Community privacy concerns have forced the Australian Government to insist a coronavirus tracing app will neither track people's locations nor be available for law enforcement agencies to access
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Crops at risk as coronavirus lockdown grounds bees
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How the Covid-19 pandemic may reshape US hospital design
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Australia has chanced upon an exciting new possibility – the prospect of eliminating the new coronavirus. Completely. Not just flattening the curve but crushing it.
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Sweeping testing of the entire crew of the coronavirus-stricken US aircraft carrier finds that about 60% of positive cases have not shown symptoms
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How the ‘1984’ scenario failed in Moscow
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Nearly 11,000,000 kilograms of strawberries might get thrown in the trash in California each week due to weakened demand caused by coronavirus
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Victoria has recorded just one new coronavirus case in the past 24 hours
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has accused an unidentified north-west Tasmanian aged care worker of being dishonest about their contacts
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Border wall work in Arizona speeds up, igniting contagion fears
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How the anti-vaccine community is responding to COVID-19
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A failure, but not of prediction
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Tax change in US coronavirus package overwhelmingly benefits millionaires, congressional body finds
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Millennials are now the new lost generation
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Google announces a Journalism Emergency Relief Fund for local newsrooms
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Denmark may issue securities in foreign currencies for the first time in years to finance programs to support the economy through the coronavirus crisis
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Amazon threatens to suspend French deliveries after court order
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Copper-coated doorknobs to kill COVID? It makes sense, say scientists
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Sling TV gives America free fourteen-day 'quarantine offer,' supports local and state shelter-in-place orders
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A Perth man has become the first person in Australia to be jailed for breaching emergency coronavirus laws after he repeatedly snuck out of his hotel room while he was supposed to be in quarantine
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Australian government plans to bring in mobile phone app to track people with coronavirus
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Saudi Arabia races to contain epidemic in Islam’s holiest city
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South Dakota’s governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots
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California, Oregon & Washington announce Western States Pact
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Top US pork producer shuts key plant and warns of meat shortfall
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Mayor London Breed’s early and aggressive moves to contain the outbreak have made San Francisco a national model in fighting the pandemic
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Clever and stupid in equal measure, Taskmaster is the ideal quarantine show
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A trio broke the Cannonball Run record by almost an hour, completing it in 26:38
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America: 200 years of responding to epidemics from The Saturday Evening Post
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The big lesson from South Korea's coronavirus response: Testing and tracing were the key to slowing the spread of coronavirus
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey donates $1 billion for COVID-19 relief worldwide
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Amazon warehouse warned staff not to touch shipments for twenty-four hours
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For jobless Americans, Obamacare is still a potential lifeline
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I have asthma. Am I more at risk of having a severe coronavirus infection?
Here's the article: I have asthma. Am I more at risk of having a severe coronavirus infection? Here's the key point: at this stage, there's no evidence to indicate that people with asthma — even...
Here's the article: I have asthma. Am I more at risk of having a severe coronavirus infection?
Here's the key point:
at this stage, there's no evidence to indicate that people with asthma — even those with severe asthma — are more prone than others to becoming seriously ill with a COVID-19 infection
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China ends Wuhan lockdown after more than ten weeks, but normal life is still a distant dream
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New Zealand isn’t just flattening the curve. It’s squashing it
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The bar necessities: Five ways to understand coronavirus graphs
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US President Donald Trump removes Inspector General overseeing $2 trillion coronavirus relief package days after he was appointed
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New Zealand Health Minister David Clark demoted after driving 20km to beach, breaking lockdown rules
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Now that Australia appears to have got the coronavirus under control, it faces an even more disturbing choice on how to end the epidemic
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Read about a new COVID-19 treatment study? It probably won't work
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Acting US Navy Secretary: 'I stand by every word I said' after leak of carrier speech
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Novelist Arundhati Roy on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next
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Australia should be moving to utilise people who have recovered from coronavirus and developed immunity against the virus to bolster essential services, a leading expert says
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Boston authorities shut down GameStop and stores close statewide
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Scotland's chief medical officer has resigned after making two trips to her second home during the coronavirus lockdown
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Food shortages? Nope, too much food in the wrong places.
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Scientists in Melbourne are testing a drug used to fight parasitic worms and bugs – in the hope of destroying coronavirus
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Australians advised not to wear face masks amid coronavirus pandemic
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'We will now see the benefits': Case increase in Australia slows as lockdown takes effect
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