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A BABY boy has tested positive for coronavirus just two days after being born. Presley Dowdall was born at Basildon Hospital in Essex on May 11 but was rushed to an intensive care unit shortly after. He was struggling to breathe and was later diagnosed with Covid-19. Mum Roxanne Dowdall said she was stunned at Presley's diagnosis. "It was such a shock and I couldn't believe what I was hearing. It felt like time had stood still and I was living someone else's story," she told the Southend Echo. "I remember feeling a sense of guilt. Why couldn't I protect my newborn son? "I had a million questions going around in my head about how he could test positive." Ms Dowdall was induced at...

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A Chinese migrant worker in a dispute with his employer about his right to return home was allowed to do so yesterday after he shocked fellow residents at a Punggol dorm by threatening to jump from its fourth floor. In a statement confirming the Tuesday incident happened, the Ministry of Manpower said it stemmed from a lack of communication. The PPT Lodge 1B dormitory had been cleared of COVID-19 on July 4 but remained locked down, it said. “Investigations revealed that the worker purchased a flight ticket to his home country on his own and became agitated when his employer was not facilitative of his return,” the ministry said. “He is staying in a block that was...

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CK Asset (1113.HK), founded by tycoon Li Ka-shing, said it had sold a residential and commercial development project in the Southwest Chinese city of Chengdu for around $1 billion. The company expected an unaudited gain of HK$3.8 billion ($490.22 million) from the disposal to a company jointly owned by Chinese property developers Yuzhou Group (1628.HK) and Chengdu Ruizhuo Real Estate Co, it said in a filing on Thursday night. CK Asset's shares gained as much as 1.6% in early trading on Friday, outperforming the broader market .HSI, before retreating 0.2% at midday. Yuzhou Group fell 1.5% while Hang Seng Index eased 1.8%. In a separate statement, the Hong Kong developer said Li Ka-shing...

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Fans have gone to desperate lengths to watch a popular speedway race by renting cranes to peer over into the stadium after social distancing guidelines prevented them from entering. The supporters were spotted high above the Stadion Żużlowy Motor Lublin in Poland on Sunday as they watched the national Speedway Extra League. The stadium, which has a capacity of 13,000, is only allowed to fill 25 per cent of its seats during events amid the coronavirus pandemic - and so fans decided to take matters into their own hands. The eager speedway enthusiasts stood on the cherry picker platforms in groups of two or three with the shortest at around 65 feet (20 metres) off the ground. Many...

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British people should eat less to lose weight as being obese increases the risk of dying from the novel coronavirus, junior health minister Helen Whately said on Monday. Whately said that those with a body mass index of over 40 had double the risk of dying from COVID-19. The UK also imposed strict new limits on junk food advertising as ministers seek to control the country’s growing obesity problem. Advertising of foods high in fat, sugar or salt on television and online before 9pm will be banned, the country’s health and social care department said Monday. Large restaurants will be required to include calorie counts on menus, and junk food adverts will be banned before 9pm,...

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North Korea has declared an emergency and a lockdown in a border town after a person suspected of having coronavirus returned from South Korea after illegally crossing the border, state media has said. If confirmed, it would be the first case officially acknowledged by North Korean authorities. Kim Jong-un convened an emergency politburo meeting in response to what he called a “critical situation in which the vicious virus could be said to have entered the country”, the North’s KCNA state news reported. A person who defected to South Korea three years ago returned across the fortified border that divides the two Koreas to the town of Kaesong this month with symptoms of...

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The Queens Hospital Centre emergency department has a capacity of 60, but on its worst night of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 180 patients lay on stretchers in the observation bays and hallways.Alarms rang incessantly as exhausted doctors rushed from crisis to crisis. Less than 4 miles (6.3km) away, a temporary hospital opened the next morning, on April 10. The facility, which was built at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre to relieve the city’s overwhelmed hospitals, had hundreds of beds and scores of medical professionals trained to treat virus patients. But in the entire month that the site remained open, it treated just three patients from the Queens Hospital...

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Would you give up a fortune to become richer in other more profound ways? Venerable Ajahn Siripanyo did. The Thai-Malaysian Buddhist monk dedicates his life to spiritual servitude, leaving behind a world of riches and spoils. But just how much wealth has Mr Siripanyo given up? A lot, as it turns out: He is, after all, the son of Malaysia’s third richest man, self-made billionaire Ananda Krishnan, who’s worth more than US$5 billion (S$6.92 billion). If Mr Siripanyo intends to remain as hidden as possible, it’s working. It’s been remarkably challenging to find traces of his life before becoming a monk. But with some digging work, we’ve unearthed five things to...

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Rock star Jon Bon Jovi closed on an oceanfront mansion in Palm Beach for $43 million, after selling his home down the street for less than half of that. The “Livin’ On A Prayer” artist acquired the seven-bedroom, 10,232-square-foot mansion at 1075 North Ocean Boulevard on the same day he sold the oceanfront home at 230 North Ocean Boulevard for $19.8 million, records show. Bon Jovi used the same LLC that sold the smaller home to purchase the larger one. Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate represented Bon Jovi in both deals, as well as the seller of 1075 North Ocean Boulevard, according to Realtor.com. The seller of the larger estate is Jeffrey A....

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Global cases have reached 15,667,461, according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The worldwide death toll has hit 638,238. Saturday, July 25 12:59 a.m. Human trials of Russia's second potential coronavirus vaccine, developed by the Siberian Vector institute, will begin on July 27, reports Reuters, citing the TASS news agency. An early-stage human trial of a separate vaccine, developed by the Gamaleya institute in Moscow, was completed this month, with scientists hailing the results and authorities planning to move to mass production in the autumn. 12:40 a.m. Gold futures have topped $1,900 per troy ounce, a psychologically important price threshold, amid rising...

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