We erred in presenting data related to the spread in schools of the India Covid-19 variant: 164 cases of the new variant out of 2,111 is 7.8%, not 13%, as we said; and a rise from 2,111 cases to 3,424 since 12 May is an increase of 62%, not 160% (No 10 blocked data on spread of India variant in UK schools, suggests report, 23 May, page 10, later editions).
Bob Dylan grew up in Hibbing, Minnesota, but he was not born there, as an article said. He was born in Duluth, about 70 miles away (A little Minnesota town celebrates its famous son at 80, 23 May, page 26). Also, the place where he was reported to the police by a concerned resident in 2009 was Long Branch, New Jersey, not “Long Beach”.
The guitarist Mdou Moctar is from Niger and is therefore Nigerien, not Nigerian, as we said in a review of his latest album, Afrique Victime (23 May, New Review, page 33).
The Russell-Cotes gallery is in Bournemouth, not Eastbourne, as an article on the reopening of museums and galleries said (Now’s the best time to enjoy Britain’s treasures (there are no tourists), 16 May, page 4).
Other recently amended articles include:
GPs stricken by long Covid ‘shocked and betrayed’ at being forced from jobs
Spy who got the cold shoulder: how the west abandoned its star defector
Thousands of work-related Covid deaths going unreported, says TUC
Yes but no but yes: flight bookings soar despite baffling travel rules
Dorfromantik review – the simple pleasures of world-building
Casa Madeira, London: ‘I love the Portuguese repertoire’ – restaurant review
Distraught choirs forced back to Zoom after late Covid rule change in England
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