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Coronavirus outbreak: Hundreds of infected in prisons and jails challenging officials
Thousands of potentially vulnerable inmates were set free or sent to home confinement to reduce the risk of large-scale outbreaks.…
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Guterres warns: ‘Horrifying surge in domestic violence’ against women amid global coronavirus lockdowns
António Guterres United Nations Secretary-General, citing a sharp rise in domestic violence amid global coronavirus lockdowns, called on governments around…
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How to help economies decimated by the virus, What Shape Will Solidarity Take?
A growing number of officials and analysts believe the European Union needs an enormous financial response on a scale commensurate…
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved out of intensive care, ‘in extremely good spirits’
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved out of intensive care as he continues to recover from the Covid-19…
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Coronavirus Vaccines and Treatments Move Toward Human Trials
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads at unprecedented rates, invading the lungs of people of all ages, ethnicities and medical histories,…
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Oxfam warns: Coronavirus could push half a billion people into poverty
Oxfam has warned that more than half a billion more people could be pushed into poverty unless urgent action is…
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Alarm grows in Africa as continent records its 10,000th case of COVID-19
Significant efforts are being made by African governments to respond to this growing pandemic, however the number of cases in…
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Wuhan Residents coming back to life after lockdown: ‘We were trapped for too long’
Wuhan Residents, the original epicenter of the coronavirus, are breathing a sigh of relief as a mandatory lockdown is over…
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WHO responds to Trump’s threat to cut Funding: ‘Please don’t politicise this virus’
Director general of the WHO Tedros Adhanom made the call this afternoon after being asked about US President Donald Trump’s threat…
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ILO: COVID-19 to trigger roughly 195 million job losses
ILO said Tuesday: COVID-19 crisis is expected to wipe out 6.7% of working hours globally in the second quarter of…
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