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How to protect your mental health in the time of coronavirus

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How to protect your mental health in the time of coronavirus

From social isolation to working on the front line, the mental health challenges of the pandemic are wide reaching. We ask experts how to protect ourselves

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Ethnic minorities covid-19 coronavirus

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An unequal society means covid-19 is hitting ethnic minorities harder

Analysis

Anosmia

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Anosmia

Breathing exercises can help shift mucus but a covid-19 cough is normally dry

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Can breathing exercises really help protect you from covid-19?

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Patrick Vallance (centre) is the UK's chief scientific adviser

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UK’s coronavirus science advice won’t be published until pandemic ends

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What would a game-changing treatment for coronavirus look like?

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What would a game-changing treatment for coronavirus look like?

Analysis

End-of-life medical decisions being rushed through due to coronavirus

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End-of-life medical decisions being rushed through due to coronavirus

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How useful are apps for containing coronavirus outbreaks?

Technology

There are many reasons why covid-19 contact-tracing apps may not work

Analysis

Electricity pylon

Environment

Coronavirus crisis could cut UK summer electricity use by a fifth

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A London health care worker takes a man from an ambulance.

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Why are men more likely to get worse symptoms and die from covid-19?

More men die of covid-19 than women. Reasons for this may include differences in smoking, general health, immune defences, hormones and even hygiene

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Wuhan’s covid-19 crisis: Intensive care doctors share their stories

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Could the coronavirus trigger post-viral fatigue syndromes?

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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)