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Australia’s second biggest city enters strict new coronavirus lockdown
Aug 06, 2020 06:48Australia’s second-biggest city Melbourne began the first day of a six-week total lockdown on Thursday with the closure of most shops and businesses raising new fears of food shortages, as authorities battle a second wave of coronavirus infections.
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Donald Trump Jr. suspended from Twitter for promoting false cures for COVID
Aug 06, 2020 03:16Donald Trump Jr., the eldest child of President Donald Trump, has received a suspension from the social media site Twitter for sharing potentially harmful information related to coronavirus.
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Third of Afghans estimated to have contracted coronavirus: Health ministry
Aug 06, 2020 00:49Nearly a third of Afghanistan’s population – or 10 million people – has been infected with the coronavirus, according to health ministry estimates published Wednesday.
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The way the coronavirus messes with smell hints at how it affects the brain
Aug 05, 2020 09:00The virus responsible for COVID-19 can steal a person’s sense of smell, leaving them noseblind to fresh-cut grass, a pungent meal or even their own stale clothes. But so far, details remain elusive about how SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, can infiltrate and shut down the body’s smelling machinery.
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Nearly 275,000 coronavirus patients recover in Iran
Aug 05, 2020 07:44Some 275,000 coronavirus positive cases have recovered from the infectious disease in Iran, the Health Ministry’s spokeswoman said.
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Showing 'contempt for the American people,' GOP floats slashing boosted unemployment payments to $100 per week
Aug 04, 2020 14:43Economic Policy Institute research director Josh Bivens estimated that reducing the weekly unemployment insurance (UI) boost from $600 to $100 would cost the U.S. more than four million jobs over the next year.
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This is a pandemic. You cannot hide it: Experts denounce White House secrecy in private warning to cities to take 'aggressive' COVID action
Aug 04, 2020 14:34A private warning about rising coronavirus cases made to leaders in 11 US cities by White House official Dr. Deborah Birx on Wednesday July 22nd is the latest sign that the Trump administration must end the secrecy surrounding its response to the pandemic, an investigative journalism group said.
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How the US Chamber of Commerce wrecked the economy and made the pandemic worse
Aug 04, 2020 14:32This is not the first time the US Chamber of Commerce has successfully pursued policies that put Americans enormously at risk — for years it has been one of the major forces preventing Washington from adopting even the most modest efforts to accelerate a transition off fossil fuels to save lives and protect the climate.
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Global COVID-19 cases top 18.3 million, over 694,000 dead
Aug 04, 2020 06:42More than 18.3 million people have so far tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, and over 694,000 others have lost their lives to the illness across the world, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
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US teachers protest school reopenings as virus deaths pass 155,000
Aug 04, 2020 03:40US teachers across the country have protested the reopening of schools while many states are witnessing the resurge of the coronavirus.