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1.59am BST01:59 We’ll be closing this blog shortly but will continue to have live updates over on our global coronavirus live blog here. Here’s a quick summary of everything that has happened in US politics today: The White House’s medical team said that Donald Trump, who is currently being treated…

The preventive measures that can reduce your risk of catching the novel coronavirus can also protect against another infectious disease, influenza. Face masks and social distancing measures reduce COVID-19 spread, but they also work against other pathogens. New flu data for the Southern hemisphere shows that the annual flu epidemics…

President Trump’s contraction of Covid-19 puts him in the company of two other conservative leaders who also made light of the risks of the coronavirus only to fall ill themselves, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. For both of those leaders, getting ill not only didn’t…

Just a few days ago, Trump flashily procured a mask from his jacket pocket during his debate with Biden to indicate his openness to wearing one. “I put a mask on when I think I need it,” he said grandly. But a few hours after a high-dollar fundraiser at his…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — President Donald Trump has tested positive for the coronavirus, joining a small group of world leaders who have been infected. Trump is 74, putting him at higher risk of serious complications. Here’s a look at other leaders who have had the virus. BORIS JOHNSON The British prime minister was…

President Donald Trump tweeted shortly before 1AM ET on Friday that he and his wife Melania have tested positive for COVID-19, following reports White House advisor Hope Hicks, who had traveled with him this week on Air Force One, had similarly tested positive. Trump isn’t the first world leader to…

Updated 2 months ago · Published on 2 Oct 2020 10:20AM · Scientists say there has been a marked spike of wildfires in the Brazilian Amazon, which far-right President Jair Bolsonaro continues to deny. – EPA pic, October 2, 2020. THE number of forest fires in Brazil’s Amazon increased sharply…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro told the United Nations on Tuesday that indigenous people in the Amazon were to blame for fires in the rainforest this year and attacked the media for spreading panic about the coronavirus pandemic.President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro speaks during the 75th annual U.N.…

BRASÍLIA (Reuters) - President Jair Bolsonaro said late on Wednesday Brazil was being “disproportionately” criticized for fires in the Amazon rainforest and Pantanal wetlands, at a time when many places around the world were seeing a surge in blazes.The number of fires in the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, likely…