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China’s Global Times government propaganda newspaper predicted the demise of professional election polling in America in a column published Wednesday, noting the woefully inaccurate status of most polls before Tuesday’s presidential race.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage accused Democrat Joe Biden of peddling pessimism and fear about the Chinese coronavirus, and said that the election will ultimately come down to “whether hope trumps fear”.

VIENNA (AP) — Austria will impose a partial shutdown Tuesday that closes restaurants, bars and recreation facilities.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia has announced it will spend 500 million Australian dollars ($351 million) to secure COVID-19 vaccines for the Pacific and South-east Asia “as part of a shared recovery for our region from the pandemic.”

A British police chief has said it was the public’s “civic duty” to inform on each other if they are suspected of having breached coronavirus lockdown laws.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to impose a second national lockdown in England next week, as government models predict a deadly second wave of the Chinese coronavirus in the winter.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro spent much of the week condemning measures such as widespread lockdowns and mandatory vaccination planned against the Chinese coronavirus. He stated Wednesday morning he did not understand why countries would return to lockdowns and repeated his vow not to import Chinese vaccines the next day.

Scotland’s left-separatist devolved government has said children should not be allowed to go door-to-door this Halloween, in case they somehow spread the Chinese coronavirus to their neighbours.

A study published in the journal Cardiovascular Research Tuesday found that potentially millions of deaths of Chinese coronavirus patients may be linked to air pollution weakening the local population’s lungs.

North Korea’s communist regime is launching a crackdown against companies manufacturing masks without an appropriate license to protect factories in the capital of Pyongyang, Radio Free Asia reported Tuesday.

At a ‘Stop the New Normal’ protest in London on Saturday, thousands of Britons demonstrated against the British government’s China virus restrictions, including one woman who claimed the lockdowns have destroyed her business. In a message to Prime Minister Boris

Health authorities in China’s northwestern territory of Xinjiang said on Sunday that they detected 138 new asymptomatic cases of coronavirus over the past 24 hours in Shufu county.

A poll released this week by the Venezuelan firm Meganálisis found that, of those in the country who said they lived with someone diagnosed with Chinese coronavirus, only a little more than 12 percent said those diagnosed with coronavirus received a PCR test.

Former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has warned that China’s “evil regime” has been exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to increase its wealth and power globally.

A 104-year woman locked down in a care home for months has gone viral after filming a message begging to see her family again.

The British government sent up to £320 million to Chinese companies with links to the ruling communist party (CCP) during the rush to acquire ventilators and protective gear for healthcare workers in the initial outbreak of the China virus pandemic.

Cancer patients in Britain report their lives are being cut short by delayed diagnoses and treatment pauses due to the “obsession” with COVID-19.

ROME (AP) — Americans may love Naples for its most famous export, pizza. But the governor of Italy’s southern region had choice words for the exported American holiday of Halloween as Naples buckles under surging coronavirus infections.

French Health Minister Olivier Veran, former prime minister Edouard Philippe, and several other officials were raided by police as part of an investigation into the handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

Couples living apart in Tiers 2 and 3 of Boris Johnson’s lockdown zones are no longer allowed to have sex in each other’s homes unless they are part of a “support bubble”.

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to come together like they did in the spring to slow the spread of the coronavirus as the country posted another daily record of new cases Saturday.

ROME (AP) — Italy’s northern Lombardy region, where the European coronavirus outbreak began in late February, has taken new measures to contain rebounding infections, limiting bar service and alcohol sales, banning contact sports and closing bingo parlours.

A couple in the northern Italian city of Milan has been fined 400 euros by police after they kissed each other in public, violating Wuhan virus regulations.

Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro claimed in a nationally televised broadcast on Tuesday that Venezuela had developed several novel therapies to fight the Chinese coronavirus, including unspecified “miracle droplets” he claimed originated with a Catholic saint.

A large group of young revellers took to the streets of Liverpool on the eve of strict lockdown measures being introduced in the city, as England braces for the possibility of a second national lockdown.

England should be placed under a two-to-three-week national lockdown to stop the spread of the China virus pronounced the leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer on Tuesday. In a press conference, Sir Keir said that all pubs, bars,

Iran surpassed its single-day record for both new coronavirus infections and deaths on Monday for the second straight day, with more than 4,200 new cases and 272 fatalities.

Worshipping whistleblowers have revealed that a mosque in Huddersfield, England, has consistently skirted the China virus lockdown measures after it was shut down following two members of the mosque’s management contracting the virus.

Experts have warned of a “privacy crisis” in the United Kingdom as contact tracing data collected in pubs and restaurants is reportedly being sold on to third parties for advertising and other purposes.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The premier of Australia’s Victoria state is stepping up his fight with members of the public who don’t comply with pandemic regulations, saying close contacts of those infected who refuse a test will have to spend 21 days in quarantine.

School pupils across the United Kingdom are being banned from singing Happy Birthday in class over fears that it will increase the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

PRAGUE (AP) — Opposition parties in the Czech Republic have cemented their dominant position in Parliament’s upper house after winning big in an election for a third of the seats in the Senate, as the ruling centre-left coalition government suffered a setback.

LONDON (AP) — Mayors representing big cities in northern England have slammed the British government’s latest wage support package for employees in businesses that may be ordered to close as part of efforts to suppress local coronavirus outbreaks.

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic and neighbouring Slovakia have registered big jumps in new coronavirus infections, setting a new record for the fourth straight day.

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has used her delayed birthday honours list to celebrate the selfless work of people — some more famous than others — in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic.

The Cuban state propaganda outlet “Cuba Debate” published a story on Thursday lamenting that the embargo on the communist state keeps Havana from being able to ship its experimental anti-viral to the White House to help President Donald Trump fight the Chinese coronavirus