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Governments have the right to restrict protests on public health grounds, within reason, the UN Human Rights Committee has said, as demonstrations clash with coronavirus outbreaks around the world.
The committee stepped in to formulate its legal interpretation having seen
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Everyone knew that reopening Greece to tourist markets would be a calculated risk, fraught with the danger of potentially importing coronavirus cases with the need to keep an economy overly dependent on tourism afloat.
As holidaymakers fly into the
The Spanish government has urged “respect” for the coronavirus as the country moves to contain 224 active outbreaks, most of them in the northeastern regions of Catalonia and Aragón.
Speaking in parliament on Wednesday, the health minister, Salvador
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Victoria is in the midst of grappling with a surge in coronavirus infections that has now spread into NSW, forming a cluster of cases linked to one pub in Sydney. Melbourne bureau chief Melissa Davey and infectious diseases expert Professor …
‘The priority now must be to get that R number back below 1,’ he said, adding that by doing so the country will have the best chance possible to fully reopen schools in late August.
To achieve the target, the
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is enforcing partial coronavirus restrictions in the capital, Manila, for another two weeks, and warned that stricter curbs would be reinstated if the rise in new cases and deaths does not slow down, Reuters reports.
The
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The place that seemed like the last in the world capable of containing the virus – Dharavi slum in Mumbai – has been hailed as a success story by the WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, writes Amrit Dhillon in