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Jacquelin Magnay is the Europe Correspondent for The Australian, based in London and covering all manner of big stories across political, business, Royals and security issues. She is a George Munster and Walkley Award winning journalist with senior media roles in Australian and British newspapers. Before joining The Australian in 2013 she was the UK Telegraph’s Olympics Editor.

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CORONAVIRUS UKWorld

(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 03, 2020 Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a press conference at 10 Downing Street in London on March 3, 2020 to unveil government planning to combat coronavirus. - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spent the night in intensive care after being admitted with a deteriorating case of coronavirus, prompting serious concerns on April 7, 2020 about his health and the government's response to a still-escalating outbreak. (Photo by Frank Augstein / POOL / AFP)

Boris Johnson ‘will be back leading us soon’

Boris Johnson continues to receive oxygen treatment in intensive care as caretaker leader admits the serious illness as been a shock to cabinet.

Jacquelin Magnay

LIVE: CORONAVIRUS CRISISNation

Prime Minister Scott Morrison with the Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Gary Ramage

Virus modelling to help cabinet out of crisis

The PM says COVID-19 modelling will help national cabinet plan a way to relax social distancing, but not yet, as death toll hits 48

Richard Ferguson, Jacquelin Magnay and Lachlan Moffet Gray

British PMWorld

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is taking charge of the Government's response to the coronavirus crisis after Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to intensive care Monday, arrives at 10 Downing Street, London. (Photo by Stefan Rousseau/PA Images via Getty Images)

Johnson in battle of his life

Britain is a nation in shock with Prime Minister Boris Johnson seriously ill in an intensive care unit, requiring oxygen.

Jacquelin Magnay

LIVE: CORONAVIRUS CRISISNation

The Ruby Princess has docked at Port Kembla early today crew can be seen on board .picture John Grainger

Virus-riddled death ship claims 12th life

Another passenger from the Ruby Princess has died, bringing the death toll from the cruise ship to twelve and the national death toll to 40.

Elias Visontay and Lachlan Moffet Gray

World

(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 02, 2020 A handout image released by 10 Downing Street, shows Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson as he participates in a national

PM in hospital but ‘hand on tiller’

Britain’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been rocked with the hospital admission of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Jacquelin Magnay

Historic addressWorld

In this image taken from video and made available by Buckingham Palace, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II addresses the nation and the Commonwealth from Windsor Castle, Windsor, England, Sunday April 5, 2020. Queen Elizabeth II made a rare address, calling on Britons to rise to the challenge of the coronavirus pandemic, to exercise self-discipline in â€œan increasingly challenging timeâ€. (Buckingham Palace via AP)

Queen’s message for Australia

The Queen says she is confident Australians will ‘rise to the challenge’ of the pandemic after a summer of devastating bushfires.

Jacquelin Magnay

CORONAVIRUS UKWorld

A handout picture released by the Scottish Government on April 5, 2020 shows Chief Medical Officer for Scotland Catherine Calderwood attending a briefing on the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, at St. Andrew's House, Edinburgh, as life in Britain continues during the nationwide lockdown to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic. - Scotland's chief medical officer apologised for ignoring her own advice about non-essential travel. Police said they warned Catherine Calderwood for twice visiting her family's second home more than hour from Edinburgh after photographs were published in a newspaper. (Photo by - / Scottish Government / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Chief medical officer ignores own rules

Scotland’s chief medical officer forced to apologise after it was revealed she twice drove more than an hour to visit her family’s rural retreat.

Jacquelin Magnay

World

(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 23, 2019 shows Britain's Queen Elizabeth II posing for a photograph after she recorded her annual Christmas Day message in Windsor Castle, west of London. - Queen Elizabeth II will make a special broadcast this weekend to Britain and the Commonwealth on the coronavirus pandemic, Buckingham Palace said on Apri 3, 2020.

Good-humoured resolve will overcome: Queen

The Queen has told the British people that ‘in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded’.

Jacquelin Magnay

CORONAVIRUS UKWorld

A handout picture released by 10 Downing Street, the office of the British prime minister on March 28, 2020, shows an image of Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson on a computer screen as he remotely chairs the morning novel coronavirus Covid-19 meeting by video link, in Downing Street in central London. - The two men leading Britain's fight against the coronavirus -- Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Health Secretary Matt Hancock -- both announced Friday they had tested positive for COVID-19, as infection rates accelerated and daily death rate rose sharply. (Photo by - / 10 Downing Street / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Boris ‘may not be able to leave quarantine’

His health secretary is back at work, but the news is not so good for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson as he battles virus.

Jacquelin Magnay

CoronavirusNation

Professor Angus Dalgleish believes countries that have had historic mass vaccinations of the BCG tuberculosis injection, are showing vastly reduced rates of severe coronavirus infections.

Tuberculosis vaccine may fight virus

One of the world’s leading immunologists believes a decades-old tuberculosis vaccine could be a solution to the coronavirus pandemic.

Jacquelin Magnay

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