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2020-03-31
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After Boris Johnson brings in new measures, the BBC explains why staying in is a matter of life and deathBBC World
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Boris Johnson says "there really is such a thing as society" in self-isolation update – video originalThe British prime minister Boris Johnson has stressed that ‘there really is such a thing as society’ in a message released while self-isolating with Covid-19 ... The line is a direct contradiction of his Conservative predecessor Margaret Thatcher who said "there is no such thing as society" in 1987 as an endorsement of pure individualismThe Guardian
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Britain’s prime minister needs a new communication strategy — and fastNew York Times
2020-03-30
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UK prime minister’s refusal to criticise Amazon fires and sharp rise in deforestation praised by Brazilian ambassador Boris Johnson was personally thanked by the Brazilian government for refusing to support European action over the Amazon fires, according to documents obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism ... As the rainforest burned last summer – fuelled by a sharp rise in deforestation that critics blame partly on President Jair Bolsonaro’s agenda – Johnson criticised a threat by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, to block the EU’s Mercosur trade deal with BrazilThe Guardian
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces he has tested positive for the coronavirus ... Health Secretary Matt Hancock says he has it tooLA Times
2020-03-27
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Parts of London were almost entirely deserted on the second full day of national lockdown, after Boris Johnson ordered the country to stay at home unless absolutely necessary to halt the spread of the coronavirusAn unreal city: lockdown in LondonEngland: police to get power to use force to impose coronavirus lockdown Continue readingThe Guardian
2020-03-24
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced strict measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus ... He says a "huge national effort" has been needed to halt the spread, adding: "there will come a moment when no health service in the world could possibly cope because there won"t be enough ventilators, enough intensive care beds, enough doctors and nursesSlashDot
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The world is different today—and not just because of the coronavirus ... Events seem to turn it more quickly: Viruses become pandemics in weeks; medical challenges become life-and-death emergencies in days; and freedoms, once sacred, are removed in minutes live on TVThe Atlantic
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Boris Johnson has ordered that people stay in their homes, aside from four exemptions ... Only essential businesses will be allowed to stay open and the police will be empowered to enforce the measuresNPR
