Kerry Allen BBC Monitoring, Chinese Media Analyst Getty ImagesCopyright: Getty Images One hundred mini-parks are going to be opened by the end of the year in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the original epicentre of the Covid-19 coronavirus. The swift move appears to be aimed at encouraging locals to spend more time in green, […]
Anthony Zurcher BBC North America reporter Getty ImagesCopyright: Getty Images The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on Donald Trump’s re-election plans. His promise to maintain record-breaking economic expansion and “keep America great” has been swept away by record unemployment and the financial toll that the nationwide business-closure and shelter-in-place orders have taken. During the outbreak, […]
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‘Test and trace will require people to absorb new rules’
Jessica Parker BBC political correspondent The UK government is launching what it sees as a pivotal part of this country slowly emerging from the current lockdown: its test and trace programme. It’s a change that’s going to require people in England to absorb and act on new rules around self-isolation. Matt Hancock said that sticking by […]
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Alabama Beachgoers Belittle Coronavirus Threat On Busy Memorial Day Weekend
Alabama Beachgoers Belittle Coronavirus Threat On Busy Memorial Day Weekend Footage showed Gulf Shores beach in Alabama packed with people as the state experienced an uptick in COVID-19 cases. By Lee Moran, HuffPost US A surge of coronavirus infections in Alabama didn’t deter people from descending on the state’s beaches over Memorial Day weekend, according to local media reports. Footage that […]
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Coronavirus: China’s plan to test everyone in Wuhan By Reality
Coronavirus: China’s plan to test everyone in Wuhan By Reality Check teamBBC News China has been carrying out an ambitious plan to test everyone in Wuhan, the city where the Covid-19 pandemic began, following the emergence of a cluster of new infections. The authorities had pledged to test the city’s inhabitants over a 10-day period, […]
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Coronavirus: China’s plan to test everyone in Wuhan
Coronavirus: China’s plan to test everyone in Wuhan By Reality Check teamBBC News China has been carrying out an ambitious plan to test everyone in Wuhan, the city where the Covid-19 pandemic began, following the emergence of a cluster of new infections. The authorities had pledged to test the city’s inhabitants over a 10-day period, […]
India combats locust attack amid Covid-19 pandemic Soutik BiswasIndia correspondent An invasion by desert locusts has hit large swathes of India and Pakistan in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Large and aggressive swarms of these crop-devouring short-horned insects have invaded more than two dozen districts covering more than 50,000 hectares of desert areas of […]
Suriname election: Will a convicted murderer be re-elected? Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionDési Bouterse has been president since 2010 The people of Suriname will decide on Monday whether President Dési Bouterse, who has been found guilty of murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison, will continue to lead the South American country. Voters will cast […]
Volkswagen loses landmark German ‘dieselgate’ case Diesel emissions scandal Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Germany’s highest civil court has ruled that Volkswagen must pay compensation to a motorist who had bought one of its diesel minivans fitted with emissions-cheating software. The ruling sets a benchmark for about 60,000 other cases in Germany. The plaintiff, Herbert Gilbert, will […]
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Coronavirus: Americans flock to beaches on Memorial Day weekend
Coronavirus: Americans flock to beaches on Memorial Day weekend Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionIn Missouri, revellers partied on the Lake of the Ozarks, violating social-distancing rules Americans have flocked to beaches and lakes for Memorial Day weekend, often flouting restrictions imposed to tackle the coronavirus outbreak. In Florida, state police dispersed an unauthorised gathering of hundreds of […]