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Coronavirus: Australians protest lockdowns; Bali faces oxygen crisis
Thousands of people on Saturday took to the streets of Sydney and other cities in Australia to protest Covid-19 lockdown restrictions amid another surge in cases, and police made several…
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UK holidaymakers booked for France could lose money if they do not go
Some accommodation providers refuse to defer breaks despite Covid quarantine decision See all our coronavirus coverage Holidaymakers who were hoping to head to France in the coming weeks are in…
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Boris Johnson wants to mimic Tony Blair’s project, say No 10 sources
PM wants to echo Blair’s promise of an ‘opportunity society’ and energise those who feel left behind Boris Johnson intends to mimic aspects of Tony Blair’s political project in the…
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Thousands gather across Australia in anti-lockdown protests – video
Anti-lockdown protesters have marched in major Australian cities, as Covid cases spiked to record numbers in Sydney and authorities warned of a ‘continuing and growing problem’. Thousands of angry, unmasked…
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Coronavirus: Singapore’s on-off rules on dining in leave chefs, restaurateurs vexed
Some of Singapore’s top chefs are fed up with the government’s on-again, off-again measures to stop the spread of Covid-19, which include a temporary shutdown of in-person dining.Faced with a…
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Hong Kong cybercrime: ‘pretty girls and strange uncles’ target youngsters spending more time online during pandemic
Henry Huang Qihao learned a lesson in Form One that he never forgot: beware of strangers you befriend online.A gamer he met over the internet tricked him into sharing his…
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Thai volunteers step up as Covid-19 Delta cases send hospitals to ‘point of collapse’
Thanapon Songput, a worker at the non-profit Mirror Foundation, has been arranging to provide oxygen tanks for Covid-19 patients around Thailand’s capital in the past month.The group allocates up to…
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In Singapore, vaccinated people made up three-quarters of recent Covid-19 cases, but few fell ill
Vaccinated individuals accounted for three-quarters of Singapore’s Covid-19 infections in the last four weeks, but they were not falling seriously ill, government data showed, as a rapid ramp-up in inoculations…
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‘Stop the Olympics’: hundreds protest outside Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony – video
Hundreds of protesters carrying placards that read ‘Lives over Olympics’ gathered outside Japan’s National Stadium where the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics was being held. The Games, to be…
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‘Trust the science’ is the mantra of the Covid crisis – but what about human fallibility?
Science is the only method we have of understanding the world, making predictions, and rationally adapting our own behaviour Follow our Covid live blog for the latest updates Restrictions: NSW;…