Covid pandemic articles
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Covid pandemic made poorest countries even worse off, World Bank warns
Poverty reduction drive all but halted across many nations as Bank calls for more money to tackle a ‘great reversal’Larry Elliott: At last G20 is showing how to fund an assault on povertyThe devastating impact of the pandemic on the world’s poorest countries has brought poverty reduction to a halt and led to a widening income gap with nations in the rich west, the World Bank has warned.In a report released to coincide with its half-yearly meeting, the Washington-based organisation said half of...
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Derry & Strabane hybrid Council meetings started during Covid pandemic to resume this summer
It follows the expiration last month of the 2020 Coronavirus Act, which allowed for Councillors to attend meetings remotely. At a Governance and Strategic Planning Committee meeting on Tuesday, April 9, Council Officers said they had since received correspondence of a preliminary draft of regulations from the Department for Communities. An officer said the draft regulations “essentially replicate the powers that existed under the previous Coronavirus Legislation, subject to an obligation to...
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Morrison’s Covid measures a ‘grotesque overreaction’ to a ‘relatively mild pandemic’, Tony Abbott says
Former PM tells podcast he got vaccinated so as not to give anyone ‘an excuse for keeping us locked up any longer than was absolutely necessary’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe former prime minister Tony Abbott has described the Morrison government’s Covid response as a “grotesque overreaction” to a “relatively mild pandemic”, adding he reluctantly got vaccinated because he “didn’t want anyone to...