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NBA crisis
Rudy Gobert’s Utah Jazz faced the Boston Celtics, Detroit Pistons, and Toronto Raptors in five days before testing positive for coronavirus. Now, 20 per cent of NBA players are facing quarantine because of their recent contact with Gobert and the Utah Jazz.
Bated breath
Rugby leagues fans welcomed the start of the 2020 National Rugby League season last night. But with the global threat of the coronavirus, will it suffer the same fate as the USA’s NBA? We waited with bated breath.
Safety first
The operators of this aircraft are not taking any chance against the dreaded covid-19, although that mask may not cover the crew and passengers.
Black Friday
Today is another Friday the 13th, which to some means bad luck.
MPs’ salaries
We are still waiting for the Cabinet Minister who promised in January to tell us how much MPs and ministers receive. It’s now March.
Good excuse
Master Five returning from school yesterday told his grandparents that his teacher had coronavirus and that he shouldn’t be sent to school today. It was only later that grandpa found the little detention slip in his bag for “talking too much in class”.