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Coronavirus: US fatalities slow but total tops 37,000 — as it happened
Coronavirus: US death toll nears 40,000 — as it happened
Italy to lay out strategy this week on its plans to ease Covid-19 restrictions. Global stocks under pressure as oil tumbles again. England and Wales record 75 per cent more weekly overall deaths than normal.
Read moreCoronavirus: US death toll tops 42,000 — as it happened
Number of global cases of Covid-19 nears 2.5m, international oil prices tumble to lowest levels since the 1990s, Heineken hit as pandemic cuts into beer drinking globally.
Read moreCoronavirus: Congress passes $484bn interim stimulus package — as it happened
US job gains since financial crisis wiped out. Switzerland faces sharpest economic contraction since 1974. UK and eurozone business activity hit by historic collapse this month as lockdowns choked Europe’s biggest economies.
Read moreCoronavirus: US business leaders call for co-ordinated approach — as it happened
The number of US deaths attributed to Covid-19 surpassed 45,000 on Friday, while the rate of new cases remained flat
Read moreCoronavirus: US death toll approaches 50,000 — as it happened
British fatalities rise by 813 with almost 150,000 infected; Spain prepares to ease restrictions slightly as daily deaths remain below 400
Read moreCoronavirus: Small business loan scheme capped for US banks — as it happened
In today’s news: UK warns it would be ‘irresponsible’ to discuss easing lockdown. Spain sets out plan to lift its own tough measures. Donald Trump signals a halt to his daily media briefings as US death toll accelerates.
Read moreCoronavirus: Trump makes new push to expand US testing — as it happened
New daily cases of Covid-19 around the globe rose by the lowest amount in 12 days as 73,858 diagnoses were confirmed on Sunday, bringing the total to 2.93m
Read moreCoronavirus: US tops 1m Covid-19 cases — as it happened
Deaths in England and Wales are highest on record in mid-April while cases in the US surpass 1m
Read moreCoronavirus: Record daily increase takes US death toll above 55,000 — as it happened
The worldwide Covid-19 death toll rose by 6,365 on Tuesday, pushing the total through 200,000
Read moreCoronavirus: US death toll rises by more than 2,000 for third straight day — as it happened
Eurozone GDP in historic fall, millions more Americans file for unemployment, Shell cuts dividend for first time since second world war and UK's AstraZeneca combines with Oxford on a potential vaccine
Read moreCoronavirus: BofA says US consumer spending starting to rebound — as it happened
Coronavirus: US death toll tops 60,000 — as it happened
Spain allows outside exercise for the first time in weeks while Russia’s daily case count rises by a fifth
Read moreCoronavirus: US death toll approaches 62,000 — as it happened
Coronavirus: AIG chief warns virus could be industry’s largest catastrophe loss — as it happened
Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez says no other option remains but to maintain the state of alert
Read moreCoronavirus: US deaths spike as fatalities spread outside NY — as it happened
Russia's coronavirus outbreak worsens and Federal Reserve research finds a correlation between deaths from the influenza pandemic in 1918-1920 and extremist voting in Germany in 1932 and 1933
Read moreCoronavirus: NY Fed economists find hardest-hit states received fewer PPP loans — as it happened
The US private sector shed a record 20m jobs in April as coronavirus lockdowns and the resulting closure of non-essential businesses led to historic joblessness
Read moreCoronavirus: US death toll tops 70,000 as New York fatalities top 20,000 — as it happened
BT halts dividend for first time since dot com bubble two decades ago, BA parent IAG warns of further cuts as recovery set to take three years and shoemaker Puma warns worse to come as profits halve in first quarter
Read moreCoronavirus: Pence aide tests positive for Covid-19 — as it happened
Germany's dominant export sector in record decline, South Korea may be forced to close bars and nightclubs after partygoer is found to have infected at least 14 people
Read moreCoronavirus latest: Spain’s Sánchez urges caution as lockdown is eased
Thousands attend military parade in Belarus even as virus spreads rapidly in neighbouring Russia, UK airline industry warns of huge blow if travel quarantine is launched and Seoul closes down bars and clubs in wake of new cluster
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BASF warns of ‘significant impact’ from coronavirus
How will coronavirus change the world? — Parlia launches to help you find out
“Is Greta Thunberg a hypocrite?” Google that phrase and you will get thousands of results. It just goes to show that, to a large extent, the “Q&A” model is broken on the internet. Where once Yahoo Answers and Quora were considered the bright young things of Web 2.0’s “Read/Write Web,” today there is only the […]
Poynter Institute launches WhatsApp chatbot to debunk coronavirus-related hoaxes
You can now debunk thousands of coronavirus-related hoaxes with a few texts on WhatsApp . Poynter Institute, a non-profit organization that supports journalism, today launched a bot on the Facebook -owned service that will allow people across the globe to debunk over 4,000 hoaxes surrounding the pandemic such as whether the infectious disease originated in […]
Facebook’s redesign goes live with simplified navigation and dark mode
After months of testing, Facebook’s redesign is finally official. Announced last year at F8, the more minimalist approach to its desktop design has been rolled out in waves. In March, the company added an option to try out the new version. Users could switch back and leave feedback for why they had done so. This […]
The eurozone is too complacent about the coronavirus threat
Tesla ekes out profit despite coronavirus disruptions
Why the coronavirus crisis won’t mark a peak in oil demand
S&P 500 resilience: weakened by coronavirus
Tinder to add video dating next quarter, after slowing user growth due to coronavirus
Tinder will add a video dating feature in the second quarter of this year, parent company Match announced on Tuesday as part of its Q1 2020 earnings report. The company also detailed the coronavirus impact, which slowed Tinder user growth in the quarter, as social distancing requirements and government lockdowns went into effect. Match didn’t […]