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  • Sunday, 29 March, 2020
    Coronavirus latest: Global toll rises as nations count economic and social cost
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    AnalysisTechnology
    The ventilator challenge will test ingenuity to the limit

    Manufacturers face technical, logistical and regulatory hurdles as they step outside their comfort zone

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  • Sunday, 29 March, 2020
    Analysis
    Grieving alone — coronavirus upends funeral rites

    All over Europe, authorities issue orders to cancel, shorten or curtail ceremonies

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  • Sunday, 29 March, 2020
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    China and the US must fight Covid-19 together

    The gains from co-operation far outweigh the modest cost of the steps they could take

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    No room for bullshit in the time of coronavirus

    Speaking clearly and honestly in a crisis cuts through the guff

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    Trump decides against coronavirus quarantine of states

    President’s about-face comes as number of US fatalities rises above 2,000

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    Britain’s ‘terrified’ frontline doctors braced for coronavirus surge

    UK predicts big increase in cases in next two weeks that will test NHS to its limits

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    Chicken run prompts ‘chaos’ in poultry industry

    Demand rises by over a fifth as Britons stock up on cheaper food during pandemic crisis

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    Coronavirus tracked: the latest figures as the pandemic spreads

    The countries affected, the number of deaths and the economic impact

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    Health official says UK can keep coronavirus deaths below 20,000

    Rate of fatalities suggests Britain on similar trajectory to Italy and Spain, Europe’s worst-hit countries

  • Saturday, 28 March, 2020
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    How the coronavirus pandemic is disrupting the US Democratic primary calendar

    Delayed primaries make June 2 the second-biggest delegate day in the race to become the Democratic presidential nominee

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    UK to change insolvency rules to protect businesses

    Wrongful trading law to be suspended to protect directors who pay staff and suppliers

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    UK government must act to help start-ups

    We need a public-private fund to invest in promising but lossmaking businesses

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    Downing Street adjusts after Boris Johnson’s coronavirus diagnosis 

    Whitehall fears further infections could hamper efforts to tackle Covid-19

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    Overwhelmed with demand during the coronavirus outbreak, groups have disappointed customers

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    Annual shareholder meeting season upended by coronavirus outbreak

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    Japan risks second wave of coronavirus

    Shinzo Abe pledges economic package of ‘unprecedented scale’ as cases spike

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    State that outperformed the rest of the US on the back of the shale boom is heading for a crash

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    Robert Hockett: US must take stakes in firms it rescues

    American model should be the War Production Board and the New Deal

  • Saturday, 28 March, 2020
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    Fitch downgrades UK debt citing coronavirus impact

    Agency cuts rating to AA- and points to worsening fiscal outlook and Brexit uncertainty

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    As the contagion works its way round the world, so does the drop in emissions

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    Global petrol demand to plunge as US stops driving

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    Trump invokes federal law to compel GM to make ventilators

    Carmaker says it is working ‘around the clock’ in meeting ‘urgent need’ for coronavirus gear

  • Friday, 27 March, 2020
    Coronavirus: KPMG’s UK chair in hospital with Covid-19 - as it happened
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