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By Sanwar Ali

During the coronavirus pandemic Londoners try and get on with their lives.  The "UK Lockdown" has now been extended for another three weeks at least until 7 May 2020.  I am including below various scenes of the Docklands area of London during the Coronavirus.  During coronavirus COVID-19 I am avoiding travelling too far to take pictures!  So these scenes are near to the home and office in the London Docklands area.

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70% of deaths of health and social care workers due to coronavirus COVID-19 have been people from an ethnic minority.  People from BAME groups (Black, Asian and minority ethnic) represent 13 percent of the population in England and Wales.  However, 44 percent of NHS doctors and 24 percent of Nurses are from a BAME group.  Therefore, those from BAME groups are more l

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The US cut in World Health Organisation (WHO) funding has been highly controversial.  No organisation is perfect.  However, in the 1960s and 1970s, despite the Cold War, thanks to WHO both the United States and the Soviet Union worked together to end Smallpox a serious infectious disease in 1980.  Coronavirus COVID-19 is a virus that, simil

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The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has caused huge problems for migrants around the World.  It is usually the case that work visa holders and many other migrants do not have access to the same benefits that permanent residents and citizens are entitled to.  Governments around the World are not used to dealing with

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6,300 undocumented migrants were expelled on the Mexico border using emergency powers granted due to coronavirus.  Working migrants, many on H1B visas are also suffering.  

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There are ongoing arguments about the new UK visa system, post-Brexit and how businesses will cope once EU citizens wishing to come to the UK can no longer work freely in the UK.  There are also concerns that businesses having to deal with the coronavirus situation, an