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'The service is appalling': drivers face delays as DVLA fails to send licences

'The service is appalling': drivers face delays as DVLA fails to send licences
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In hunt for Covid's origin, new studies point away from lab leak theory

In hunt for Covid's origin, new studies point away from lab leak theory
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'I felt nauseous in Topshop': why a fashion editor gave up buying new clothes

It was April 2019. I was seven months pregnant and in Topshop, looking for something large in which to rehome my body. I was wearing a maternity dress that, if you had seen me pregnant, you would have recognised – a cheap, pleated wraparound in a red floral print that expanded as I expanded. I imagined Issey Miyake, but increasingly looked more like an armchair. It had served me well, but I was determined to buy something, anything, to see me...

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Picture of two pandemics: Covid cases fall in rich west as poorer nations suffer

Picture of two pandemics: Covid cases fall in rich west as poorer nations suffer
Peter Beaumont
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A Covid patient receives oxygen as he lies on a bed outside an emergency ward of a hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Friday. Photograph: Niranjan Shrestha/AP
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India's Covid crisis: Delhi crematoriums forced to build makeshift pyres

India's Covid crisis: Delhi crematoriums forced to build makeshift pyres
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Notre Dame repair a metaphor for pulling together, says Macron

Notre Dame repair is metaphor for France pulling together, says Macron
Angelique Chrisafisin Paris
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has used the reconstruction of the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral as a metaphor for the country pulling together as France reached the symbolic mark of 100,000 deaths from coronavirus.
Macron toured the upper levels of the Notre Dame site in a hard hat and overalls on the second anniversary of the fire that ripped through the roof of the Gothic masterpiece in 2019.
Workers talked to the French president, who is under pressure as locked-down France faces a third wave of the pandemic with many hospitals at saturation point, of their efforts to secure and steady the site, despite difficulties due to lead levels and Covid restrictions.

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Notre Dame repair is metaphor for France pulling together, says Macron

Notre Dame repair is metaphor for France pulling together, says Macron
Angelique Chrisafisin Paris
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has used the reconstruction of the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral as a metaphor for the country pulling together as France reached the symbolic mark of 100,000 deaths from coronavirus.
Macron toured the upper levels of the Notre Dame site in a hard hat and overalls on the second anniversary of the fire that ripped through the roof of the Gothic masterpiece in 2019.
Workers talked to the French president, who is under pressure as locked-down France faces a third wave of the pandemic with many hospitals at saturation point, of their efforts to secure and steady the site, despite difficulties due to lead levels and Covid restrictions.

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Notre Dame repair is metaphor for France pulling together, says Macron

Notre Dame repair is metaphor for France pulling together, says Macron
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'Covid is taking over': Brazil plunges into deadliest chapter of its epidemic

'Covid is taking over': Brazil plunges into deadliest chapter of its epidemic
Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
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Photograph: André Penner/AP
It was midway through February when André Machado realized Brazil’s coronavirus catastrophe was racing into a bewildering and remorseless new phase. “The floodgates opened and the water came gushing out,” recalled the infectious disease specialist from the Our Lady of the Conception hospital in Porto Alegre, one of the largest cities in southern Brazil.
Since then, Machado’s hospital, like health centres up and down the country, has been engulfed by a deluge of jittery, gasping patients – many of them previously healthy and bafflingly young. Among the recent admissions was a heavily pregnant 37-year-old who was brought in complaining of breathing difficulties and a cough. Doctors performed an emergency C-section to deliver the baby in a desperate bid to take the pressure off the expectant mother’s Covid-racked lungs.

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'Covid is taking over': Brazil plunges into deadliest chapter of its epidemic

'Covid is taking over': Brazil plunges into deadliest chapter of its epidemic
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