{"id":146605,"date":"2020-06-02T16:01:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T14:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/02\/uk-coronavirus-live-mps-debate-controversial-plan-to-end-remote-voting-in-commons\/"},"modified":"2020-06-02T16:01:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T14:01:05","slug":"uk-coronavirus-live-mps-debate-controversial-plan-to-end-remote-voting-in-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=146605","title":{"rendered":"UK coronavirus live: MPs debate controversial plan to end remote voting in Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News updates: death rate in England higher among BAME people; statistics authority says testing data \u2018widely criticised and often mistrusted\u2019UK coronavirus death toll nears 50,000, latest official figures showChris Whitty \u2018vetoed lowering of coronavirus alert level\u2019How will UK\u2019s new 14-day coronavirus quarantine work?\u2018Flora needs me\u2019: MP caring for wife hits out at Jacob Rees-Mogg\u2019s planCoronavirus \u2013 latest global updates 3.01pm BST Death rates from Covid-19 in England have been higher among people of black and Asian origin than any other ethnic group, a government-ordered inquiry has found.In addition, those people of black backgrounds are the ethnic group most likely to be diagnosed with the disease, which has claimed almost 50,000 lives in the UK since February. Related: Covid-19 death rate in England higher among BAME people 2.58pm BST British households repaid record amounts of debt racked up on credit cards and personal loans in April as consumers stayed away from the high street during lockdown.Figures from the Bank of England show \u00a37.4bn of consumer credit was repaid during the first full month of strict restrictions on business and social life, the largest net repayment since records began in 1993. Related: UK consumers repay record \u00a37.4bn of debt in Covid-19 lockdown Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2020\/jun\/02\/coronavirus-uk-live-news-updates-covid-19-quarantine-plans-mps-westminster\" target=\"_blank\">UK coronavirus live: MPs debate controversial plan to end remote voting in Commons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News updates: death rate in England higher among BAME people; statistics authority says testing data \u2018widely criticised and often mistrusted\u2019UK coronavirus death toll nears 50,000, latest official figures showChris Whitty \u2018vetoed lowering of coronavirus alert level\u2019How will UK\u2019s new 14-day coronavirus quarantine work?\u2018Flora needs me\u2019: MP caring for wife hits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}