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FactCheck: business secretary wrong about testing figures
Alok Sharma said 240,000 people had been tested on Monday.
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Pubs and restaurants to re-open in England as lockdown eased
Boris Johnson has announced sweeping changes to the lockdown in England.
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Latest COVID-19 science updates: antibody persistence, young people and air pollution
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, scientists are rushing to carry out and publish research which will help us understand how the virus works, and how the disease it causes can be treated.
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Coronavirus ‘major breakthrough’ – cheap drug reduces deaths among sickest
A UK drug trial has announced that a common steroid called dexamethasone, that costs just £5 for an entire course of treatment, has been shown to cut the risk of death by a third for Covid patients on ventilators.
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FactCheck: why is Covid-19 hitting ethnic minorities harder?
Major studies by the Office for National Statistics, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Public Health England have found significantly higher mortality rates among ethnic minority populations.
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FactCheck: are bald men at greater risk of severe coronavirus illness?
On closer inspection, the relationship isn’t so clear.
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NAACP division boss on the Floyd protests
Tiffany Loftin is the Director of the Youth College Division of the NAACP which is an American civil rights organisation. She speaks to Channel News from Washington.
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Bolsonaro’s Brazil becomes coronavirus hotspot
The Brazilian President is struggling to explain why his country is fast becoming one of the worst casualties of the virus.
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Who is Dominic Cummings?
He’s the arch strategist and the Prime Minister’s right hand man. Credited with winning the Brexit vote and helping secure Boris Johnson’s election victory Dominic Cummings is often described as a maverick.
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Tanzania’s President dubbed Africa’s Trump claims non-human samples tested positive for coronavirus
Tanzania’s President is often described as Africa’s Trump – not least because of his bizarre pronouncements on coronavirus.
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Charities demand care home workers are paid a living wage
They are dying at roughly twice the rate of the general population and are struggling with a lack of protective equipment putting them in harm’s way every day they go to work.
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FactCheck: coronavirus in care homes
New figures from the Office for National Statistics shed light on how many people are dying in care homes.
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View from the Window: how children are experiencing the coronavirus crisis
We went to visit some children in East London to find out about their experience of the coronavirus crisis.
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Saving the VE Day generation from Covid-19
It was supposed to be a memorable street party across the nation to toast the victory that shaped modern Britain in 1945.
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America’s essential workers and how they’re coping in the pandemic
They’ve long felt undervalued by the American system, but many now feel they’re risking their health for it.