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Ireland to quadruple WHO contribution after Trump halts funding
WHO chief thanks Ireland for increasing funding to aid global Covid-19 response
Border Force officers seen fitting face masks to migrants at Dover
The Border Force cutter HMC Vigilant has been active in the English Channel.
Four in 10 hit financially by coronavirus ‘have lost half their income or more’
Some 37% of people across Britain whose incomes had been affected said it had been reduced by half or more, Kantar found.
Intensive care nurse warns in poem of ‘apocalyptic situation’
Tori Willis recorded the spoken word poem out of ‘frustration’ over people not obeying lockdown rules.
Anti-lockdown protests on the rise in the US
The growing wave of dissent comes despite America’s spiralling death toll from Covid-19.
Official NHS staff death toll rises to 27 – including pregnant nurse
Announcements from NHS trusts and tributes from loved ones indicate the true number of staff lost is higher.
Coronavirus UK – Lockdown extended for at least three more weeks
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, deputising for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said lockdown measures must continue.
Ex-detainees write to Priti Patel pleading Covid-19 makes immigration detention inhuman
Freed Voices is made up of people who have experienced immigration detention in the UK, and are now committed to speaking out. Between us, we have lost over 20 years of our lives to detention, and we have written this urgent letter to the Home Secretary.
Social care sector ‘remains at unnecessary risk despite Government plan’
There remains a ‘critical lack’ of testing and protective gear, unions and social care bosses say.