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BBC Analysis Shows At Least 70 UK Healthcare Workers Have Died With COVID-19

Daily Dispatch April 22, 2020

At least 70 healthcare workers have died in the UK since the start of the outbreak, ongoing BBC News analysis has shown. Further analysis suggests healthcare workers with black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds are disproportionately represented among the dead. Out of 60 deaths

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Coronavirus: Six Chinese nationals jailed for escaping from isolation centre

Daily Dispatch April 22, 2020

A Ugandan court in Kampala has convicted six Chinese nationals for escaping from a hotel in the country’s capital where they had been quarantined over the deadly Coronavirus. According to the Daily Monitor, the group last month escaped from a hotel in Kibuli and were later arrested together with their Ugandan driver and his wife […]

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Germany To Start First Clinical Tests On COVID-19 Vaccine

Daily Dispatch April 22, 2020

Germany has authorised its first clinical test of a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, the country’s regulatory body said Wednesday, green-lighting trials on human volunteers for an RNA vaccine developed by German firm Biontech and US giant Pfizer. “The Paul-Ehrlich-Institut… has authorised the first clinical trial of a vaccine against COVID-19 in Germany,” the regulatory

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Astronauts return to pandemic wracked Earth

Daily Dispatch April 17, 2020

Two astronauts and a cosmonaut landed in Kazakhstan on Friday morning , completing their mission aboard the International Space Station. The space travellers returned to an earthly world changed by the coronavirus pandemic since they left months ago. Ground crews tended to them wearing surgical masks and respirators. NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan concluded nine months […]

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UK virus death toll rises to over 14,500

Daily Dispatch April 17, 2020

Britain’s death toll from the coronavirus rose by 847 to 14,576 on Friday, daily health ministry figures showed, a slightly slower increase than the 861 new deaths recorded the previous day. Nevertheless, the number of deaths over a 24-hour period to 1600 GMT Thursday is still higher than in previous days when the number of […]

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UK dismisses 5G/coronavirus claims as ‘nonsense’

Daily Dispatch April 15, 2020

The British government on Wednesday dismissed a TV presenter’s claim that there could be a link between 5G technology and coronavirus as “complete nonsense”. The 5G conspiracy theory, spread widely on social media, has already led to a new telecoms mast being set alight in Ireland at the weekend. Experts have poured scorn on the […]