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Singapore to vaccinate 12-year-olds and allow groups of 5 as Covid-19 restrictions ease
Singapore will on Friday widen its vaccination policy to include people aged 12 and above and those who have recovered from an earlier infection as the country prepares to relax…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong children aged 12 to 15 can begin booking vaccination slots from Friday, get jabs on Monday
Hong Kong children as young as 12 can begin booking Covid-19 vaccination slots from Friday and receiving the jabs as early as Monday, the government has announced. The expansion of the…
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Covid: India posts global record deaths after state revises data
India records 6,000 deaths in 24 hours, stoking suspicions death toll is much higher than reported Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage India has recorded a global…
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Australia to discuss travel bubble with Singapore as leaders meet ahead of G7
Scott Morrison and Lee Hsien Loong also expected to talk about South China Sea and how to handle Beijing’s actions in the region Scott Morrison will discuss a travel bubble…
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Masks to remain mandatory outdoors in Melbourne after four new Covid cases detected
The husband of a woman who travelled from Melbourne to the Sunshine Coast via NSW also tests positive to coronavirus in Queensland Qld Covid hotspots; NSW hotspots; Vic exposure sites…
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‘Extremely rare’: Australia records second death ‘likely linked’ to AstraZeneca vaccine blood clots
TGA says 52-year-old New South Wales woman died ‘with a blood clot in the brain’, but it maintains vaccine benefits outweigh risks Victoria’s coronavirus restrictions explained What does the AstraZeneca…
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NSW parents shocked by school invite to webinar to ‘choose not to take’ Covid vaccine
Parent ‘gobsmacked’ to receive emailed invitation from Donna McCulloch of Thomas More Christian Montessori school in Bega A parent whose children attend a Montessori school in regional New South Wales…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong explores using finger pricks to draw blood for airport antibody tests
Hong Kong health authorities are exploring different methods of drawing blood via finger pricks for Covid-19 antibody screenings that would be administered at the airport, a government medical adviser has…
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Secret planning exercise in 2016 modelled impact of Mers outbreak in UK
Expert says Exercise Alice, one of 10 exercises disclosed under FoI, could have been relevant to Covid response Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The government ran…