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Joe Wicks is ‘tipped to lead government physical education curriculum to combat childhood obesity’

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Joe Wicks has been ‘tipped to lead new government physical education curriculum to help combat childhood obesity in the UK’ By Roxy Simons and Andrew Bullock For Mailonline Published: 01:54 BST, 31 May 2020 | Updated: 01:54 BST, 31 May 2020 Joe Wicks has allegedly been chosen to lead a new physical education curriculum on … Read more

Minneapolis Mayor says torched 3rd Precinct was abandoned to prevent ‘hand-to-hand’ combat

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says the city’s 3rd Police Precinct was ordered to be evacuated late Thursday to avoid ‘hand-to-hand combat’ with rioters who later stormed the building and set it on fire.  In an interview with WCCO Friday, Frey claimed that he and Police Chief Medaria Arradondo also believed that vacating the building would ‘deescalate … Read more

Daisy Lowe wears little black dress with combat boots in London

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Daisy Lowe pairs a smouldering LBD with edgy combat boots as she struts her stuff on a London stroll… weeks after ‘splitting’ from beau Jack Peñate By Ciara Farmer For Mailonline Published: 16:13 BST, 20 May 2020 | Updated: 16:24 BST, 20 May 2020 She reportedly split from her boyfriend Jack Peñate. And Daisy Lowe … Read more

RAF Typhoon pilots simulate combat in the Baltic Sea

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RAF Top Gun pilots swoop past NATO warships as they simulate combat off of Lithuania to test the vessels’ defences days after Putin ordered six new battleships for Russia’s Baltic fleet RAF typhoons are currently based in Lithuania to defend local NATO airspace    They also conduct training activities and exercises with other NATO allies  Pilots … Read more

International group of fact-checkers launch a WhatsApp chatbot to combat coronavirus misinformation

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International group of fact-checkers launch a myth-busting WhatsApp bot that lets users query terms like ‘masks’ to pull up trustworthy information on coronavirus The bot is designed by Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checkers Network It can be queried by WhatsApp users and pulls from the IFCN’s database IFCN’s chatbot also directs users to their local fact-check … Read more

Tiny Oxford firm is ‘extremely optimistic’ over pill it has developed to combat coronavirus

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Boss of tiny Oxford firm is ‘extremely optimistic’ over one-a-day pill it has developed to combat coronavirus BerGenBio, a British-Norwegian company has just 38 staff working for them The firm believe they have found the key to combat the coronavirus Chief executive of the company said tests on SARS-Cov-2 ‘showed big effects’ It works by … Read more

Saudi Arabia imposes full lockdown on holy cities of Mecca and Medina to combat coronavirus

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Saudi Arabia imposed a 24-hour curfew on Thursday in the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina, an extension of measures to combat coronavirus. The Saudi interior ministry stipulated exceptions, including for essential workers and to allow residents to buy food and access medical care. Cars may only carry one passenger. Saudi Arabia has recorded … Read more

Social distancing may have to be turned on and off to combat coronavirus, study claims

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Harvard researchers believe Americans may need to be at home much longer in order to ‘flatten the curve’ of the coronavirus spread and avoid overwhelming the US healthcare system.  A new Harvard study, which was posted Tuesday on the preprint server MedRxiv, claims that social distancing may have to be turned off and on like a … Read more

Robots could be trained to help combat the coronavirus pandemic 

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Robots could be trained to disinfect surfaces, take temperatures, collecting swabs and provide social support for quarantined patients to help combat the coronavirus pandemic Robots could undertake the ‘dull, dirty and dangerous jobs’, researchers argued These applications would help to lower the levels of human exposure to disease However, this would require the machines to gain … Read more

Rihanna’s charity pledges $5 million to help at-risk communities and health workers combat COVID-19

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What is the coronavirus?  A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more