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Coronavirus: Thailand to allow vaccinated tourists to enter Phuket without quarantine
Thai authorities agreed on Friday to allow foreigners inoculated against the coronavirus to travel to its biggest holiday island without undergoing quarantine, and announced a new order for five million…
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Coronavirus: rules for Hong Kong schools eased to allow two-thirds of pupils back on site after Easter; city logs 11 new cases
Covid-19 restrictions on in-person classes would be further eased to allow as many as two-thirds of pupils to return to schools after Easter, the Hong Kong government said on Friday,…
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Coronavirus live news: EU demands ‘fair share’ of Covid jabs, US doubles vaccine target
Biden pledges 200m jabs in his first 100 days; Brazil records more than 100,000 new daily cases; Mexico death toll passes 100,000 Biden pledges 200m vaccine shots in 100 days…
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New Covid case in Queensland could have been infectious in community for several days
Queensland has reintroduced some restrictions in response to new locally acquired coronavirus case in Brisbane Queensland authorities say a young Brisbane man appears to have acquired Covid-19 in the local…
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Gibraltar looks to post-Covid era as vaccine drive nears completion
British overseas territory is positioning itself as real-time case study in relaxing restrictions Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage This month Gibraltar’s health minister snapped a photo…
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Could the coronavirus have come from a lab? The theory was too quickly ruled out, scientists say
Nikolai Petrovsky was scrolling through social media after a day on the ski slopes when reports describing a mysterious cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China, caught his eye. It…
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Welsh tourism sector can start to reopen from this weekend
Lifting of stay-local rule is for Welsh residents only as country stays shut to visitors from other parts of the UK Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage…
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Ursula von der Leyen backs authorisation mechanism for Covid vaccine exports – video
Ursula von der Leyen has said the EU is transparent and open, and welcomes other countries to be transparent with their exports. Speaking at a virtual summit, she said contracts…
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EU leaders back ‘global value chains’ instead of vaccine export bans
Refusal to support measure despite Ursula von der Leyen highlighting 21m doses sent to UK Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage EU leaders backed “global value chains”…
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Pint of milk protest: Charles Walker’s surreal Commons speech – video
‘I want to talk about milk,’ begins Charles Walker. ‘I am going to walk around London with a pint of milk on my person, because that pint will represent my…