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March 19, 2020
Coronavirus: Asian nations face second wave of imported cases

South Korea, China and Singapore are among the Asian countries facing a second coronavirus wave, fuelled by people importing it from outside...

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March 20, 2020
Coronavirus: Tens of thousands of retired medics asked to return to NHS

Letters are being sent to more than 65,000 retired doctors and nurses in England and Wales asking them to return to the NHS to help tackle the coronavirus outbreak...

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March 20, 2020
Coronavirus: California issues state-wide 'stay at home' order

California has issued a "stay at home" order to residents as it tries to stem the march of the coronavirus across the most populous US state...

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March 23, 2020
Coronavirus: Harvey Weinstein tests positive

Former Hollywood producer and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein has tested positive for coronavirus while in prison...

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March 23, 2020
Tokyo 2020: IOC sets deadline for decision on Games amid coronavirus

The International Olympic Committee is considering a postponement of Tokyo 2020, and has given itself a deadline of four weeks to make a decision...

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March 24, 2020
Coronavirus: Spanish army finds care home residents 'dead and abandoned'

Spanish soldiers helping to fight the coronavirus pandemic have found elderly patients in retirement homes abandoned and, in some cases, dead in their beds, the defence ministry has said...

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March 25, 2020
Coronavirus: Trump hopes US will shake off pandemic by Easter

US President Donald Trump has said he hopes the US will shake off coronavirus by Easter, even as New York's governor sounded the alarm that the illness is spreading faster than "a bullet train"...

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September 09, 2020
Half a million US children have been diagnosed with Covid-19

Half a million US children have been diagnosed with Covid-19, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association...

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July 27, 2020
Coronavirus: Alarm in Vietnam after first cases in months

Vietnam has closed Da Nang to tourists after 15 new locally transmitted coronavirus cases were recorded there - the first in the country since April...

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August 10, 2020
97,000 children tested positive for Covid-19 in 2 weeks as more schools plan to reopen

Just as thousands more students return to classrooms this week, another study shows how easily children can get coronavirus...

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