US approaches horrific milestone; border restrictions tightened in Australian state of New South Wales; Brazil passes 100,000 deathsEx-health minister attacks Bolsonaro as Brazil Covid-19 deaths tops 100,000Trump signs order for relief, with less help for jobless ‘Queensland first’: Palaszczuk closes the borders and amps up election rhetoric Boris Johnson ‘w […]
Seán McPartlin, from Rathoath, Co Meath in the Irish Republic is one of 1,100 people under the age of 30 who have signed up to test the effectiveness of a coronavirus vaccine.
Brazil was leaping toward a grim milestone — 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 — on Saturday, and five months after the first reported case, the country had not shown signs of crushing the disease.
Donald Trump’s embrace of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug unproven in treating COVID-19, has directly contradicted guidance of top agencies and officials.
Property group British Land was one of the first to allow staff back into its London HQ – with lift-button prodders at the readyTemperature checks at reception, spaced-out desks, contactless coffee dispensers and plastic lift-button prodders. Welcome back to work – in an anti-Covid-19 office. These features, which would have been deemed eccentric and invasiv […]
Traveling nurses are offsetting staffing shortages in hospitals around the U.S. where Covid-19 is surging. Four nurses give viewers an intimate look into the mental and physical toll the work is having on them five months into the pandemic. Photo: Chelsea Walsh
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The Covid-19 pandemic is moving into younger populations, health experts said Thursday, with cases skyrocketing among children, teens and young adults.
The Swiss government says it has struck a deal with Moderna to supply Switzerland with 4.5 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine if the U.S. biotech firm successfully develops one
[DW] Poor infrastructure, logistical hurdles and high prices are some of the challenges that have long affected Africa’s food supply. With border closures and night curfews, the pandemic has exacerbated these problems.
Print edition of London freesheet will remain but focus will shift to digital and mobile platformsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Evening Standard is to sack a third of its employees, as the London freesheet seeks a dramatic reduction in costs to survive the coronavirus pandemic.The newspaper has been hit particularly hard by […]
A second statewide lockdown could be on the cards if infections continue to rise but the economic impact worries residentsBusiness is slow at Studio 23, a hair salon just off the main drag in Pikeville, a small city in rural eastern Kentucky, so barber Derek Harris is outside chewing the fat with two maskless police officers while waiting for his first clien […]
Birdwatching has boomed during Australia’s Covid-19 lockdown – and it’s having an unexpected benefit.
Educators, health officials and scientists are still working to understand what it will take to make schools safe in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr Larry Brilliant, an epidemiologist from California, said the global fight against COVID-19 will carry on for at least the next four years as the virus moves from one hotspot to the next.
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