States. The announcement on Sunday evening came as the death toll in hard-hit New York state passed 1,000. “The modeling estimates that the peak in […]

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Coronavirus Australia update live: curbs on public gatherings take effect – latest news

Australian prime minister Scott Morrison announced further restrictions on Sunday, including limiting public gatherings to two people. Follow all the latest Covid-19 updates Sign up for Guardian Australia’s daily coronavirus email Follow global coronavirus live updates See all our coronavirus coverage Public gatherings restricted, and rent moratorium 10.25pm BST Parliament is in “emergency mode” which […]

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Coronavirus: Age isn’t the only factor in COVID-19 severity, experts say – National

Older people remain most at risk of dying as the new coronavirus continues its rampage around the globe, but they’re far from the only ones vulnerable. One of many mysteries: Men seem to be faring worse than women. And as cases skyrocket in the U.S. and Europe, it’s becoming more clear that how healthy you […]

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Coronavirus: Lockdown triggers desperate scramble as Indians walk hundreds of miles | World News

Thousands of migrant workers in India descended on state borders and bus stations as they tried to get back to their rural eastern villages during the country’s three-week coronavirus lockdown. Some walked for hundreds of miles in prosperous western areas including Gujarat, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi as there was no public transport available to them. […]

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Trump drops idea of coronavirus lockdown: Live updates | News

US President Donald Trump has backed away from imposing a quarantine in the New York area, instead directing a “strong Travel Advisory” be issued to limit the spread of the new coronavirus. The announcement on Twitter came late on Saturday as criticism grew over Trump’s earlier call to prohibit travel in and out of virus […]

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New Zealand: first coronavirus death is woman in 70s | World news

New Zealand has reported its first coronavirus-related death, a woman in her 70s on the west coast of South Island. The woman, who authorities said had underlying health conditions, had reportedly been initially diagnosed with influenza on admittance to hospital. New Zealand health officials confirmed new 63 cases on Sunday – a drop from the […]

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro calls coronavirus ‘a little flu,’ claims strong measures unnecessary – National

Even as coronavirus cases mount in Latin America’s largest nation, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has staked out the most deliberately dismissive position of any major world leader, calling the pandemic a momentary, minor problem and saying strong measures to contain it are unnecessary. Bolsonaro says his response to the disease matches that of President Donald […]

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Thomas Allen Coburn – WSJ

Politics is a lifetime career for most in American government, and then there are exceptions like Thomas Coburn. The Oklahoma obstetrician who became a Senator and then returned to a productive private life died Saturday of prostate cancer at age 72. He was what America’s Founders imagined in self-governing citizen legislators, and that mentality made […]

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Coronavirus: China is building a ‘fortress’ to make sure coronavirus is now a foreign problem | UK News

China is building a fortress against coronavirus. If you want to know just how seriously they are still taking coronavirus, cross its borders. On Thursday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it would ban all foreigners from entering in 24 hours’ time – we need to get to Beijing. Image: Sky’s Tom Cheshire and […]

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US coronavirus cases top 100,000; Italy deaths rise: Live updates | News

The number of people infected with the novel coronavirus in the United States hit more than 104,000 early on Saturday, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally, with the number of fatalities surpassing 1,700, pushing the global death toll up to 27,360. Italy, meanwhile, announced 919 new deaths from the coronavirus, the highest number of […]

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Coronavirus live news: Cases in Italy overtake China, US infections pass 100,000 | World news

Australia stepped up enforcement of social distancing rules on Saturday to contain community transmission of the novel coronavirus, implementing fines, closing beaches and threatening stricter measures if people defy pleas to stay at home, Reuters reports. The death toll from the virus rose to 14 after an elderly woman died in an aged-care facility in […]

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Nursing homes screening for coronavirus can’t rely only on symptoms: investigation – National

An investigation at a Seattle-area nursing home concluded that symptoms aren’t enough to identify who is infected once the coronavirus enters a long-term care facility. Residents without symptoms could have the virus, so it won’t work to simply separate those with symptoms from others. Investigators found that screening based on symptoms alone may be failing […]

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A Week of Coronavirus Pain and Progress

As the number of Americans infected with the coronavirus surges, and hospitals are besieged, it can appear that America is losing the pandemic war. But in important ways the U.S. is better off at the end of March than it was a week ago, and it’s worth tracking the progress as well as the pain. […]

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Coronavirus: Ireland put in lockdown as COVID-19 spreads | World News

Ireland has been placed under similar lockdown measures to the ones imposed in the UK following three more coronavirus-related deaths. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said residents should stay home until at least 12 April unless they were buying groceries, getting brief exercise or making essential family visits. Almost all shops will be told to close and […]

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The Restaurant at the Edge of the Coronavirus Pandemic

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Italy reports 683 more coronavirus deaths: Live updates | News

Italy reported 683 new deaths in the coronavirus pandemic, bringing its total to 7,503. Spain, meanwhile, recorded more than 700 deaths over the past 24 hours – surpassing China in the global death toll – making the country now second to only Italy. US leaders struck an agreement on a sweeping $2 trillion measure to aid […]

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Artists of Africa and the diaspora – in pictures | Culture

Fotofest in Houston is one of the major photography events in the world, and its central show this year was to have been African Cosmologies: Photography, Time and the Other. Curated by Mark Sealy of Autograph ABP, London, the show has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Howeverm the work of the 31 featured […]

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China reports first locally transmitted coronavirus case in 3 days, clampdown on flights – National

Mainland China reported its first locally transmitted coronavirus case in three days and 54 new imported cases, as Beijing ordered airlines to sharply cut international flights, for fear travelers could reignite the coronavirus outbreak. Thursday’s 55 new cases were down from 67 a day earlier, the National Health Commission said in a statement on Friday, […]

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Coronavirus: How do you stop COVID-19 in a country where people have other problems? | World News

Several hours before the nation commenced a draconian 21-day lockdown, South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, put on an army uniform and gave a speech which captured the historic and desperate nature of the order he has given. Speaking to soldiers at a base in Soweto, near Johannesburg, he told them: “This is your most important […]

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The Coronavirus Euro – WSJ

Bad crises tend to produce worse policy, and nowhere is that as true as with growing calls to overhaul the euro currency to respond to the coronavirus health emergency. Imagine how European voters will feel when they find out. We speak of proposals for “corona bonds,” an idea floated as a fiscal solution to Europe’s […]

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US-Taliban deal raises hopes for Afghan prisoners | Qatar News

On a cold late night in March 2016, hours after the Taliban fighters left Jan Mohammed’s house in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, security forces barged into his mud house and took him away. The night before, the Taliban had forcefully entered Mohammed’s house in Sherzad district, demanding food and water after escaping an ongoing gun battle with the […]

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UK landowners told to stop burning moorland after Yorkshire blaze | UK news

Landowners have been told to stop burning moorland for grouse shooting after firefighters condemned them for using up valuable emergency resources at a time when the the UK is fighting the coronavirus crisis. The Moorland Association, an industry body for landowners, said this week landowners must stop any controlled burning. The instruction came after a […]

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Coronavirus: U.S. Senate passes $2.2. trillion aid package in response to COVID-19 – National

WASHINGTON — The Senate late Wednesday passed an unparalleled $2.2 trillion economic rescue package steering aid to businesses, workers and health care systems engulfed by the coronavirus pandemic. The unanimous vote came despite misgivings on both sides about whether it goes too far or not far enough and capped days of difficult negotiations as Washington […]

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Coronavirus: British backpackers trapped in Peruvian hostel with infected guests | World News

Four young British women fear being forced to stay locked down in a hostel in Peru for up to three months after two fellow residents tested positive for the coronavirus. The group from London and Kent say they are not allowed to leave their dormitory except for meals and to go to the bathroom under […]

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The High Price of Coronavirus Relief

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Coronavirus: Doctor warns of ‘incoming disaster’ in Gaza | News

Montreal, Canada – For years, Dr Tarek Loubani has been guided by a simple principle: all patients, no matter where they live, should have equal access to high-quality healthcare. But it is obvious to the Palestinian-Canadian emergency room doctor that this ideal is not yet a reality. “I practised in Canada and I practised in […]

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Coronavirus US live: New York governor warns parks could be closed if social distancing is ignored | US news

1.08pm EDT13:08 Julian Borger The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has been giving a briefing on the virtual G7 foreign ministers meeting that began by videoconference at 7am (ET). He said the main focus was the coronavirus, which Pompeo made a point of calling the “Wuhan virus”. According to a report in Der Spiegel, […]

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Spain’s coronavirus death toll surpasses China as world struggles with containment – National

The death toll in Spain from the coronavirus shot up by more than 700 on Wednesday, surpassing China and is now second only to Italy as the pandemic spread rapidly in Europe, with even Britain’s Prince Charles testing positive for the virus. In India, the world’s largest democracy, the government put its 1.3 billion pereople […]

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Coronavirus: Stock market surge sticks as $2trn US stimulus moves closer | Business News

A rebound in coronavirus-hit stock market values is holding amid signs the hotly anticipated $2trn US stimulus package will be formally signed off later on Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average had its best session, in percentage terms, since 1933 while the FTSE 100 gained the most in a day for 12 years on Tuesday […]

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From Shutdown to Coronavirus Phase Two

Our editorial last week on the costs of our government-mandated national economic shutdown struck a chord with readers, including perhaps at the White House. President Trump is now saying he wants the country back to normal by mid-April. While this is right as a direction, the shift to a sustainable health and economic strategy will […]

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Quarantined Argentines use balconies to honour disappeared | Argentina News

Buenos Aires, Argentina – For many years now, Ofelia Agorio has spent March 24 in the embrace of the multitudes, marching in an annual demonstration to honour the victims of Argentina’s last military dictatorship and carrying a photo of her brother, Nelson, who was among them. But this year she marked the day in the […]

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Coronavirus US live: stocks rebound more than 11% as stimulus package deal nears | US news

WASHINGTON—Top lawmakers and the Trump administration closed in on completing a colossal stimulus package, worth an estimated $2 trillion, designed to shield the U.S. economy from the most drastic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. Stocks rallied on the news that a deal was near, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up more than 8% Tuesday […]

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‘Helping humanity’: Why this man volunteered for a coronavirus vaccine trial – National

Last Monday, Neal Browning became one of the first people to get injected with an experimental COVID-19 vaccine as part of a clinical trial in Seattle. “Honestly, it hurt less than any other shot I’ve ever had. There was almost no pain at all,” Browning told Global News’ podcast Wait, There’s More from his home […]

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Coronavirus: Tokyo Olympics to be postponed until 2021 over pandemic | World News

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said his request for the Tokyo Olympics to be postponed for a year has been agreed to by organisers. Mr Abe held talks with International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach on Monday and said a postponement is unavoidable if the 2020 games cannot take place this year due […]

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UK closes down, WHO warns pandemic ‘accelerating’: Live updates | News

The British government has announced strict controls on movement, telling people to stay at home in a lockdown that will be enforced by the police. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the plan in a rare televised address to the nation, after an additional 52 people in the country died from the virus. “From this […]

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Coronavirus live news: Britons placed under lockdown as Trump insists nation will ‘reopen’ soon | Australia news

8.43pm EDT20:43 Here’s a summary of the news from the televised press conference given by Donald Trump from the White House today: The main message was that Trump wants to get the US economy going again as soon as possible, and isn’t open to the country shutting down for months. Asked by a reporter if […]

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