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- Coronavirus live news: Russia sees near-record jump in cases; Spain recoveries outstrip new infections
- Coronavirus detected on particles of air pollution
- Revealed: 'former Vodafone boss' in 5G conspiracy video is UK pastor
- Nursery, but not as they knew it ... Norway adjusts to life after lockdown
- China to prosecute first foreign national over Hong Kong protests
- Joe Biden warns that Donald Trump may try to delay November election
- German business morale hits record low; UK retail sales tumble - business live
- Mail publisher asks court to strike out Meghan's 'dishonesty' claims
- UK government told not to use Zoom because of China fears
- Kenyan police officer charged with murder of former Leeds student
- Burberry directors take 20% pay cut and 'won't use furlough scheme'
- 'He's Mr Scrooge': Mexican president unveils severe cuts amid coronavirus
- Taylor Swift disowns new live album, calling it 'shameless greed'
- The plight of the cuckoo: a 4,000-mile flight followed by golf
- Why Willem Dafoe, Iggy Pop and more are reading The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to us
- Makeshift oil refineries a necessary evil for locals in north-west Syria
- A whip-smart neurologist, a social worker who sang Broadway: US health workers who died from Covid-19
- Ocean plastic was choking Chile’s shores. Now it’s in Patagonia’s hats
- Australia coronavirus news: fifth Covid-19 death at Sydney's Newmarch House aged care home – as it happened
- Soap and solace scarce as Sri Lanka's tea pickers toil on amid lockdown
- Pandemic potentially a 'death sentence' for many prison inmates, experts warn
- Pandemic could 'turn back the clock' 20 years on malaria deaths, warns WHO
- What will coronavirus mean for the British economy?
- Coronavirus delivers a 'moment of truth' on the meaning of the EU
- Why the UK is finding it so hard to reach 100,000 Covid-19 tests a day
- Italy uses snow cannon to disinfect alpine villages – video
- Trump floats dangerous coronavirus treatment ideas as Dr Birx looks on – video
- ‘We’re also human beings': Uber drivers pay tribute to colleagues lost to Covid-19 – video
- 'Give them PPE!': the UK steps out for fifth weekly clap for key workers – video report
- 'Just dumb': Cuomo slams Mitch McConnell over 'reckless' state bankruptcy proposal – video
- Coronavirus face masks around the world – in pictures
- Scotland publishes framework for coping with 'new normal' of Covid-19 – video
| Posted: 24 Apr 2020 06:59 AM PDT Cases in the Philippines pass 7,000; no deaths in South Korea in last 24 hours; experts reject Trump's disinfectant theory
Here's some further detail from the World Health Organization's virtual conference as it outlines a plan to accelerate work to fight Covid-19. All new vaccines, diagnostics and treatments against coronavirus must be made equally available to everyone worldwide, WHO says. The call comes as it launches a "landmark collaboration" to speed the development of effective drugs, tests and vaccines to prevent and treat COVID-19, with WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom warning the disease is a "common threat which we can only defeat with a common approach". He said: Experience has told us that even when tools are available they have not been equally available to all. We cannot allow that to happen."
More from France where it has been announced that millions of washable face masks will be provided to the public from next month. The government move is the latest development in a row over its apparent flip-flopping over the value of masks in protecting people from Covid-19 infection. More than 10 million textile masks were produced by domestic and international plants last week and output should reach 25 million by the end of April, Junior Finance Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher told financial daily Les Echos. From May 4 the masks will be sold to the public, likely via pharmacies, supermarkets and online. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus detected on particles of air pollution Posted: 24 Apr 2020 06:29 AM PDT Exclusive: Scientists examine whether this route enables infections at longer distances Coronavirus has been detected on particles of air pollution by scientists investigating whether this could enable it to be carried over longer distances and increase the number of people infected. The work is preliminary and it is not yet known if the virus remains viable on pollution particles and in sufficient quantity to cause disease. Continue reading... |
| Revealed: 'former Vodafone boss' in 5G conspiracy video is UK pastor Posted: 24 Apr 2020 07:00 AM PDT Jonathon James is previously unidentified individual who reached millions with false claims about Covid-19 A recording spread around the world at the end of March, purportedly featuring a former Vodafone executive claiming to let the public in on a secret that the coronavirus pandemic is cover for a global plot to install 5G mobile phone masts, track the world's population through vaccines, and then destroy human society as we know it. In reality, the Guardian can reveal, the voice on the tape making the baseless claims is actually an evangelical pastor from Luton who recently tried to convince Zimbabweans to use cryptocurrency in their economy. Continue reading... |
| Nursery, but not as they knew it ... Norway adjusts to life after lockdown Posted: 24 Apr 2020 05:13 AM PDT As the country follows Denmark in easing Covid-19 restrictions, pre-school has become very different for its younger citizens It was school, but not quite as they knew it. Outside the Hullebergmyra nursery in Ullern, west of Oslo, William Bugge was dropping off his children Louise, three, and Jonas, five, after six weeks of quarantine. Yellow smileys painted on the tarmac reminded everyone to keep a2 metres apart. Louise and Jonas were happy to be back, their father even more so: the family went into lockdown barely a day after the parents' wedding. Continue reading... |
| China to prosecute first foreign national over Hong Kong protests Posted: 24 Apr 2020 01:24 AM PDT Belizean national Lee Henley Hu Xiang accused of 'colluding with foreign anti-China forces' China is prosecuting its first foreign national for involvement in the Hong Kong protests, which racked the city for much of last year. State media said on Friday that Guangzhou city's national security bureau had finished investigations into Lee Henley Hu Xiang, a Belizean national and Taiwan resident, and his case had been transferred to the Guangzhou people's procuratorate for prosecution. Continue reading... |
| Joe Biden warns that Donald Trump may try to delay November election Posted: 24 Apr 2020 06:15 AM PDT
Former vice-president Joe Biden said he is concerned Donald Trump will try to delay the November presidential election, during remarks at an online fundraiser. "Mark my words, I think he is going to try to kick back the election somehow, come up with some rationale why it can't be held," Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, said on Thursday night. Continue reading... |
| German business morale hits record low; UK retail sales tumble - business live Posted: 24 Apr 2020 06:58 AM PDT Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as the Covid-19 lockdown hits spending in UK shops and confidence among German firms
Alarmingly, the slump in US durable goods orders last month is worse than during the 2008-09 crisis. Orders for durable goods sank 14.4% in March as the coronavirus swept the country. The steep drop was the second biggest since the government began keeping track in the early 1990s. Orders never even fell that much during the 2007-2009 Great Recession. https://t.co/S4dYeeV3wU pic.twitter.com/iQSwiU3wVc
Back in the UK, the competition watchdog has warned it will set out measures to tackle concerns about refunds and cancellations in the travel industry after a surge in complaints. The Competition and Markets Authority said four in five complaints to its coronavirus taskforce related to refunds and cancellations. Related: All big UK airlines and travel firms denying refunds, Which? finds Continue reading... |
| Mail publisher asks court to strike out Meghan's 'dishonesty' claims Posted: 24 Apr 2020 06:38 AM PDT Duchess sues publisher of British newspapers over use of letter to father Thomas Markle Claims by the Duchess of Sussex that a newspaper had "harassed, humiliated, manipulated and exploited" her estranged father to "dig or stir up" a dispute between the pair were "remarkable", given that she had not contacted him to ask if he agreed, the high court has heard. Meghan is suing Associated Newspapers for misuse of private information, breach of data protection, and copyright infringement after the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online published the contents of a handwritten "private and confidential" letter sent to Thomas Markle, 75, in August 2018. Continue reading... |
| UK government told not to use Zoom because of China fears Posted: 24 Apr 2020 06:07 AM PDT Security services said last week that videoconferencing tool was vulnerable to surveillance Government and parliament were told by the intelligence agencies last week not to use the videoconferencing service Zoom for confidential business, due to fears it could be vulnerable to Chinese surveillance. The quiet warnings to limit the technology came after the cabinet had used Zoom to hold a well-publicised meeting at the end of March, a decision that was defended at the time as necessary in "unprecedented circumstances". Continue reading... |
| Kenyan police officer charged with murder of former Leeds student Posted: 24 Apr 2020 05:35 AM PDT Emmanuel Ambunya Oyombe pleads not guilty over fatal shooting of Carliton Maina in Nairobi in December 2018 A Kenyan police officer has appeared before a Nairobi court charged with the murder of 23-year-old Carliton Maina, a former Leeds University student, who was shot dead in December 2018. The charging of police constable Emmanuel Ambunya Oyombe marks a significant milestone in the Kenyan government's commitment to tackling its issue with questionable police shootings, and to speeding up its justice process in bringing those accused to trial. Continue reading... |
| Burberry directors take 20% pay cut and 'won't use furlough scheme' Posted: 24 Apr 2020 05:13 AM PDT Money will be donated to help struggling communities during coronavirus Burberry has announced a temporary 20% cut to directors' pay and said it will not rely on the government's coronavirus job retention scheme for employees unable to work during the Covid-19 crisis. Epidemics of infectious diseases behave in different ways but the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people is regarded as a key example of a pandemic that occurred in multiple waves, with the latter more severe than the first. It has been replicated – albeit more mildly – in subsequent flu pandemics. Continue reading... |
| 'He's Mr Scrooge': Mexican president unveils severe cuts amid coronavirus Posted: 24 Apr 2020 04:30 AM PDT Andrés Manuel López Obrador compared to Reagan and Thatcher after introducing new severe austerity measures He identifies as a leftist and rails constantly against neoliberalism. But Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has introduced austerity measures so severe that his critics have compared him to Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. This week, the president, popularly known as Amlo, unveiled more cuts in response to the Covid-19 crisis, including the abolition of 10 government departments, a hiring freeze and a 25% cut in government salaries. Continue reading... |
| Taylor Swift disowns new live album, calling it 'shameless greed' Posted: 24 Apr 2020 02:45 AM PDT Singer complains of 'tasteless' release amid coronavirus crisis by former label Big Machine, owned by frequent adversary Scooter Braun Taylor Swift has disowned a new live album released under her name, calling it tasteless and "shameless greed" amid the coronavirus outbreak. The album, Live from Clear Channel Stripped 2008, was recorded when Swift was 18, around the release of her Grammy-winning second album, Fearless. The live album has been released by Big Machine, Swift's former label that was bought by music manager Scooter Braun from its founder, Scott Borchetta. Swift has frequently criticised Braun and Borchetta – leading Braun to allege death threats from fans to his family – and is planning to rerecord and rerelease her six albums put out by Big Machine to regain some control over her back catalogue. Continue reading... |
| The plight of the cuckoo: a 4,000-mile flight followed by golf Posted: 24 Apr 2020 06:26 AM PDT Nine-year tagging study sheds light upon migratory cycle of the cuckoo to help understand species' alarming decline When you've just braved sandstorms, thunderstorms and drought during a 4,000-mile solo flight in search of romance, what is your first priority? For Carlton II the cuckoo, it appears to be a relaxing round of golf. The satellite-tagged bird became the first of a small flock of tracked cuckoos to return to his breeding grounds in record time, dashing from the Ivory Coast to southern England in seven days. Continue reading... |
| Why Willem Dafoe, Iggy Pop and more are reading The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to us Posted: 24 Apr 2020 04:00 AM PDT Slavery, ecocide, plague ... the warnings of Coleridge's poem resound down the ages. Now 40 actors, musicians and authors are performing in a daily mass-reading Roaring out of the radical 1790s, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a founding fable for our time. A fable must by definition revolve around an animal, and in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's nightmare the slain albatross hangs around the fated sailor's neck like a broken cross, an emblem of his sin against nature. It is all too relevant today, as a statement of isolation and despair: "Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!" Yet in that forlorn expression is great power; the power of art to change us. When published in 1798, Coleridge's poem was seen as the work of "a mad German poet". His friend Charles Lamb called him "a cracked archangel", while his fellow drug addict Thomas De Quincey would defend his poetic experimentalism. "Where is the man who shall be equal to these things?" he said. "Is, indeed, Leviathan so tamed? In that case, the quarantine of the opium-eater might be finished." |
| Makeshift oil refineries a necessary evil for locals in north-west Syria Posted: 24 Apr 2020 12:00 AM PDT Toxic fumes and repiratory disease among hazards facing people reliant on informal processing plants for work and fuel, study finds Black pools, long trenches and charred earth have become common sights in the fields of north-west Syria, signs of an informal oil economy that has developed during the war. Despite damaging both the environment and health, up to 5,000 backyard oil refineries, crucial to the livelihoods of besieged Syrians, have cropped up in recent years, identified through satellite imagery in a report by open source investigators Bellingcat. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 24 Apr 2020 06:32 AM PDT We are documenting the lives of every US medical worker who dies helping patients during the pandemic. These are some of the first tragic cases America's healthcare workers are dying. In some states, medical staff account for as many as 20% of known coronavirus cases. From doctors to hospital cleaners and from nursing home aides to paramedics, those most at risk have already helped save thousands of lives. Continue reading... |
| Ocean plastic was choking Chile’s shores. Now it’s in Patagonia’s hats Posted: 24 Apr 2020 06:00 AM PDT A startup is recycling tonnes of discarded fishing nets throughout Chile. Is this a template for tackling the global plastic waste problem? In Tumbes, a village in southern Chile, discarded plastic fishing nets are crammed into gaps between parked cars and market stalls, evidence of a global waste problem that the town is working to resolve. Until recently, most discarded fishing nets in this coastal fishing village were dumped straight into the sea – contributing to the massive plastic pollution crisis that's choking the planet's oceans. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 24 Apr 2020 04:05 AM PDT Brendan Murphy says he is 'pretty confident' most will be negative but it is necessary to monitor community transmission. This blog is now closed
We're closing our live coronavirus coverage for the day. Thanks from me, Graham Readfearn, and from my colleagues Josh Taylor and Amy Remeikis. You can still follow events elsewhere on the Guardian's global live blog. We'll be back tomorrow with more live coverage.
Jimmy Barnes took a night off last night, but he's back with more music from his lounge room. It's a cover of the 1963 Burt Bacharach and Hal David song (They Long to Be) Close to You, most famously recorded by the Carpenters in 1970. Here's a curve ball for you tonight. I put Jane right off but we're getting it out there warts and all. This is one for Leith. Tune in to @channel9 for #MusicfromtheHomeFront tomorrow. Thanks to our entertainment community for pulling together in the Anzac spirit. Full vid on FB pic.twitter.com/PB6C6eFtvG Continue reading... |
| Soap and solace scarce as Sri Lanka's tea pickers toil on amid lockdown Posted: 23 Apr 2020 11:00 PM PDT Workers in a sector with a history of exploitation face hazards including a lack of masks and overcrowded accommodation In Sri Lanka, police have been enforcing tough lockdown measures and a strict curfew since March. The country's inspector general has instructed police to take action against social media users who criticise the government or spread "malicious" pandemic information. An exception has been made, however, for the country's tea pickers. A caveat on the country's lockdown order, issued on 20 March, read: "Paddy farming and plantation, including work on tea small holdings and fishing activities, are permitted in any district." Continue reading... |
| Pandemic potentially a 'death sentence' for many prison inmates, experts warn Posted: 23 Apr 2020 08:39 AM PDT Lack of space and funding combined with often limited access to medical support increases vulnerability of prisoners, says study Chronic overcrowding and underfunding have left prisons around the world vulnerable to being ravaged by coronavirus, criminal justice experts have warned. The challenges of a record global prison population of 11 million have been brought to light in a report published by Penal Reform International (PRI) which found that 102 countries have prison occupancy levels of more than 110%. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Pandemic could 'turn back the clock' 20 years on malaria deaths, warns WHO Posted: 23 Apr 2020 06:03 AM PDT Deaths in sub-Saharan African countries could double to more than 700,000 this year if Covid-19 crisis disrupts programmes Deaths from malaria could double across sub-Saharan Africa this year if work to prevent the disease is disrupted by Covid-19, the World Health Organization has warned. The UN's global health agency said that if countries failed to maintain delivery of insecticide-treated nets and access to antimalarial medicines, up to 769,000 people could die of malaria this year. That figure, which would be more than double the number of deaths in 2018, would mark a return to mortality levels last seen 20 years ago. Continue reading... |
| What will coronavirus mean for the British economy? Posted: 23 Apr 2020 11:00 PM PDT As the UK faces what may be its worst ever recession, we begin a monthly series exploring the financial shock to business and living standards One month after a national lockdown was declared in an attempt to limit the spread of Covid-19, it is clear that Britain is heading for the deepest recession in living memory. Boris Johnson's government launched unprecedented restrictions on 23 March, telling the British public that they must stay at home and bringing life as the nation knew it to an abrupt halt. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus delivers a 'moment of truth' on the meaning of the EU Posted: 23 Apr 2020 08:04 AM PDT The issue of recovery funds shapes up as an acid test of commitment to the union The EU's anxious debate over the bloc's economic response to the coronavirus pandemic is at heart about the nature and competing visions of the union. It is a perennial question found lurking in the background of all EU negotiations over long-term budgets, not least the most recent inconclusive and toxic talks in which north was pitted against south. Continue reading... |
| Why the UK is finding it so hard to reach 100,000 Covid-19 tests a day Posted: 23 Apr 2020 08:00 AM PDT A slow start, a top-down approach and long-term cuts to local services meant target was always going to be ambitious On 2 April, the day he emerged from quarantine after testing positive for Covid-19, Matt Hancock stood at the Downing Street podium for the daily coronavirus press conference and made an announcement that was greeted in some quarters by a sharp intake of breath. "I'm now setting the goal of 100,000 tests per day by the end of this month. That is the goal and I'm determined we'll get there," said the health secretary, who had tested positive around a week earlier. Continue reading... |
| Italy uses snow cannon to disinfect alpine villages – video Posted: 24 Apr 2020 05:09 AM PDT Snow cannon spraying disinfectant are being deployed in villages around the ski slopes of the Italian Alps by sanitation workers, as a novel solution to fight the spread of coronavirus. In Val Gardena, firefighters used their hoses to fill a giant tank with diluted hydrogen peroxide. As the number of new coronavirus infections has begun to decline in Italy, the country is preparing for the second phase of the lockdown, when restrictive measures will be eased and people will, in stages, begin to return to normal activities. Italy has the highest death toll in Europe from coronavirus, with almost 190,000 people infected and more than 25,000 fatalities. Continue reading... |
| Trump floats dangerous coronavirus treatment ideas as Dr Birx looks on – video Posted: 24 Apr 2020 03:14 AM PDT Donald Trump prompted a backlash from medical experts after floating the idea that they could look into heat, light and injections of disinfectants as a cure for Covid-19. His public health advisers immediately played down the idea, and medics warn that trying such ideas could be fatal. Coronavirus response coordinator Dr Deborah Birx appeared caught off guard when Trump asked her directly if heat and light would cure the deadly disease. 'Not as a treatment,' Birx replied
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| ‘We’re also human beings': Uber drivers pay tribute to colleagues lost to Covid-19 – video Posted: 24 Apr 2020 01:33 AM PDT Three Uber drivers who believe they caught coronavirus from passengers before the UK lockdown started share their experiences of the illness, pay tribute to drivers who have died, and call for better safety standards for drivers in London Continue reading... |
| 'Give them PPE!': the UK steps out for fifth weekly clap for key workers – video report Posted: 23 Apr 2020 04:07 PM PDT For the fifth week running, people across the UK came to their doorsteps, balconies, windows and gardens to clap for frontline workers Continue reading... |
| 'Just dumb': Cuomo slams Mitch McConnell over 'reckless' state bankruptcy proposal – video Posted: 23 Apr 2020 10:59 AM PDT The New York governor on Thursday fiercely criticised Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell for suggesting states should declare bankruptcy instead of receiving more federal aid. Andrew Cuomo described McConnell's suggestion as 'one of the really dumb ideas of all time' and said the warning against 'bailouts' for Democrat states was 'irresponsible and reckless' Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus face masks around the world – in pictures Posted: 23 Apr 2020 06:29 AM PDT From cut-up T-shirts to bandanas, donning some kind of face covering is becoming the new norm Continue reading... |
| Scotland publishes framework for coping with 'new normal' of Covid-19 – video Posted: 23 Apr 2020 06:08 AM PDT Scotland must adjust to the 'new normal' of living with Covid-19, which may include moving in and out of strict lockdowns at short notice, according to a document published on Thursday by the Scottish government, which sets out its framework for progressing beyond the current lockdown restrictions Continue reading... |
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