Daily coronavirus thread: Texas overtook California to become the US state with the second-highest number of deaths and Asia-Pacific markets followed Wall Street higher on hopes for a US stimulus deal. Follow our live coverage here: on.ft.com/3iHEg8i
Donald Trump described Regeneron’s antibody treatment as a ‘cure’ and called his Covid-19 infection ‘a blessing from God’ on.ft.com/3d9wS4x
US drugmaker Eli Lilly’s Covid-19 antibody could become one of the first treatments available to patients with moderate cases on.ft.com/2F9Tfdy
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New social restrictions now seem inevitable in northern England after local lockdowns failed. The question is: how far will they go? on.ft.com/3d6XC5P
Almost one in five UK businesses are planning to increase homeworking permanently, a trend seen as a threat to the livelihood of city centres ft.com/content/bd7834…
Covid-19 has killed three times more English and Welsh people this year than influenza and pneumonia combined, the Office for National Statistics reported on Thursday ft.com/content/bd7834…
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Daily coronavirus thread: China will join the WHO-backed Covax initiative aimed at ensuring fair distribution of a vaccine and new US cases topped 50,000 for a second day. Follow our live coverage: on.ft.com/3jIz3i9
China’s currency jumped by the most in two and a half years on Friday as traders returned from the lengthy National Day holiday ft.com/content/769e21…
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But ‘American elite and popular opinion has fundamentally changed . . . from balancing co-operation and competition’ to confrontation, says former Barack Obama adviser Evan Medeiros ft.com/content/75ce18…
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A little background on live blogger @RanaForoohar. She grew up in rural Indiana. “The Indiana of my youth was a lot like Mike Pence — white, religious, conservative… But Indiana has changed. It has become much more diverse,” she notes #VPDebateft.com/content/6283ac…
As Election Day approaches, retirees in the crucial battleground state are deserting the US president over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic on.ft.com/33BuQa6
In Florida, one in five residents is over 65. The state is a magnet for retirees from the US north-east and Midwest, who are drawn by warmer weather and lower taxes ft.com/content/bd6e6c…
Donald Trump himself calls Florida home after switching his primary residence from New York to Mar-a-Lago, his resort in Palm Beach. But polls show the president is haemorrhaging support among seniors — a shift that could prove decisive in November ft.com/content/bd6e6c…
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The number of east Asians in poverty will rise for the first time in 20 years as the result of the pandemic, the World Bank has warned on.ft.com/2S7bTFN
The $5 Covid-19 antigen tests can confirm an infection in 15 minutes on.ft.com/36h020e