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‘Running dry’: Zimbabweans turned away for vaccinations after shortages
As staff sit idle in treatment centres, anger focuses on government failures to secure supplies as fears of a third wave increase Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus…
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Scott Morrison moves to ramp up Covid vaccine rollout and opens access to 40-year-olds
Prime minister names senior army officer to head vaccination taskforce after national cabinet and likens rollout to turning back asylum seeker boats Delta variant of Covid found in Melbourne family…
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‘Hang them all’: India’s scammers profit from coronavirus misery
From fake medicines to fire extinguishers disguised as oxygen cylinders and recycled personal protective equipment, India’s coronavirus hell has been lucrative for its ever-inventive army of scammers, with sometimes deadly…
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Beyond the ‘gold standard’ cliches, inside the Howard Springs quarantine facility I find shelter | Chips Mackinolty
The traditional owners of Darwin named the quarantine facility Manigurr-ma, or ‘stringybark’. In times past and now, Manigurr-ma provides refuge When Japanese oil and gas giant Inpex built workers’ accommodation…
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Delta variant of Covid found in West Melbourne family who travelled to NSW
Victorian family who visited NSW south coast confirmed to have Delta variant, the predominant coronavirus variant in India Two ‘fleeting’ Melbourne Covid cases declared false positives Full list of Victorian…
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Coronavirus: HSBC to reopen Hong Kong office to all employees on Monday as fourth wave subsides
HSBC, the city’s biggest currency-issuing bank, plans to reopen its offices to all employees in Hong Kong beginning on Monday as the fourth wave of Covid-19 infections subsides and a…
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Coronavirus: Malaysia warns of rising child deaths; Singapore says sorry after teen gets wrong vaccine
Malaysia’s health authorities have raised concerns about a growing number of coronavirus deaths and serious cases involving children, after a surge in overall infections forced the Southeast Asian nation into…
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Now isn’t the time to make workers in lockdown jump through hoops to get support | Chris Edmond and Steven Hamilton
The Covid support package is clumsy – a cleaner solution would have been to make locked down workers eligible for jobseeker The government’s decision to provide “disaster” payments of up…
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Biden provides details on plan to share 80m Covid vaccine doses globally – as it happened
President explains how the first 25m doses will be disbursed Biden to meet with Queen Elizabeth this month on 13 June Sign up to receive First Thing – our daily…
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Get tested and stay home: Guangzhou tries to stem Covid-19 outbreak
Health authorities in the southern Chinese megacity of Guangzhou are hoping to stem a new outbreak of Covid-19 infections through vastly expanded testing capacity and strict quarantine measures in affected…