Social media sites are under pressure to combat misinformation that has spread on their platforms about the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus.
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The United Kingdom has one of the world's highest official COVID-19 death tolls and, after criticism that he was slow to impose a lockdown, British PM Boris Johnson is wary of triggering a second wave of infection.
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There'll be plenty of time for post-pandemic reckoning and for dissecting mistakes. But we might be able to start asking some bigger questions about the shape of our democracy and the transparency and accountability which ought to be at its heart, writes Judith Februaryjud
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COVID-19 is feminine – to be used with the article 'la' not 'le' – according to the official guardian of the French language, which has urged an end to the widespread practice in France of referring to it as masculine.
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Jerry Stiller played George Costanza's short-tempered father Frank on the smash TV show 'Seinfeld', for which he won the Funniest Male Guest Appearance in a TV Series at the American Comedy Awards in 1989.
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The application system for the grant opened as of Monday as part of government's COVID-19 relief programme for the unemployed.
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It has emerged that some employers who applied for the special temporary benefit to cover workers' salaries in light of disruptions to workflows have not distributed the funds as required.
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The Western Cape and Eastern Cape combined comprised 84% of the total new cases recorded on Sunday.
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Under lockdown level 4 regulations, restaurant kitchens can operate but cannot serve sit-down or take-away meals.
Another encouraging indicator has been a prolonged decline in the number of daily deaths from coronavirus infections, which fell to 70 on Sunday, bringing the total to 26,380.
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