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The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

Treasurer delivers budget speech – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Boris Johnson must resign if fined for breaching lockdown, says Labour

Angela Rayner increases pressure on PM with Met expected to issue first fines imminently

The Guardian - UK

Partygate: Boris Johnson 'not expected' to be among first 15 fined by Met Police

The Metropolitan Police are expected to hand out Partygate fines to between 15 and 20 officials for breach of Covid rules

Daily Mirror

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Is it time to worry about Covid in Ireland again? Government makes its position on restrictions clear as cases surge

Almost 12,000 new cases were reported in the country on Monday, with officials recording 5,263 positive PCR tests and 6,466 positive antigen tests

Irish Mirror

Shanghai lockdown tests 'zero-COVID' limits, shakes markets

A two-phase lockdown on Shanghai's 26 million people is testing the limits of China's hardline “zero-COVID" strategy whose effects are being felt beyond the country's borders

The Independent UK

Paul Collingwood throws hat into the ring for permanent England head coach job

Paul Collingwood took on the role as interim head coach as England followed their Ashes humiliation by being beaten 1-0 in their three match Test series in the West Indies

Daily Mirror

How do you stop fake news about Covid? Not by silencing scientists who ask difficult questions

Whatever Twitter was doing when it banned the Oxford epidemiologist Carl Heneghan, it wasn’t protecting the world from disinformation, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

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Future of Covid memorial wall still uncertain one year after the first heart

What began with a team of volunteers in London has become a symbol of the pandemic – but remains at risk of erasure

The Guardian - UK

Prince Philip's poignant last requests will finally be honoured at memorial service

Some of Prince Philip's wishes for his funeral service that could not be fulfilled due to Covid-19 restrictions at the time of his final farewell will finally be granted at his memorial service later today

Daily Mirror

Covid-19 Ireland: Stephen Donnelly warns restrictions needed to control new variant surge

The Emergency Department Taskforce is to request that public health measures are reconsidered by the Government

Dublin Live

Andy Robertson targeting Kenny Dalglish milestone as Scotland skipper wants Gareth Bale revenge

Robertson will return from Covid isolation as Scotland face Austria in Vienna tonight.

Daily Record

Matthew Guy criticises Victoria’s Covid close contact rules after going into isolation

Opposition leader spending week in isolation with his family after his son tests positive

The Guardian - AU

Mount Gambier Hospital braces for spike in COVID-19 patients as community cases surge

South Australia's largest regional public health facility is bracing for a predicted influx of COVID-19 patients amid outbreaks in the state's south east.

ABC News

Shanghai tightens COVID lockdown on second day of curbs

China's most populous city tightened the first phase of a two-stage COVID-19 lockdown on Tuesday, asking some residents to stay indoors unless they are getting tested as the number of new daily cases exceeded 4,400.

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The Guardian - AU

Victoria daily news update: hospitality training to fill shortages, Matthew Guy isolates and Covid cases rise

Both Daniel Andrews and the opposition leader are now in isolation as Covid cases rise across the state

The Times of India

Sunday effect: 3 Covid positive out of 1321 tests

NAGPUR: Only 3 new Covid patients were detected in Vidarbha in the last 24 hours, owing to lesser testing on account of Sunday being a holiday on March 27.

The Times of India

Dealt a bad hand by fate, 19-year-old DU student fears losing a foot to apathy

NEW DELHI: It has been a series of unfortunate events for 19-year-old Sana Cheryl Felix. She lost her father to cancer in April 2020 and her mother to Covid in May last year and is now apprehensive about losing the toes on her left foot.

The Times of India

Ahmedabad: Covid claims husband, woman appears in exam to get his job

AHMEDABAD: Harsha Solanki revises her lessons as she goes about her household chores and looks after her two children, aged 12 and 6. The 34-year-old is studying for her Class 10 exam so that she can secure a job with the postal department on compassionate ground in place of her…

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ABC News

Restrictions will ease on Thursday, but it is still unknown if WA COVID-19 cases have peaked

The West Australian government assures the decision to wind back level two restrictions is informed by the Chief Health Officer, despite his now-published health advice appearing to suggest restrictions should be downgraded later.

The Times of India

West Bengal: Life returns to canteens, common rooms as campuses ease Covid curbs

KOLKATA: Colleges and universities have started easing some restrictions on campus that were put in place in compliance of Covid safety guidelines by the state government when the education sector reopened in February.

Daily Mirror

Tottenham star Christian Romero left red-faced after embarrassing Argentina u-turn

Tottenham's Cristian Romero has travelled to South America and back without kicking a ball in anger after FIFA upheld the Argentine defender's two-match suspension

The Independent UK

Metropolitan Police set to issue first fines over No 10 lockdown parties

Up to 20 fines expected in first set of punishments over Covid rule-breaking in government

WEKU

5,530 new coronavirus cases tallied in Kentucky's weekly report

The Independent UK

Downing Street parties timeline as fines expected to be issued soon

More than 100 questionnaires have been sent out to people at the reported gatherings, Scotland Yard said.

Manchester Evening News

Coronavirus cases continue to rise sharply in all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester

The number of people requiring hospital treatment for Covid-19 is also rising in the region

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