Pandemic
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UK Parliament to hold virtual debates amid virus lockdown
Britain’s Parliament is going back to work, and the political authorities have a message for lawmakers: Stay away. U.K. legislators and most parliamentary staff ... -
North Korean defectors, experts question zero virus claim
As a doctor in North Korea during the SARS outbreak and flu pandemic, Choi Jung Hun didn’t have much more than a thermometer to ... -
Dentists, hair salons, beaches: Lockdowns ease but not in US
Tattoo parlors and hair salons in Denmark. Beaches in Australia. Bookstores in Germany. Nations around the world took advantage yesterday of their flattening coronavirus ... -
Singapore reports a record 1,426 new cases, total near 8,000
Singapore reported a record 1,426 new coronavirus cases on Monday, mostly among foreign workers, pushing its total number of confirmed infections to 7,984. The ... -
Analysis | Losing face: The rise of the mask, and what’s lost behind it
On Saturday afternoons, the Strip District neighborhood of Pittsburgh becomes a jam-packed hub of old-fashioned shopping. People stride along Penn Avenue, hopping from greengrocer ... -
Asia Today: Japan expands emergency; China denies allegation
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expanded a state of emergency to all of Japan from just Tokyo and other urban areas as the virus ... -
‘Call me Boris’: Nurse’s father glad UK leader got good care
The father of a Portuguese nurse who helped care for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson while he was in intensive care with COVID-19 says ... -
Asia Today: China didn’t warn public of likely pandemic for six key days
Beijing — In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city ...
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