New York officials have begged for health care reinforcements, saying up to a million more workers are needed to fight coronavirus, while the World Health Organisation warned that the pandemic was far from over in Asia.
The mounting death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in the United States had it poised to overtake China's total of 3,300 deaths.
Western liberals are denouncing Hungary's parliament for giving Prime Minister Viktor Orban dictatorial powers to deal with Covid-19, even as they advocate similar measures at home, due to a peculiar understanding of democracy. Even as it acknowledged that dealing with the coronavirus pandemic “requires harsh measures which curtail individual freedoms,” the Guardian was shocked –...
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