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The world’s most breathtaking ports: The ultimate list of places with wonderful waterfronts

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The world’s most breathtaking ports: The ultimate list of places with wonderful waterfronts, from America to Australia via Italy and Norway This series of scintillating snaps will take you on a maritime journey around the globe   Some of the ports are framed by soaring skyscrapers, others by rolling snow-covered mountains Dubrovnik, Portloe in Cornwall, Marina … Read more

Britons back ‘air bridges’ and ‘travel bubbles’, with holiday searches to Italy and France rocketing

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Britons back ‘air bridges’ and tourism in Europe ‘re-opening this summer’, with searches for July holidays to Italy and France rocketing in the past few days by over 100 per cent Air bridges would allow people to travel without the need to undergo quarantine In response, Skyscanner says searches for holidays to Italy in July … Read more

Sweden has highest number of coronavirus deaths in the world per capita over the last seven days

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Sweden has highest number of coronavirus deaths in the world per capita over the last seven days after shunning lockdowns  Sweden had 6.08 deaths per million inhabitants per day on a rolling seven day average from May 13 to May 20 This is higher than any other country in the world, worse than the UK … Read more

Coronavirus: Apple and Google launch contact-tracing software

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Apple and Google have today announced the launch of their coronavirus contact-tracing app software.  The API — a software blueprint — will be used by a nation’s health authority to build their own apps and has so far been given to 22 countries who requested access to the technology.    Apple and Google did not reveal … Read more

Apple and Google launch their coronavirus contact-tracing software

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Apple and Google have today announced the launch of their coronavirus contact-tracing app software.  The API — a software blueprint — will be used by a nation’s health authority to build their own apps and has so far been given to 22 countries who requested access to the technology.    Apple and Google did not reveal … Read more

Britain has the second highest number of deaths in Europe per capita from Covid-19 over last week

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Britain has the second highest number of coronavirus deaths in Europe per capita over the last seven days after lockdown-free Sweden, data has revealed. Between May 12 and May 19, in a rolling seven day average, Britain saw 5.75 deaths per million inhabitants. In Sweden the figure was 6.25 deaths per million.  The United Kingdom’s … Read more

Iain Duncan Smith urges Boris Johnson to relax social distancing rule to ‘get economy moving’

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Should UK abandon two metre social distancing? Iain Duncan Smith urges Boris Johnson to relax rule to ‘get economy moving’ as Britain is ‘only country in Europe’ using measure Iain Duncan Smith said UK is ‘only country in Europe’ using two-metre measure  The UK is using the two-metre measure while Germany is using 1.5 metres … Read more