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Will Malaysia dropping AstraZeneca from main inoculation drive fuel vaccine hesitancy?
Malaysia’s decision to exclude the AstraZeneca vaccine from its main Covid-19 inoculation drive is the latest vote of no-confidence in the jab, and complicates an already sluggish roll-out of vaccines…
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This French firm’s more variant-proof coronavirus vaccine could help in long-term fight against Covid-19
As the battle with Covid-19 rages around the world, a small French biotech has a possible solution for the long-term war against the virus and the rapidly spreading mutations.The company,…
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Covid has forced a neoliberal retreat. But state intervention isn’t always progressive | Laurie Macfarlane
We may be seeing the rise of a new authoritarian capitalism shielded from democratic scrutiny Thirteen years after the financial crisis put the global economy on life support, neoliberal capitalism…
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North Korea eyes new factory zone near Chinese border to save virus-hit economy
North Korea on Thursday said it would build an “export processing zone” near the border with China, in an apparent bid to recover trade with its ally following a year-long…
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Coronavirus: baffled restaurants opt out of Hong Kong ‘vaccine bubble’ on new system’s launch day
Many restaurants have chosen not to join Hong Kong’s new “vaccine bubble” to avoid burdening staff and customers, amid confusion over the rules and the post-launch release of official documents…
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Coronavirus: Singapore sees highest local cases in months; Philippines extends lockdown
Singapore on Thursday recorded 16 new locally-transmitted coronavirus cases, the first double-digit daily jump in months.The health ministry said seven of these infections were family members of an earlier case…
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Coronavirus: genome analysis ‘rules out’ Hong Kong domestic worker getting variant from family at quarantine hotel
A Hong Kong domestic worker, the city’s third locally detected Covid-19 variant case, did not contract the virus from neighbouring guests in her quarantine hotel as initially suspected, a researcher…
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‘It was weird’: scenes from Joe Biden’s speech
This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Sarah Ferris and Burgess Everett on politico.com on April 28, 2021.US President Joe Biden’s first joint…
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Vaccination delays for top priority groups in disability sector spark investigation
They were meant to be among the first Australians to be vaccinated, but more than 25,000 disability accommodation residents are still waiting Australia’s disability royal commission will investigate the Covid…
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Australia news live: Melbourne announces new Covid quarantine facility; Frydenberg talks up budget plans
Victoria says 500-bed $15m facility to be built in Mickleham; Australia’s medicine regulator expected to determine whether death of two men in NSW linked to coronavirus jab. Follow the day’s…