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British government ends support for four new ventilator designs

Four teams who have been working on ventilators in response to the Government’s urgent call for more machines for the NHS have been told...

UK coronavirus death toll surpasses 26,000

More than 26,000 people with confirmed coronavirus have died in hospitals, care homes and elsewhere in the UK, new figures show. A total of 26,097...

Boeing to cut 10% of workforce after reporting large losses

Boeing is cutting about 10% of its workforce to deal with a downturn in business that started with the grounding of its best-selling jet...

Tony Robinson: Older people treated like ‘third-class citizens’ in coronavirus pandemic

Blackadder star Tony Robinson has complained that older people have been “incarcerated” and “forgotten” during the coronavirus pandemic. The actor and presenter, 73, said “the...

Global sales fall at Starbucks as Covid-19 forces store closures

Starbucks saw its global sales tumble in the first three months of 2020 as coronavirus-related shutdowns hampered its operations. The Seattle-based coffee giant said conditions...

Coronavirus cases pass million mark in US as states begin lifting restrictions

The number of coronavirus cases in the United States has passed a million, accounting for nearly a third of the total cases worldwide. The figures,...

Gordon Brown calls on US and China to end ‘vaccine nationalism’

Former British prime minister Gordon Brown has called on the US and China to “step up to the plate” and pledge to join a...

UN chief urges governments to use pandemic to ‘rebuild our world for the better’

UN chief Antonio Guterres has said the coronavirus pandemic has exposed how fragile societies are but that if governments work together on common challenges,...

Nando’s reopens six UK restaurants for delivery

Nando’s has said it is reopening six of its UK restaurants for delivery from today. The peri-peri chicken chain said it will reopen the kitchens...

Care home coronavirus death toll declines

Over the course of April, the number of care home residents dying from coronavirus has decreased. The Office of National Statistics released a publication...

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