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- Coronavirus live news: Europe fatalities approach 100,000 as China reports no daily deaths
- Trump warns China over Covid-19 outbreak as Europe approaches 100,000 deaths
- 'Major UK city should be used to trial mass coronavirus testing'
- Trump and Fauci: America's future hangs on this delicate relationship
- US and UK condemn arrest of Hong Kong democracy activists
- 44 suspected Boko Haram members found dead in Chad prison
- ‘We’ve been abandoned’: a decade later, Deepwater Horizon still haunts Mexico
- What the butler saw: sex secrets of French presidents' palace revealed
- Medical staff face weeks without protective gowns
- British and Irish journalists mark a year since Lyra McKee murder
- Failure to record ethnicity of Covid-19 victims a 'scandal', says BMA chief
- Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe waiting to hear if she must return to prison
- Lesotho PM under police investigation deploys army to 'restore order'
- Mediterranean shipwrecks reveal 'birth of globalisation' in trade
- Is the cruise industry finally out of its depth?
- Crawley wakes up to the empty skies of the coronavirus crash
- Take me to your Lada: Cuba's passion for a little Russian box
- China 'bars lawyer from going home' after prison release
- Australia coronavirus: some Sydney beaches to reopen for exercise – as it happened
- Trump is playing a deadly game in deflecting Covid-19 blame to China
- Just when Italy really needed some unity, the EU failed it – and continues to do so
- Briefing or rally? Trump shifts to campaign mode as he rails against the media
- Virtual bingo and Notre Dame tolls again: the week's most uplifting clips – video
- 'They seem very responsible to me': Trump defends anti-lockdown protesters - video
| Coronavirus live news: Europe fatalities approach 100,000 as China reports no daily deaths Posted: 19 Apr 2020 02:54 AM PDT Saudia Arabia religious body urges all Muslims to pray at home during Ramadan; Spanish PM seeks lockdown extension
Figures from France's military leadership reveal that more than half the sailors aboard the country's flagship aircraft carrier contracted coronavirus as the ship traveled through the Mediterranean Sea, the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. A navy official says 1,046 of the 1,760 people aboard the Charles de Gaulle tested positive for the virus, according to the Associated Press.
Albania's government plans to allow its mining and oil industries to reopen on Monday, along with hundreds of businesses including small retailers, food and fish processing, farming and fishing. In late March, the country had imposed a 40 hour curfew at the weekend and limited shopping to just one family member, who had to seek permission via an app to leave their home. Continue reading... |
| Trump warns China over Covid-19 outbreak as Europe approaches 100,000 deaths Posted: 18 Apr 2020 08:49 PM PDT President said there should be consequences if Beijing was 'knowingly responsible' for pandemic Donald Trump has warned that China should face consequences if it was "knowingly responsible" for the coronavirus pandemic, as deaths in Europe from Covid-19 approached 100,000. "It could have been stopped in China before it started and it wasn't, and the whole world is suffering because of it," Trump said in his daily White House briefing, as US cases topped 730,000 and fatalities in the country approached 39,000. Continue reading... |
| 'Major UK city should be used to trial mass coronavirus testing' Posted: 18 Apr 2020 11:09 PM PDT Experts say testing an entire urban population would suggest a way out of lockdown A major British city should be used to trial mass testing as a way out of the coronavirus lockdown, according to a group of leading epidemiologists and public health experts. They warn that simply using periods of mass lockdowns and relaxations to control the virus could lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people before a vaccine becomes available "with the most disadvantaged groups experiencing the greatest suffering". Continue reading... |
| Trump and Fauci: America's future hangs on this delicate relationship Posted: 19 Apr 2020 02:00 AM PDT The coronavirus pandemic has created an unlikely pairing as a fearful nation looks to the two men to save it from further disaster As the Aids crisis accelerated in the 1980s, Donald Trump, then building his brand as a boldface name in the New York City tabloids, reacted with paranoia, ruthlessness and bigotry. When his bosom friend and mentor Roy Cohn contracted the virus, Trump "dropped him like a hot potato", Cohn's secretary has said. Trump told dinner guests that following Cohn's final visit to his Mar-a-Lago resort, "I had to spend a fortune to fumigate all the dishes and silverware". The Associated Press reported in 1991 that Trump "asks women to take an Aids test at his doctor's office before he wines and dines them". Continue reading... |
| US and UK condemn arrest of Hong Kong democracy activists Posted: 18 Apr 2020 10:19 PM PDT The arrest of 15 activists is the biggest crackdown on the pro-democracy movement since the coronavirus pandemic began The US and UK have criticised the arrest of 15 Hong Kong democracy activists on charges of organising and participating in anti-government protests last year. The arrests on Saturday were the biggest crackdown on the city's pro-democracy movement since the outbreak of mass protests last year. Continue reading... |
| 44 suspected Boko Haram members found dead in Chad prison Posted: 18 Apr 2020 02:46 PM PDT The group of men appeared to have been poisoned, according to country's chief prosecutor A group of 44 suspected members of Boko Haram who had been arrested in Chad during a recent operation against the jihadist group have been found dead in their prison cell, apparently poisoned, Chad's chief prosecutor has announced. Speaking on national television on Saturday, Youssouf Tom said the prisoners were found dead on Thursday. Autopsies on four dead prisoners revealed traces of a lethal substance which had caused heart attacks in some victims and severe asphyxiation in others, he said. The dead men were among a group of 58 suspects captured during a major army operation around Lake Chad launched by the president, Idriss Déby Itno, at the end of March. Continue reading... |
| ‘We’ve been abandoned’: a decade later, Deepwater Horizon still haunts Mexico Posted: 19 Apr 2020 02:00 AM PDT BP denied the oil reached Mexico, but fisherman and scientists knew it wasn't true. Ten years on, Mexican communities haven't received a cent in compensation Erica Ríos Martínez grew-up in a riverside community filled with food and fiestas thanks to a booming fishing industry which supported tens of thousands of families across the Gulf of Mexico. After high school, Ríos Martínez moved to a nearby town for college which she financed by selling blue crabs, shrimp and tilapia fished by her father in the Tamiahua lagoon – an elongated coastal inlet famed for its abundant shellfish. Continue reading... |
| What the butler saw: sex secrets of French presidents' palace revealed Posted: 19 Apr 2020 12:16 AM PDT For 300 hundred years staff at the Elysée witnessed men flaunting their power over women, but no longer, says author of a new book
From the time of kings and emperors to modern day presidents, the Elysée Palace has stood as a symbol of male dominance in society and politics. Behind the wrought iron gates its gilded salons have witnessed conquests of many kinds – including, frequently, the sexual. Continue reading... |
| Medical staff face weeks without protective gowns Posted: 18 Apr 2020 10:30 PM PDT Anger grows over government failure to stockpile essential PPE for hospital and social care workers Doctors and nurses treating Covid-19 patients face shortages of protective full-length gowns for weeks to come, it has emerged, as anger builds over the failure to stockpile the garments. Critical shortages of the gowns have meant that some trusts have already had to make do with the best available alternatives as a result of the shortages, which forced a sudden change in Public Health England (PHE) guidelines on the use of gowns on Friday. Concerns are being raised within the NHS over why the gowns did not form part of the government's pandemic stockpile. Continue reading... |
| British and Irish journalists mark a year since Lyra McKee murder Posted: 19 Apr 2020 01:19 AM PDT NUJ members celebrate the 'fearlessly questioning' legacy of reporter shot dead during violent clashes in Derry Journalists across Britain and Ireland have marked a year since the murder of Lyra McKee, who was shot dead in Derry by a dissident republican activist as she observed a violent clash between the New IRA and the police. "The greatest tribute we can pay Lyra is to find ways to encourage and promote the kind of imaginative, insightful and brave journalism for which she will be remembered," said Michelle Stanistreet, the general secretary of the National Union of Journalists. Continue reading... |
| Failure to record ethnicity of Covid-19 victims a 'scandal', says BMA chief Posted: 18 Apr 2020 08:00 AM PDT Dr Chaand Nagpaul says data must be gathered now to save lives of UK BAME citizens The government's failure to record and publish real-time data on the ethnicity of Covid-19 patients is a scandal that is endangering lives, according to the chair of the British Medical Association. Speaking to the Observer, Dr Chaand Nagpaul said: "This is not an issue that should require further campaigning. It would be a scandal if it requires further lobbying as data recording needs to start now, not tomorrow. When you have stark statistics like this, it is an instruction for government to act." Continue reading... |
| Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe waiting to hear if she must return to prison Posted: 18 Apr 2020 09:39 AM PDT Spokesperson said on TV her release would be extended but British-Iranian yet to be told Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is waiting to be told whether her temporary release from an Iranian prison is to be extended beyond this weekend, or if she will have to return to complete her five-year sentence on Sunday. The Prosecutors Office in Tehran told the British-Iranian woman's lawyer on Saturday to come back on Sunday for an update on the situation, according to the Free Nazanin Twitter account. Continue reading... |
| Lesotho PM under police investigation deploys army to 'restore order' Posted: 18 Apr 2020 07:03 AM PDT Thomas Thabane faces calls to step down after allegations of possible involvement in murder of ex-wife Lesotho's prime minister announced on Saturday that he had deployed troops in the streets to "restore order", and accused unnamed law enforcement agencies of undermining democracy. Thomas Thabane is under pressure to step down after police said they suspected him of a hand in the murder of his estranged wife in 2017, a case that has thrown the country into political turmoil. Continue reading... |
| Mediterranean shipwrecks reveal 'birth of globalisation' in trade Posted: 18 Apr 2020 07:55 AM PDT Preserved cargoes of vessels linking eastern cultures with western Europe show 'the barbarian Orient' was a trendsetter For almost seven decades archaeologists have searched the eastern Mediterranean in vain for wrecks that sank along antiquity's mighty shipping lanes. Now, though, a British-led team can reveal a spectacular discovery – a fleet of Hellenistic, Roman, early Islamic and Ottoman wrecks that were lost some two kilometres below the waves of the Levantine Basin between the 3rd century BC and the 19th century. Continue reading... |
| Is the cruise industry finally out of its depth? Posted: 19 Apr 2020 02:00 AM PDT Accidents, pollution, exploitation… cruise firms were in murky waters even before Covid-19 "We've been asked – and we've asked ourselves – why Covid-19 seems to be impacting Princess so heavily." Thus spoke Jan Swartz, president of Princess Cruises, in a video posted on social media in mid-March. She looks sad-eyed and baffled into the camera: "We don't really know." Perhaps, she muses, the problem is something to do with the "diverse mix of people onboard our ships" and is "being magnified by our core values to respect, protect and connect the world". She implores her "guests" with a "simple request": "We ask you to book a future Princess cruise to your dream destination … as a symbol to the world that the things that connect us are stronger than those that divide us." Her company does seem to have been terribly unlucky. Their Diamond Princess, quarantined off Yokohama, which suffered over 700 infections and eight deaths among its passengers and crew, was a conspicuous early victim of the pandemic, its global fame growing on wry-turning-to-desperate postings from its passengers. The Ruby Princess, from which 2,700 passengers disembarked in Sydney on March 19, became the single largest source of Covid-19 cases in Australia. The Grand Princess was stuck outside San Francisco, its passengers confined to their cabins, after an outbreak in early March. Something similar happened to the Coral Princess in early April, off the coast of Florida. And this to say nothing of the Caribbean Princess, which has twice this year had to end cruises early, due to hundreds falling ill from a quite different infection, the vomiting bug norovirus. Continue reading... |
| Crawley wakes up to the empty skies of the coronavirus crash Posted: 19 Apr 2020 12:05 AM PDT With most Gatwick flights grounded and a looming economic downturn, residents of West Sussex town fear for their jobs Elizabeth Laker received the email telling her she would be made redundant less than six weeks after discovering she was pregnant. "It took me a couple of days to respond to them. Being pregnant, my hormones were all over the place. I'd done a lot of crying, I wasn't sure how we'd keep a roof over our heads." The 26-year-old from Crawley, who worked in sales, is among thousands in the West Sussex town now facing financial hardship amid the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading... |
| Take me to your Lada: Cuba's passion for a little Russian box Posted: 19 Apr 2020 02:06 AM PDT The rugged Soviet-era car is 50 years old – and in Havana, classic models still sell for the price of a house Landy is a stylish man. He has an ageing crooner's slicked-back hair, the short-sleeved cool of a Miami Beach architect, and a terrible, terrible Lada car. He's my go-to chofer in Havana, which sounds a little grand, but it's more economical than buying one of these babies, which will set you back £15,000. It's also why, despite the windows having no handles (a wrench is passed back) and the rear seat containing a loose spring like an unkind proctologist, Landy fusses over it like a baby. Continue reading... |
| China 'bars lawyer from going home' after prison release Posted: 19 Apr 2020 02:54 AM PDT Wang Quanzhang's wife fears Covid-19 may be used as pretext to keep him under house arrest A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer barred from returning home after his release from prison two weeks ago has been prohibited from reuniting with his family again after a 14-day quarantine period Wang Quanzhang's wife and rights groups fear authorities are using the coronavirus pandemic as a pretext to hold him indefinitely under de facto house arrest. Continue reading... |
| Australia coronavirus: some Sydney beaches to reopen for exercise – as it happened Posted: 19 Apr 2020 01:40 AM PDT Beaches in Randwick council, including Coogee and Maroubra, to reopen, while Waverley mayor says Bondi will remain closed. This blog is now closed
We are going to close this live coverage now. Thank you all for your company and your insights. Below, a summary of today's Covid-19 news in Australia. Be well all of you, and be kind to each other.
For the second straight day, South Australia has reported zero new cases of Covid-19. From SA Health: There have been no new cases of COVID-19 today. There remains a total of 435 cases in South Australia. To date, 354 people have been cleared of COVID-19. There are only 77 active cases in South Australia. This is the third week where we have zero or single digit cases each day, but that should not be a seed for complacency – that should spur us on for even further efforts. We've got to this point through social distancing and border control. There is the chance that people will get slack. Over the next two to four weeks, I would very much encourage the public to hold the course. Continue reading... |
| Trump is playing a deadly game in deflecting Covid-19 blame to China Posted: 19 Apr 2020 01:04 AM PDT As Mr 'Total Authority' keeps his focus firmly on re-election, he risks lives far beyond the United States Many had wondered what would happen when Donald Trump, failed salesman and gameshow host, faced a real crisis. Now they know. The man who pledged to stop "American carnage" in his inaugural address now owns it. Covid-19 has crowned him lord of misrule. Trump is more instinctive dictator than democrat, in the style of his favourite potentate, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Just look at his recent threat to shut down Congress, and his enthusiasm for suppressing minority voter turnout. |
| Just when Italy really needed some unity, the EU failed it – and continues to do so Posted: 18 Apr 2020 10:59 PM PDT Even faced with another great depression, wealthier EU countries are resisting action on debt that could ultimately keep the union together Europe's leaders are worried – and rightly so. The deadly impact of Covid-19 has resulted in a full-scale health crisis. Evidence of the economic consequences of trying to keep populations safe from coronavirus is starting to emerge. The political ramifications are only starting to be assessed – but they could be profound. The European Union has found itself in some tight spots over the years, but always found a way of muddling through. It survived the financial crisis and will cope with Brexit. But this time things are a lot more serious. Continue reading... |
| Briefing or rally? Trump shifts to campaign mode as he rails against the media Posted: 18 Apr 2020 05:44 PM PDT At his latest coronavirus press conference, the president attacked Joe Biden and suggested he might have saved the planet He bashed "Sleepy Joe" Biden. He railed against the Russia investigation and "fake people" in the media. He predicted that had he not been elected, the world might have ended. And somewhere along the way, he talked about the coronavirus. Continue reading... |
| Virtual bingo and Notre Dame tolls again: the week's most uplifting clips – video Posted: 18 Apr 2020 09:05 AM PDT As the world battles the coronavirus pandemic, communities are coming together to support each other through difficult times. Capt Tom Moore, a 99-year-old war veteran, has raised more than £23m for the NHS by walking 100 laps of his garden. Notre Dame Cathedral's bell tolled again in tribute to health workers, and Matthew McConaughey hosted virtual bingo for older self-isolators Continue reading... |
| 'They seem very responsible to me': Trump defends anti-lockdown protesters - video Posted: 18 Apr 2020 02:51 AM PDT The US president urged supporters to 'liberate' three states led by Democratic governors on Friday, apparently encouraging protests against stay-at-home restrictions. 'These are people expressing their views,' Trump said during his daily White House coronavirus briefing. Continue reading... |
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