Daniel Andrews due to unveil ‘modest’ changes to the state’s current lockdown a day after two women died from Covid. Follow the latest updates live
‘I feel your country’s anger’ – why the memorial to Britain’s Covid dead will be set ablaze
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I’m asking David Best about the significance of objects and there’s a stunned silence on the line. “When you ask me that, I’m still thinking about your husband dying in 2018,” he finally replies before pausing again –...
Sadiq Khan: London desperate for commuters to return after Covid
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London is “desperate” for commuters to return and needs to keep investing to lure them back, its mayor, Sadiq Khan, has said as he reopened the Northern line via Bank station, a key connection into the City. Khan said...
Shanghai to end Covid lockdown and return to normal life in June amid economic slowdown
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Shanghai has set out plans for the return of more normal life from 1 June and the end of a painful Covid-19 lockdown that has lasted more than six weeks and contributed to a sharp slowdown in China’s economic activity...
Kim Jong-un calls in the army to respond to North Korea’s Covid-19 crisis
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Kim Jong-un has criticised North Korea’s pandemic response and ordered the army to help distribute medicine, state media said Monday, as the country said 50 people had died since first reporting an outbreak of Covid-1...
Children’s activity levels have not recovered after end of Covid restrictions – study
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Children have become more sedentary and their physical activity levels have deteriorated in the wake of the pandemic even after the lifting of restrictions, a study suggests. Researchers said child physical activity l...
Pressure grows on Labour and Lib Dems to agree joint anti-Tory strategy
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The Liberal Democrats will put all their campaign efforts into only one of two crucial byelections this summer – leaving Labour to fight the Tories in the other – as pressure intensifies on leftwing parties to work mo...
US Covid deaths hit 1m, a death toll higher than any other country
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More than one million people have died in the Covid-19 pandemic in the US, according to Johns Hopkins, far and away the most deaths of any country. While the sheer number of deaths from the coronavirus sets the US apa...