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Warhammer maker Games Workshop hands staff £5,000 bonus after lockdown sales surge
UK firm praises workers for ‘exceptional performance’ during pandemic after sales rose more than a third Warhammer retailer Games Workshop is handing its shop workers, model makers, designers and support…
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New Covid-19 variants prompt IMF to slash China, emerging Asia economic growth outlook
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday cut its economic growth forecast for China this year because of the patchy recovery from new coronavirus variants, as Beijing focuses on reducing…
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California and New York City to mandate vaccine for government workers
Department of Veterans Affairs becomes first major federal agency to require healthcare workers to receive Covid shot California and New York City announced on Monday that they would require all…
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Sydney Covid lockdown restrictions: update to Orange and regional NSW coronavirus rules explained
Covid restrictions for greater Sydney, including residents in the Fairfield, Canterbury-Bankstown, Liverpool, Cumberland and Blacktown LGAs, the Central Coast, Blue Mountains and Wollongong to be extended, with lockdown set to…
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Greater Sydney lockdown to be extended by four weeks as Covid cases continue to rise
NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian will announce the extension on Wednesday after the state reported 172 new local Delta cases – a record for this outbreak NSW Covid update: 172 new…
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Hong Kong tourism sector pleads with government to reopen border with mainland China
Hong Kong’s battered tourism sector has urged the government to reopen its border with mainland China as soon as possible or at least extend the lifespan of Covid-19 vaccination centres,…
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Coronavirus: people in UK travel hundreds of miles for Chinatown shots
Undocumented Asian migrants in Britain are travelling hundreds of kilometres to get coronavirus vaccine shots in London’s Chinatown instead of local doctors. On Monday, about 1,500 people were offered jabs…
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Grateful Taiwan accepts vaccines, praises Czech Republic for democracy
The Czech Republic is donating 30,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines to Taiwan, the island’s president said on Tuesday, praising the central European country for taking a step that could irritate…
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Why is the Delta coronavirus variant faster to make people sick?
Researchers in China say their study of a coronavirus outbreak in the country’s south this year sheds light on why the Delta strain of the pathogen is quicker to make…