An error during editing meant that a 6 September news article wrongly included Leeds as one of the places where new lockdown restrictions had been imposed. In addition, the featured weekly coronavirus infection rates for two London boroughs – Bromley, and Kensington and Chelsea – are not thought to have included a full week’s data (“As other cities head back into lockdown, why isn’t it happening in the UK capital?”, page 10).
The priest commemorated by a walk in Genoa was Don Nicola Ricchini, not Don Andrea Ricchini. He was formerly the priest of Aggio, not San Martino; and he was sent to Flossenbürg concentration camp rather than Auschwitz (“How a poet’s son is reclaiming Genoa from its tainted elite”, 13 September, page 48).
Neuroscientist Lori Marino is president of the Whale Sanctuary Project, and not part of the neuroscience and behavioural biology programme at Emory University in Atlanta, as an article said (“The tale of the killer whales”, 13 September, Magazine, page 18).
The $16.3bn fall in Elon Musk’s net worth that happened in a stock market plunge on 8 September was equivalent to £12.7bn, not £12.7m, as we said in a business article (“Twenty years after the dotcom crash, is tech’s bubble about to burst again?”, 13 September, page 62).
An article (“How to make your own ‘luck’ – and turn a mistake into the best thing that ever happened”, 13 September, Magazine, page 36) located in Finland the volcano that erupted in 2010 causing an ash cloud that grounded thousands of flights; it was in Iceland.
Other recently amended articles include:
Radio reporters to be axed by BBC and told to reapply for new roles
Frances McDormand feature Nomadland wins the Golden Lion at Venice film festival
Unstaffed, digital supermarkets transform rural Sweden
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