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Qantas passengers urged to seek health advice after case of coronavirus confirmed on board

Passengers who travelled on a Qantas flight from Melbourne to Brisbane last week have been told to seek health advice after a traveller on board tested positive for coronavirus. 




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Yoga teacher claims coronavirus lockdown is to blame for his driving offences

James 'Mantra' Schultz was caught driving on a demerit point suspended license at Mansfield, in Brisbane's south, on March 24.




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Coronavirus lockdown dodger 'BITES a police officer' trying to break up an illegal party

Police were called to dismantle the party at a unit southwest of Brisbane on Thursday evening.




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Coronavirus UK: Nadine Dorries tests positive for infection

Ms Dorries has sent a message to the Tory MP WhatsApp group this morning asking them to come forward if they were near her in Parliament because it is 'hard to remember everyone'.




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Coronavirus infected Nadine Dorries attended string of public events at Westminster

Nadine Dorries attended a string of public events around Westminster, coming close to hundreds of people in the toxic two-week period where she may have been carrying coronavirus.




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Coronavirus UK: Boris Johnson won't shut schools to halt spread

Boris Johnson is chairing the emergency Cobra committee later where the UK's tactics will shift from 'containing' the killer disease to merely 'delaying' its inevitable spread.




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Coronavirus UK: Boris Johnson warns we 'may lose loved ones'

Boris Johnson declared that the UK's tactics have shifted from 'containing' the killer disease to merely 'delaying' its inevitable spread after chairing a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee.




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Coronavirus UK: Nadine Dorries reveals mother, 84, has virus

Nadine Dorries, a Tory health minister and Mid Bedfordshire MP who is self-isolating, reassured that her elderly parent is 'doing ok'.




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Coronavirus UK: Nadine Dorries has Twitter spat with MP's wife

Nevena Bridgen (right), whose husband Andrew (left together) is self-isolating, blasted the Mid-Bedfordshire MP, 62, on Twitter, accusing her of not revealing her diagnosis soon enough.




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Coronavirus UK: Jeremy Hunt blasts Boris Johnson's strategy

Mr Hunt, who since leaving the cabinet is chair of the Commons health and social care select committee, believes the Prime Minister should be doing more to encourage social distancing.




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Coronavirus UK: Elderly given conflicting advice by government

Charities warned that many pensioners would be confused about what they were being asked to do after Grant Shapps (pictured) said they were allowed to go out to walk the dog..




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Coronavirus UK: Elderly 'should stay at home for three months'

Boris Johnson acknowledged that 'drastic action' was required to quell the spread of the deadly coronavirus at the first of his new daily briefings from Downing Street on COVID-19.




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UK diagnoses 407 new coronavirus cases in a day to total of 1,950

The Department of Health has confirmed 1,557 tests in England have come back positive, along with 136 in Wales, 195 in Scotland and 62 in Northern Ireland.




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Coronavirus UK: Government to pay 80% wages to stop layoffs

Chancellor Rish Sunak and Boris Johnson are unveiling a massive new coronavirus rescue package after furious complaints that they are not doing enough for ordinary people.




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Carrie Symonds has got coronavirus: Boris Johnson's pregnant fiancee reveals she has tested positive

Ms Symonds said: 'I've spent the past week in bed with the main symptoms of Coronavirus. I haven't needed to be tested and, after seven days of rest, I feel stronger and I'm on the mend.'




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Government launches bizarre series of corny coronavirus adverts to get them shared online

The adverts, which include deliberate errors, are designed to be mocked online so that people share them and spread the 'stay at home' message.




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Forcing suspected coronavirus patients into quarantine 'causes long-term mental health problems'

King's College London researchers found the psychological effects can last months and even years after the event. Pictured: Brits are whisked into quarantine after being flown home from Japan.




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Paulina Porizkova shows off sweater she knitted while quarantined amid coronavirus pandemic

Paulina, 54, took to Instagram on Monday to share a photo of herself modeling a brown, orange, and cream cardigan that she had knit.




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Self-isolation amid coronavirus pandemic could lead to deteriorating health

In an article for The Conversation, Dr Kimberley Smith of the University of Surrey explains her latest research into the negative health affects of isolation and loneliness,




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Coronavirus US: Dr. Oz urges couples to have regular SEX while quarantined

Dr. Mehmet Oz, 59, is encouraging couples to have sex while quarantined during the coronavirus pandemic, saying it's 'the best solution' for depression.




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Coronavirus pandemic could be like the Great Depression with double-digit unemployment

Digital Finance Analytics principal Martin North said that in a 'worst case' scenario, unemployment could surge to 14 per cent to levels unseen in Australia since the early 1930s Great Depression.




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Bank of America says US is ALREADY in coronavirus recession

'We are officially declaring that the economy has fallen into a recession ... joining the rest of the world, and it is a deep plunge,' said BoA. 'Jobs will be lost, wealth will be destroyed.'




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Loose Women's Denise Welch admits she keeps calling ITV's Dr Hilary about the coronavirus

TV personality Denise Welch, 61, spoke with Lorraine Kelly via video link from Cheshire this morning, to discuss how to deal with anxiety while isolating amid the coronavirus crisis.




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ALEX BRUMMER: Boris Johnson's Government is going for broke to fight coronavirus

ALEX BRUMMER writes: The Government and Chancellor Rishi Sunak (pictured) is sparing no effort as they battles to stop the coronavirus.




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How to cope with anxiety and stress during coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Sydney psychologist Lorraine Corne specialises in treating anxiety and depression. She says perspective is the greatest antidote to panic and urges people to remember that 'this too shall pass'.




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Eva Amurri opens up about postpartum depression amid the coronavirus scare: 'It's a blur'

Just weeks after giving birth to her third child, Eva Amurri is opening up about postpartum depression in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.




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Coronavirus crisis could cause a loneliness epidemic in older adults

The findings were based on surveys concerning feelings of loneliness and local amenities undertaken in Finland, Poland and Spain between 2011-2012.




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RABBI LORD JONATHAN SACKS: Shared hell of WWII changed Britain for the better - so will coronavirus 

RABBI LORD JONATHAN SACKS: When this bleak time is over, when schools and pubs and theatres reopen, when we no longer need fear the warmth of a handshake or the closeness of friends...




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The number of Australian businesses coronavirus has shut downs as Jobkeeper wage subsidies start

One in two Australian workers could soon be receiving a $1,500 fortnightly wage subsidy to be kept in work. Daily Mail Australia looks at the services jobs coronavirus has destroyed overnight.




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Investor warned clients about coronavirus and markets collapse, says stocks aren't close to a bottom

Hedge fund manager Dan Niles, who warned clients of the oncoming impact of the coronavirus on global markets, projects up to another potential 30% drop from March's end point is coming.




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How rich Australians could be paying higher income taxes to fund coronavirus stimulus measures

Griffith University politics lecturer Paul Williams said even a Coalition government would have to consider raising taxes on high income earners to fund job creation programs for COVID-19 victims.




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Coronavirus crisis could push unemployment levels in UK and US beyond 1930s Great Depression

David Blanchflower, who was part of the Bank during the 2008 financial crisis, said unemployment is rising at the fastest rate in living memory as job losses mount around the world and in the UK.




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Sydney and Melbourne house prices tipped to crash by 50 per cent as coronavirus sparks an depression

Bestselling author Harry Dent, who predicted the US real estate bubble before the GFC, said Australian house prices would halve as coronavirus caused a depression.




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G20 urged to create $193bn fundto tackle coronavirus by former leaders including Tony Blair

A letter signed by global leaders past and present has urged G20 to prevent a 'global recession becoming a global depression'. Tony Blair and Gordon, among other signatures, support the creation of an $193bn fund.




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Artist, 33, shares powerful image to convey why she is 'not okay' during the coronavirus pandemic

An artist, designer and mother has shared a powerful image to show why her mental health is struggling during the coronavirus pandemic - and it has struck a chord with thousands online.




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Australians struggling with anxiety about coronavirus crisis should be treated with MDMA, MP says 

Mind Medicine Australia (MMA) has urged the Government to create a mental health taskforce for COVID-19.




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China's economy shrinks by a record 6.8 per cent in the March quarter of 2020 because of coronavirus

China, Australia's biggest trading partner, has suffered its worst economic contraction since Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution ended in 1976. Here's what it means for you.




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The jobs surviving the coronavirus crisis with unemployment tipped to double by June to 10 per cent

Teachers, nurses, doctors, garbage collectors and supermarket shop assistants are the Australians least likely to lose their jobs as coronavirus causes unemployment to double.




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How stamp duty and payroll tax could be replaced to spark a coronavirus economic recovery

Former Telstra boss David Thodey has written a report for the New South Wales Treasury exploring how taxes on home buyers and employers can be scrapped.




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Graphs show how mental health of every US generation has suffered amid the coronavirus pandemic 

New graphs from NRC Health show that all generations, including Generation Z, Millennials, Generation X, Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation reported worsening mental health.




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SQM Research fears Sydney and Melbourne house prices could plunge 30 per cent because of coronavirus

SQM Research chief executive Louis Christopher fears COVID-19 shutdowns and a halt in immigration will cause Sydney and Melbourne house prices to plunge by almost a third by 2021.




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Unemployment could hit 10% thanks to coronavirus

The economic shock of coronavirus in Australia has smashed jobs and businesses faster than the Great Depression.




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Grandfather who survived Spanish Flu and World War II beats coronavirus on his 107th birthday

Rudolph 'Rudi' Heider battled the deadly virus for weeks at a nursing home in Chesterfield, Missouri, before he was finally cleared to come out of quarantine on Tuesday - his 107th birthday.




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Coronavirus US: Trump aide optimistic despite 30m unemployed

Larry Kudlow said Friday that even though the second quarter of fiscal year 2020 will be worse than the first, he believes the 'worst is nearly over' of economic depression from coronavirus.




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Scientists to test if drugs for cancer, depression and high blood pressure can treat coronavirus

Researchers say the drugs may help treat a variety of conditions caused by the coronavirus including stopping the virus from entering cells, preventing lung damage and abating inflammation.




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Democrats will unveil a 'Rooseveltian' rescue package for next stage of coronavirus bailout

Chuck Schumer said Thursday Democrats are looking to pass a relief package as massive and far-reaching as those implemented during the Great Depression under Franklin D. Roosevelt.




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'This is going to go away without a vaccine': Donald Trump shrugs off concerns about coronavirus

President Donald Trump on Friday predicted the coronavirus would 'go away without a vaccine' and vowed that America is going to 'transition to greatness.'




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DWTS winner Nyle DiMarco 'really sick' with suspected coronavirus

Nyle DiMarco believes he has contracted the COVID-19 virus.




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David Cameron pays tribute to his former Oxford University tutor who has died from coronavirus

Economist Peter Sinclair, 73, was the former Prime Minister's tutor when he studied philosophy, politics and economics at Brasenose College in the 1980s.




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Coronavirus: World leaders send messages of support to 'dear' Boris Johnson

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a message to Prime Minister Boris Johnson today that he wanted to 'express my sincere support at this difficult moment for you', according to the Kremlin.