At prime minister’s questions, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn quoted from a leaked email to ask why the government has been slow to start buying machines for coronavirus tests. The prime minister testing was “vital to our success in beating the coronavirus”. Boris Johnson said testing has risen from 5,000 to 25,000 a day, and he […]
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DUFUR, Ore. — The social distancing rules repeated like a mantra in America’s urban centers, where the coronavirus is spreading exponentially, might seem silly in wide-open places where neighbors live far from each other and “working from home” means another day spent branding calves or driving a tractor alone through a field. But as the
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall are isolating at Birkhall, their residence on the Balmoral estate The Prince of Wales has tested positive for coronavirus, Clarence House has announced. Prince Charles, 71, is displaying mild symptoms “but otherwise remains in good health”, a spokesman said, adding that the
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Image copyright Getty Images People staying at home due to the coronavirus pandemic appear to be listening to more radio rather than music apps, figures suggest. Global, which owns Capital FM and talk station LBC, said online radio listening had risen by 15%. The BBC said streaming of its radio stations had risen 18% since
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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called on the G20 – the world’s 20 major industrialised nations – to fund a stimulus package worth trillions of dollars for businesses, workers and households in developing countries. This was a matter of “enlightened self-interest”, he said, to help prevent the virus from spreading and ultimately making a
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ROME — It was the biggest soccer game in Atalanta’s history and a third of Bergamo’s population made the short trip to Milan’s famed San Siro Stadium. Nearly 2,500 fans of visiting Spanish club Valencia also traveled to that Champions League match. More than a month later, experts are pointing to the Feb. 19 game
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WASHINGTON — Trump administration officials and top Democrats finalized an agreement early Wednesday morning on a roughly $2 trillion rescue package to confront the coronavirus pandemic, the largest economic stimulus measure in modern history. After days of partisan bickering and closed-door haggling, negotiators emerged from their final huddle and announced that they had struck a
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After first downplaying the coronavirus crisis, right-wing media briefly began to take it seriously. But now that President Donald Trump has vowed to defy health officials and reopen businesses, his favorite pundits have settled on a new message: Let people die. Trump has suggested that he may lift lockdown measures and social distancing guidelines by
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You’re scared. You’re bored. And with each passing day, you’re increasingly shaggy. Should you trim your hair at home? Not getting a haircut before the coronavirus pandemic hit has been on a lot of people’s minds: Guess I shouldn’t have canceled my haircut two weeks ago. Gonna be cutting my hair over the sink like
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NBA player Karl-Anthony Towns revealed Tuesday that his mother is in a medically induced coma after showing severe coronavirus symptoms. (See the clip below the survey.) In a heart-wrenching video on Instagram, the Minnesota Timberwolves center said both of his parents had been ill but his mom, Jacqueline Cruz, kept “getting worse” while battling a high fever
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