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Coronavirus live news: UN warns of 'biblical' famine; first case seen in Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Fears of prolonged coronavirus downturn and second wave of US cases
Revealed: Private firm running UK PPE stockpile was sold in middle of pandemic
CDC chief warns of 'even more difficult' wave of coronavirus next winter
Europe had hottest year on record in 2019, report shows
Coronavirus pandemic 'will cause famine of biblical proportions'
Islamist group kills 52 in 'cruel and diabolical' Mozambique massacre
Mystery bird illness investigated after German blue tit deaths
Microplastics found for first time in Antarctic ice where krill source food
A fresh crackdown in Hong Kong 'will result in deaths', says democracy leader
Four police officers killed in serious crash on Melbourne freeway
Trump administration challenged to reveal troops levels in war zones
Nova Scotia shooting: death toll rises to 22 as more victims identified
Spanish police arrest former British rapper turned Isis extremist
The urban wild: animals take to the streets amid lockdown – in pictures
Man arrested after shots apparently fired from balcony in Kent
'I thought it would be like 28 Days Later': from Big Brother to lockdown life
Georgia's Covid-19 reopening pits white governor against black mayors
'Like the horror of war': mayor of virus-ravaged Ecuador city calls for drastic response
Australia coronavirus update live: NRL announces it will restart play on 28 May – latest news
Ramadan in Somalia: fears coronavirus cases will climb as gatherings continue
'Millions hang by a thread': extreme global hunger compounded by Covid-19
What is the EU medical equipment scheme and why did UK opt out?
'What better time than now?' Fears China will use crises to cement grip on Hong Kong
Failure to protect: who is to blame for Britain's coronavirus crisis?
Our hospital, our NHS: what it was like to photograph an ICU in the Covid-19 crisis | Jonny Weeks
Planes grounded by coronavirus pandemic sit idle at airports around the world – in pictures
Hancock: UK human trials for coronavirus vaccine to begin on Thursday – video
Bolsonaro won't help with coronavirus, so Brazil's favelas are helping themselves - video
What do you want the post-coronavirus future to look like? – video
'Our lives are expendable': NYC subway workers speak out after dozens of Covid-19 deaths

Coronavirus live news: UN warns of 'biblical' famine; first case seen in Palestinian refugees in Lebanon

Posted: 22 Apr 2020 04:33 AM PDT

Trump to halt immigration for 60 days initially; 256m people could starve, says UN; cases worldwide pass 2.5 million

12.14pm BST

Spain has been in lockdown since 14 March, and the confinement is set to run until at least 9 May.

Some, however, have found an upside to being cooped up with their families and believe the lockdown has served to strengthen the sense of community.

12.11pm BST

More than 24,000 #COVID19 cases have been reported on the African continent - with over 6,250 recoveries and 1,100 deaths. View country figures & more with the WHO African Region COVID-19 Dashboard: https://t.co/V0fkK8dYTg pic.twitter.com/azrg6Yc4g3

Fears of prolonged coronavirus downturn and second wave of US cases

Posted: 21 Apr 2020 10:08 PM PDT

Business chiefs expect lengthy period before recovery as CDC chief warns of worse to come during US winter

The prospect of a prolonged worldwide impact from the coronavirus pandemic has hardened after business leaders warned of a drawn-out recession and US health chiefs highlighted the prospect of a second wave of US cases in winter.

As financial markets staggered under fresh blows to the global oil industry on Wednesday, a survey of thousands of bosses revealed that they fear many companies will not survive the onslaught.

Revealed: Private firm running UK PPE stockpile was sold in middle of pandemic

Posted: 22 Apr 2020 02:00 AM PDT

Movianto was also involved in legal disputes with firm that built warehouse to store equipment

The warehouse appears unremarkable, except for its size. Just off a motorway on an industrial estate in Merseyside sits a 35,000 sq m (377,000 sq ft) purpose-built warehouse with 20 loading docks to enable the storage and rapid distribution of hundreds of millions of face masks, aprons, gowns, gloves and body bags.

For security reasons, the Guardian has been asked not to disclose the precise location of the UK's stockpile of personal protective equipment (PPE) for use in a pandemic. It is being stored on a site where builders moved the equivalent of more than 90 Olympic–size swimming pools of earth to make way for a vast, climate-controlled warehouse.

CDC chief warns of 'even more difficult' wave of coronavirus next winter

Posted: 21 Apr 2020 05:24 PM PDT

Robert Redfield's remarks to Washington Post come as hydroxychloroquine trial finds no benefit against virus

A leading US public health official warned on Tuesday that a new wave of coronavirus hitting the US next winter could be "even more difficult" for America to deal with than the current outbreak.

And in a double blow for the prospect of ending the coronavirus pandemic, a US trial of the controversial treatment Donald Trump has referred to as "like a miracle" has produced poor results.

Europe had hottest year on record in 2019, report shows

Posted: 22 Apr 2020 03:00 AM PDT

Findings confirm 11 of the 12 warmest years in Europe occurred in past two decades

Europe had its hottest year on record last year, new data has confirmed, with periods of exceptional heat last February, June and July, and one of the wettest Novembers on record.

Previous records were broken by only a small margin, but the findings confirmed that 11 out of the 12 warmest years in Europe have occurred in the past two decades, according to the European State of the Climate 2019 report, published on Wednesday.

Coronavirus pandemic 'will cause famine of biblical proportions'

Posted: 21 Apr 2020 03:34 PM PDT

Governments must act now to stop 265 million starving, warns World Food Programme boss

The world is facing widespread famine "of biblical proportions" because of the coronavirus pandemic, the chief of the UN's food relief agency has warned, with a short time to act before hundreds of millions starve.

More than 30 countries in the developing world could experience widespread famine, and in 10 of those countries there are already more than 1 million people on the brink of starvation, said David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Programme.

Islamist group kills 52 in 'cruel and diabolical' Mozambique massacre

Posted: 22 Apr 2020 03:08 AM PDT

Police say villagers were killed, most beheaded or shot, after some refused to join extremists

An Islamist extremist group in northern Mozambique has killed dozens of villagers in its most bloody attack.

More than 50 people were massacred in an attack in Xitaxi in Muidumbe district after locals refused to be recruited to its ranks, according to police cited by local media. Most were either shot dead or beheaded.

Mystery bird illness investigated after German blue tit deaths

Posted: 22 Apr 2020 03:14 AM PDT

More than 11,000 cases of dead and sick birds reported in past fortnight

Thousands of blue tits have been found sick or dead in Germany, prompting an investigation by conservation groups and scientists.

More than 11,000 cases of dead and sick birds, mostly blue tits, have been reported to the German conservation group NABU in the past fortnight. Most of these are reported from the west of Germany.

The blue tit is found across Europe and is one of the most common visitors to UK gardens. They eat insects, caterpillars, seeds and nuts and can be spotted all year round in the UK, with the exception of some Scottish islands.

According to NABU, symptoms of the diseased birds include breathing problems, no longer taking food and making no attempt to escape when approached by people. The group is advising people to stop feeding or providing drinking troughs for birds to reduce the risk of transmission between them.

The first laboratory test results on the dead birds have found a bacterial infection (Suttonella ornithocola) that has been known in the UK since the 1990s and which affects birds similarly. The infection was reported in Germany in 2018. Further test results on birds are expected over the next few days.

The infection discovered causes pneumonia in tits – predominantly blue tits – and they become lethargic with fluffed-up plumage and breathing difficulties. There are no reports of this affecting any other animals apart from birds.

Microplastics found for first time in Antarctic ice where krill source food

Posted: 22 Apr 2020 01:28 AM PDT

Researchers at University of Tasmania find 14 different kinds of plastic smaller than 5mm in an ice core from 2009

Small pieces of plastic have been detected in sea ice in Antarctica for what scientists believe is the first time.

Microplastics have previously been discovered in Antarctica's surface waters, sediment and in snow, but the new discovery could mean the region's krill – which feed on algae from sea ice – may be more exposed to the plastic.

A fresh crackdown in Hong Kong 'will result in deaths', says democracy leader

Posted: 21 Apr 2020 11:14 PM PDT

Martin Lee, who was arrested on Saturday, says protests will turn fatal if authorities go ahead with expected national security push

Martin Lee, the 81-year-old founder of Hong Kong's Democratic party, has said there will be more fatalities and protests if authorities try to pass anti-subversion laws – which would outlaw "sedition, subversion and the theft of state secrets" – before the September legislature election.

"It will result in deaths for sure," he told the Guardian. "The Communist party won't show any mercy. They have already stated their stance."

Four police officers killed in serious crash on Melbourne freeway

Posted: 22 Apr 2020 03:53 AM PDT

Victoria police commissioner says the incident is the largest single loss of life among officers in the state's history

Four police officers have been killed in a serious crash involving a truck on a Melbourne freeway.

The collision happened on the Eastern Freeway near the Chandler Highway at Kew about 5.40pm on Wednesday.

Trump administration challenged to reveal troops levels in war zones

Posted: 22 Apr 2020 02:30 AM PDT

Freedom of information request filed after Pentagon stopped publishing figures for Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria

The Trump administration is being challenged to reveal how many troops the US has in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria – and to explain why it stopped publishing those figures more than two years ago.

The Just Security website and the Project on Government Oversight have filed requests under the Freedom of Information Act (Foia) for the number of military and civilian defence personnel assigned to the three countries since December 2017, when public records were stopped. They also requested "underlying documents that explain why the [defence department] withheld the numbers".

Nova Scotia shooting: death toll rises to 22 as more victims identified

Posted: 21 Apr 2020 01:25 PM PDT

Portraits of those killed emerge while police search 16 crime scenes across Canadian province

Nova Scotia shooting: friends and family pay tribute to 'beautiful souls' lost in rampage

Police in Canada have updated the death toll of the country's worst mass shooting to 22, as more victims from the gun rampage in Nova Scotia were publicly identified.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) had previously warned the death toll would increase as investigators combed through several homes intentionally set ablaze by the gunman in a 12-hour rampage that started late on Saturday in the town of Portapique. On Tuesday, 16 separate crime scenes were being examined across the province.

Spanish police arrest former British rapper turned Isis extremist

Posted: 21 Apr 2020 10:46 AM PDT

Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, from Maida Vale, was one of most wanted militants in Europe

Spanish police have arrested a former British rapper turned Islamic State extremist, Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, one of the most wanted militants in Europe, in a counter-terrorism swoop on Tuesday.

British and other sources confirmed his identity a few hours after the national police agency in Madrid said it had arrested an Egyptian national and two other men in a flat in the southern Spanish city of Almeria.

The urban wild: animals take to the streets amid lockdown – in pictures

Posted: 22 Apr 2020 03:00 AM PDT

Animals have started taking advantage of cities as they enter lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic. From New Delhi, India to Buenos Aires, Argentina, groups of animals including deer and lemurs have started to come out to explore – in search of food or just to play

Man arrested after shots apparently fired from balcony in Kent

Posted: 22 Apr 2020 02:43 AM PDT

Suspect in his 30s held on suspicion of firearms offences after incident in Chatham

Armed police have arrested a man on suspicion of firearms offence after a person appeared to be seen firing a weapon from a balcony in Chatham in Kent.

Kent police urged the public to stay away from the Dockside area of the town after video appeared to show nine shots being fired from a top-floor balcony.

'I thought it would be like 28 Days Later': from Big Brother to lockdown life

Posted: 22 Apr 2020 03:37 AM PDT

Daniel Glasman entered the Swedish version of the show before anyone in Europe had died with Covid-19, but came out to a continent in quarantine

The outbreak of the coronavirus has forced people around the world to change their routines and get used to spending more time than usual confined to their homes. The contestants on Sweden's version of Big Brother, though, have been adjusting to this for weeks.

When Daniel Glasman entered the Big Brother house in early February, there had been only a handful of confirmed cases of Covid-19 across Europe and no one on the continent had died with the illness. Fifty days later, when he returned to his home in Stockholm, he could not have been prepared for what awaited him.

Georgia's Covid-19 reopening pits white governor against black mayors

Posted: 22 Apr 2020 03:00 AM PDT

African Americans account for 54% of state's known Covid-19 deaths while Atlanta's mayor unveils her own reopening council

On Monday, Georgia's governor, Brian Kemp, announced his decision to reopen the state for business.

Non-essential businesses, including tattoo parlors, hair salons, movie theaters and bowling alleys, will be authorized to reopen from Friday, if they follow social distancing orders.

'Like the horror of war': mayor of virus-ravaged Ecuador city calls for drastic response

Posted: 22 Apr 2020 03:40 AM PDT

Cynthia Viteri, leader of Latin America's hardest-hit city, says Guayaquil offers a lesson to other governments

The mayor of the Latin American city hardest hit by the coronavirus has urged regional governments to take drastic steps to slow its spread and avoid the devastation she said had left Guayaquil looking like a war zone.

Cynthia Viteri told the Guardian she believed thousands had probably lost their lives in the Ecuadorian port city in recent weeks and compared Covid-19's deadly impact there to "an unexpected bomb falling on a peaceful town".

Australia coronavirus update live: NRL announces it will restart play on 28 May – latest news

Posted: 22 Apr 2020 04:14 AM PDT

Energy minister Angus Taylor says 'now is the time to buy fuel' as Senate committee into government's response to Covid-19 crisis prepares for first hearing. Follow live

12.01pm BST

We're closing our Covid-19 live coverage for the night. Thanks from me, Graham Readfearn, and from my colleagues Calla Wahlquist, Josh Taylor and Amy Remeikis who have been delivering live coverage here over the past 13 hours.

You can follow the Guardian's global live coverage of the pandemic here.

11.36am BST

Terrible news on the crash on Melbourne's Eastern Freeway. Four on-duty police officers have died.

Four on duty police officers have sadly been killed in a vehicle collision in Kew tonight.

Detectives from the Major Collision Investigation Unit are currently at the scene and are investigating.

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Ramadan in Somalia: fears coronavirus cases will climb as gatherings continue

Posted: 21 Apr 2020 11:00 PM PDT

Government rejects claim by militant groups that the virus does not harm Muslims and imposes night-time curfew

Somalia has recorded a rise in coronavirus cases in the past week, with the majority of those affected reportedly young people.

So far there have been 237 confirmed cases and eight deaths in the country. A member of parliament and a state minister are among those who have died.

'Millions hang by a thread': extreme global hunger compounded by Covid-19

Posted: 21 Apr 2020 08:01 AM PDT

Coronavirus 'potentially catastrophic' for nations already suffering food insecurity caused by famine, migration and unemployment

The warning from the World Food Programme (WFP) that an extra 265 million people could be pushed into acute food insecurity by Covid-19, almost doubling last year's total, is based on a complex combination of factors.

WFP's latest warning underlines the increasing concern among experts in the field that for many the biggest impact will not be the disease, but the hunger hanging off its coat tails.

What is the EU medical equipment scheme and why did UK opt out?

Posted: 22 Apr 2020 02:21 AM PDT

British government is facing criticism for not taking part in joint purchase of supplies amid the coronavirus pandemic

The British government is coming under fire for failing to join the EU's procurement scheme for medical equipment, including masks, gloves, goggles, gowns, testing kits and ventilators, at a time when NHS health workers across the country are crying out for more supplies. In the latest twist, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, was forced to deny claims, later retracted, by the government's senior diplomat that it had been a "political decision" to opt out of the scheme.

'What better time than now?' Fears China will use crises to cement grip on Hong Kong

Posted: 21 Apr 2020 05:47 PM PDT

Recent arrests and posturing signal a turbulent future amid calls from Beijing for national security legislation to be expedited

"Thus we left Hong Kong to her fate and the hope that Martin Lee, the leader of the Democrats, would not be arrested," wrote Prince Charles in his journal after Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997.

Twenty-three years later, his premonitions unfortunately came true. Lee, the 81-year-old founder of the Democratic party and a senior barrister, was among 15 veteran pro-democracy activists arrested by Hong Kong police on Saturday on charges of illegal assembly, accused of being involved in unapproved protests last year.

Failure to protect: who is to blame for Britain's coronavirus crisis?

Posted: 21 Apr 2020 12:30 PM PDT

A number of prominent people are being criticised for their shortcomings over Covid-19

The UK's Covid-19 crisis has reached the blame phase, with Boris Johnson, ministers, civil servants and scientists coming under criticism that they underestimated the threat, were slow to act and are bungling the country's response amid a wave of deaths.

So who is in the line of fire – and why?

Our hospital, our NHS: what it was like to photograph an ICU in the Covid-19 crisis | Jonny Weeks

Posted: 21 Apr 2020 08:55 AM PDT

A week in a Coventry hospital documenting the work of NHS staff brought the human dimensions of this crisis home to me

Like many people around the country, I stand on my front doorstep at 8pm every Thursday to clap for carers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet when I did so for the first time last month, not knowing for sure if my neighbours would join me, I realised I knew little of the people for whom I was clapping.

Who are the nurses, doctors, cleaners, clerks, porters, researchers and consultants on whom so many lives depend?

Planes grounded by coronavirus pandemic sit idle at airports around the world – in pictures

Posted: 21 Apr 2020 07:54 PM PDT

As travel restrictions in response to the pandemic savagely cut the number of flights, airlines are scrambling to find places to park their redundant planes

Hancock: UK human trials for coronavirus vaccine to begin on Thursday – video

Posted: 21 Apr 2020 09:48 AM PDT

Matt Hancock, the health secretary, has announced that he is making £20m available to an Oxford team to accelerate trials for a coronavirus vaccine that will be trialled on people from Thursday.

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Bolsonaro won't help with coronavirus, so Brazil's favelas are helping themselves - video

Posted: 21 Apr 2020 07:21 AM PDT

Brazil's President Bolsonaro has described coronavirus as a "little flu" and resisted lockdown measures even as the death toll rises. But in Rio's poorest favelas, where people live in overcrowded conditions and lack proper sanitation, they are bracing for the worst. Buba Aguiar is an activist in Acari who is taking matters into her own hands, soliciting online donations to buy food parcels and basic coronavirus kit - soap, masks - for her neighbours who cannot afford to stop working and stay at home. As Acari records its first coronavirus death, we follow Buba through a typical day fighting to help her community in the face of government inaction.

Lockdowns leave poor Latin Americans with impossible choice: stay home or feed families

What do you want the post-coronavirus future to look like? – video

Posted: 21 Apr 2020 04:39 AM PDT

The impact of the coronavirus crisis could ripple through every layer of our social fabric.

We want to hear what you are concerned about, hopeful for, or even looking forward to in a changed future, for a Guardian video series in which we will discuss how life may be different. What are the best things about our society that should be protected for future generations, and where can we see a need for change?

Click here to submit your thoughts.

'Our lives are expendable': NYC subway workers speak out after dozens of Covid-19 deaths

Posted: 21 Apr 2020 02:30 AM PDT

Transit workers in New York City are afraid to go back to work after 68 employees have died from coronavirus, and say authorities could have done more to protect them.

'They want to call us heroes now, but how can you call up heroes when you didn't give your heroes proper equipment to fight this,' said conductor Tramell Thompson.

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