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‘Cautious hugging’ and pints as UK eases lockdown, while Spaniards dance in the streets
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday gave the green light to cautious hugging and the serving of pints inside pubs after months of strict restrictions as he set out…
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Nepal is being overwhelmed by Covid. We need help | KP Sharma Oli
There are deep bonds between our nations, and so I appeal to the UK, chair of the G7, for urgent assistance KP Sharma Oli is the prime minister of Nepal…
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Coronavirus: BioNTech chooses Singapore as its Asia-Pacific vaccine hub
German drug maker BioNTech, whose coronavirus vaccine with Pfizer was the first to be approved in the United States and Europe for use last year, on Monday announced a new…
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Coronavirus: Malaysia to enter new lockdown as Muhyiddin warns of national crisis
Malaysia will impose a nearly month-long nationwide partial lockdown starting on Wednesday, the government has said, as new Covid-19 cases continue to rise ahead of this week’s celebration of the…
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‘A hopeless situation’: oxygen shortage fuels Nepal’s Covid crisis
Terrible scenes seen in India of a healthcare system in collapse are being repeated across the border Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The story of Dilli…
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‘Like purgatory’: diaspora in despair as India sinks deeper into Covid crisis
Indian Americans scramble to secure oxygen canisters for family members, desperately work to raise funds and pressure US legislators to lift vaccine patents Since the pandemic began, Fatima Ahmed has…
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Tokyo Olympics: as Japan struggles to contain coronavirus, pressure builds on athletes to withdraw
Rikako Ikee became a national hero in Japan when she earned a place on the country’s Olympic swimming team two years after being diagnosed with leukaemia but the 20-year-old has…
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Taiwan to send China Airlines pilots into quarantine in bid to stop Covid-19 outbreak
Taiwan will quarantine all pilots for its largest carrier China Airlines for 14 days as it tries to stop an outbreak of Covid-19, the health minister said on Monday, impacting…
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India’s coronavirus patients face desperate journeys to find oxygen supplies and hospital beds
When Neelam Mehta took her 82-year-old mother to the doctor in New Delhi last week, her coronavirus symptoms were mild but her oxygen saturation had dropped below healthy levels.The doctor…
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Australia politics live: federal court hears challenge to India travel ban; jury fails to reach verdict in Jack de Belin rape trial
Commonwealth defends flight ban in court; Morrison government promises $4bn in infrastructure spending during pre-budget publicity blitz; NSW Covid ‘missing link’ eludes authorities. Follow the latest updates Foreign minister Marise…