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UK PM Johnson under fire over handling of coronavirus crisis
Apr 22, 2020 07:04British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday faced a call for an inquiry into his government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis after failing to fully explain partial death data, limited testing or the lack of equipment for hospitals.
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UK’s Health Department accused of coronavirus disinformation campaign
Apr 21, 2020 14:08On the day it was revealed there have been an additional 823 coronavirus-related deaths in British hospitals, the government has come under pressure to come clean about possible disinformation campaigns.
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China condemns US, UK criticism of arrests in Hong Kong
Apr 20, 2020 09:55China’s Foreign Ministry has condemned recent remarks by Western officials who criticized the arrest of several protest organizers in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong.
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UK’s coronavirus lockdown may lead to 6.5 million jobs lost
Apr 20, 2020 09:08More than 6.5 million jobs could be at risk of being lost as a result of the economic fallout from the UK’s coronavirus lockdown, according to a recent study.
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UK is to trial use of blood plasma from coronavirus survivors
Apr 20, 2020 02:31NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is asking people who have recovered from Covid-19 to donate their blood in the hope that the antibodies they have built up will help to clear the virus in others.
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UK Health Minister: We want mass testing
Apr 17, 2020 13:29The British government was too slow to react on a number of fronts to the novel coronavirus outbreak that could cause the deaths of 40,000 people in the United Kingdom, a leading public health professor told lawmakers on Friday.
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COVID-19 deaths in UK hospitals rose 861 to 13,729, the biggest daily rise in five days
Apr 16, 2020 23:51The United Kingdom’s death toll from COVID-19 in hospitals rose 861 to 13,729, on April 15, the health ministry said.
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UK arms giant sold £15bn in weapons to Saudi Arabia during Yemen war: Report
Apr 15, 2020 03:04Britain’s leading arms manufacturer is found to have sold above £15 billion ($18.9) worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since the kingdom started a brutal war against Yemen, the Arab world’s most impoverished nation.
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Tech firms shown to be using information to build ‘Covid-19 data store’
Apr 13, 2020 08:17British patients' confidential information is being used by tech firms in a data-mining operation that is part of the government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, according to documents seen by The Guardian.
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One month since declared coronavirus pandemic, over 108,000 dead
Apr 12, 2020 03:42One month since the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), 108,867 people have died of complications caused by the pathogen and more than 1,777,666 people have been infected worldwide, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.