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Picture: ANDREW PARSONS / NO 10 DOWNING STREET, GETTY.By Mark ReynoldsBy Hanna Geisslerappointed Foreign Secretary and
First Secretary of State on July
24, 2019.
That means that as of today,
Mr Raab has just over one year
of Cabinet experience under his
belt – eight months in Mr
Johnson’s administration and
five in Mrs May’s.
Upon being appointed Foreign
Secretary, Mr Raab was soon
thrust into handling the
Transatlantic fall-out over the
death of British teenager Harry
Dunn in a road crash outside
RAF Croughton, Northants.Whitehall ladder he finally broke
into the Cabinet in July 2018,
when Theresa May made him
Brexit Secretary following the
resignation of David Davis.
However, he would last only
until November of the same year
as he also quit in protest at the
then-PM’s Brexit plans – just like
his predecessor.
Having entered the Tory lead-
ership contest in late May 2019,
he was quickly eliminated but
swiftly announced he was sup-
porting Mr Johnson’s candidacy.
He was then subsequentlycancer when he was just 12 and
was also a successful boxer at
university.
Last year he said: “Sport
helped restore my confidence,
and that hugely benefited my
attitude to school and life.”The Cambridge graduate was
first elected as the Conservative
MP for Esher and Walton in
2010, but had to wait five years
for a proper ministerial job.
After slowly climbing thebriefing, which he has already
done on several other occasions.
The dramatic deterioration in
the PM’s health has suddenly
thrust Mr Raab into the spotlight,
completing what has been a
meteoric rise for the former
Foreign Office lawyer.
The father of two – married to
a Brazilian marketing executive
called Erika who used to work
for Google – is the son of a
Czech-born Jewish refugee who
fled the Nazis in 1938.
He took up martial arts to help
cope with his father’s death fromDX1STLight at end of the
tunnel after some
countries say the
tide is now turning
FRESH hope emerged yesterday from
countries across the world as China,
Germany, Italy, South Korea and
Australia all reported encouraging
results in the battle against coronavirus.
In Europe, Germany recorded fewer
than 4,000 new infections for the second
day running.
Berlin said the number of daily
recoveries in Germany had for the first
time exceeded new cases, indicating
lockdowns are starting to bite.
Some 7,381 people recovered from the
illness in 24 hours, compared with 3,
new cases, the lowest growth in
infections in two weeks, according to
data from Johns Hopkins University.
But deaths still rose by 226 to 1,810,
the highest number of new fatalities in a
day for the country.
Elsewhere, there were also some
green shoots of recovery.
Italy’s number of new cases has
continued to drop with 3,039 new cases
in a 24-hour period. Italy has not seen
such a low daily number since the early
weeks of the outbreak.
It has 135,586 confirmed cases, with a
total death toll of 16,523.
For the first time in months, China
recorded not a single death in the past
day. China reported just 32 new cases,all of which it said were imported by
people coming in from abroad.
There was also positive news from
South Korea as authorities in the capital
Seoul said that the number of new cases
had remained under 50 for second day
in a row.
And in Australia, Prime Minister Scott
Morrison reported good progress
tackling the virus, with health chiefs
saying they are successfully flattening
the curve. There are more than 5,
cases but fewer than 100 people in
intensive care.
Australia’s chief medical officer Dr
Brendan Murphy said: “We are flattening
the curve. We are on a life raft and we
now have to chart the course for where
we take that life raft.”
The worst news continued to come
out of the US with some 1,150 deaths in
a day, more than any other country.
New York governor Andrew Cuomo
said 731 more people had died of the
virus in the state since Monday, the
highest one-day total recorded yet. The
death toll there now stands at 5,489.
The US has recorded 380,000 cases
and 11,800 deaths.
There was disappointing news from
Spain too which yesterday saw a rise in
its daily death toll and the rate at which
new cases were being reported, ending
several days of declining numbers.
The country reported 743 deaths, up
from the 637 reported on Monday and
674 on Sunday. The total now stands at
13,798, up from 13,055.
Japan yesterday declared a month-
long state of emergency as cases
continued to rise.He took up
martial arts at
12 to help him
cope with the
death of his
father, who had
fled the Nazis
with more patients. Experts
said the results should be
treated with caution as there
are safety concerns around
the treatment.
Sir Munir Pirmohamed,
president of the British
Pharmacological Society,
said: “This was not a
randomised trial and all
patients also received other
treatments including Vials of blood ready for testing in lab6XUYLYRUVDQWLERGLHVFRXOGEHDWWKHEXJ
A DOSE of antibodies from a
coronavirus survivor could be
a treatment for the most
seriously ill, a study suggests.
Research on 10 patients
showed symptoms, including
shortness of breath and chest
pain, subsided in three days
and patients had more
disease-fighting white blood
cells and antibodies.
But scientists in Wuhan,
China, acknowledged that
further studies are neededProtest
antivirals such as remdesivir,
which are currently in trials
for Covid-19.
“Even if shown to work,
scalability to treat large
numbers of patients may
become an issue. There is a
need for robustly
designed randomised
controlled trials.”
The findings were
published in the journal
Proceedings Of The National
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