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This article is more than 2 years oldThis article is more than 2 years oldJohns Hopkins says 450,435 have died; WHO condemns Napoli football fans’ celebrations as ‘reckless’; Beijing expert says new outbreak under control. This blog is now closedWe’ve launched a new blog at the link below – head there for the latest:Dan Tehan, Australia’s minister for education, has also spoken about the government wanting to shake up the university sector including doubling the cost of an arts degree.He told: ABC News Breakfast: What we want to do is first make sure that we’ve got additional places in the system because we know as a result of the coronavirus pandemic we’re going to see more demand for places in the higher education system and also we want to incentivise students to undertake courses that will give them the skills to take the jobs of the future.“We need young Australians to help us grow our economy through the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic and what this is all about is incentivising people to look at teaching, to look at nursing, to look at allied health, to look at engineering and to look at IT because we know that the jobs of the future will be in those areas.”A poll of Black immigrant domestic workers in New York, Miami-Dade and Massachusetts found that 70% had lost their jobs amid the coronavirus pandemic.The conducted by The Institute for Policy Studies and the National Domestic Workers Alliance includes responses from 800 workers.Half of those surveyed said they were afraid of seeking assistance from the federal or local government due to their immigration status.Just as the pandemic hit the US, the Trump administration’s rule, which allows the government to deny green cards and visas to immigrants who rely on public benefits, took effect.Dan Tehan, Australia’s minister for education, has been asked about the future of the wage subsidy JobKeeper scheme while speaking to the ABC. So what the Government is doing at the moment is having a review of JobKeeper. It’s methodical. We are getting all the data that we need to make the key decisions going forward, which will strengthen our economy as we come out of the coronavirus pandemic.“Now we said that we would review JobKeeper in June and that’s been undertaken.“I know that the Treasury are giving a lot of thought to the recommendations that will go into that review and then the Government will consider it in July. So that will be done in a very considered, method call way and in a way that we think will ensure that we continue to grow our economy and grow jobs out of this coronavirus pandemic.The UK will deploy royal influence in a bid to garner international support for its proposals to support survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in the wake of the global coronavirus outbreak.The Countess of Wessex, alongside human rights minister Lord Ahmad, will present the draft Murad Code at a virtual United Nations event on Friday.Sophie’s involvement is part of her work with the Foreign Office on tackling war-related sexual violence, something she has undertaken since March 2019.The Murad Code, created alongside Nobel Laureate Nadia Murad, is designed to strengthen justice for survivors around the world and recognise the difficulties in accessing support during the Covid-19 crisis.Lord Ahmad, the UK prime minister’s special representative on preventing sexual violence in conflict, will urge UN members to collaborate on the Murad Code in a bid to build international consensus in eradicating rape and other forms of sexual violence as weapons of war.He will also push for countries to do more to listen to survivors on what support should be put in place to aid recoveryLord Ahmad is expected to say at the UN meeting: “We are determined to tackle these abhorrent crimes.“Covid-19 is an unprecedented threat to how we respond to these crimes. The impacts of this pandemic are stark.“Crucial medical and psychological services are at risk, as governments divert resources towards their response.“Restrictions on movement limit physical routes for survivors to report crimes, or to move to safety.“And stay-at-home measures mean those in abusive situations are even more vulnerable to violence.”The US has questioned China’s credibility on reporting fresh coronavirus cases in Beijing and called for neutral observers to assess the extent of the outbreak.China has locked down the capital as it seeks to prevent a second wave of Covid-19, reporting 158 cases since a fresh cluster was detected last week.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, an outspoken critic of China, urged greater transparency during talks Wednesday in Hawaii with senior Chinese official Yang Jiechi. “I would hope that their numbers and their reporting are more accurate than what we saw in the case of Wuhan and other places in the PRC, but that remains to be seen,” said David Stilwell, the top US diplomat for East Asia who accompanied Pompeo.“As far as numbers, it would be good to have folks on the ground to get confirmation” in Beijing, he told reporters.Stilwell pointed to reports in scientific journals that gave higher estimates for Covid-19 cases in Wuhan, the metropolis where the global pandemic was first detected late last year.“So once your credibility is lost, you will have to find a way to re-establish that,” Stilwell said.“I think the only way to do that is by bringing in neutral observers to help understand exactly what happened there.”China has accused President Donald Trump’s administration of politicising the pandemic to deflect from its own handling of the virus in the US, which has suffered by far the highest death toll of any country.Piloted in May, ditched in June: here is a deeper look at the failure of the Covid-19 contact-tracing app being developed in England.Brazil has registered 978,142 cases of coronavirus, up from 955,377 yesterday.The death toll has increased to 47,748, compared to 46,510 yesterday, according to the country’s health ministry.Friday’s front page of the UK edition of The Guardian.The Times’ front page for Friday.

This article is more than 2 years oldThis article is more than 2 years oldJohns Hopkins says 450,435 have died; WHO condemns Napoli football fans’ celebrations as ‘reckless’; Beijing expert says new outbreak under control. This blog is now closedWe’ve launched a new blog at the link below – head there for the latest:Dan Tehan, Australia’s minister for education, has also spoken about the government wanting to shake up the university sector including doubling the cost of an arts degree.He told: ABC News Breakfast: What we want to do is first make sure that we’ve got additional places in the...

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