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Nobody is more irritating when you are ill than your own family | Zoe Williams
My family treated my positive Covid test as exciting news, like they had been watching EastEnders for 17 years and finally something had happened What I never noticed before I…
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Digested week: I can see the light at the end of my lockdown tunnel | Lucy Mangan
Though just as you usher your own children off to school, manbaby Piers Morgan fills the void Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage They’ve … wait, just…
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WHO says no reason not to use AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine
A World Health Organization expert advisory committee is currently looking at AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine after some countries paused distribution of it, but there is no reason not to use it,…
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Will vaccines protect from ‘long-haul Covid’? We need answers | Fiona Lowenstein
A recent study found that 30% of Covid patients surveyed still had persistent symptoms nine months later Since the earliest days of the pandemic, members of disability and chronic illness…
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Greece will open to tourists in mid-May thanks to rapid coronavirus vaccination roll-out, officials say
Greece hopes to reopen for tourists in mid-May, thanks to an acceleration of its coronavirus vaccination programme which will provide a “wall of immunity” for residents, its government says.The southern…
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Covid-19 infections surge to 60 in Hong Kong as gym cluster grows, while banks and law firms also hit
Hong Kong confirmed 60 new coronavirus infections on Friday, with the surge coming mostly from a rapidly ballooning outbreak at a gym in a neighbourhood popular with expatriates that health…
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Coronavirus: Thai PM Prayuth delays taking AstraZeneca vaccine over blood clot fears
Thailand has delayed its roll-out of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, a health official said Friday, after several European nations suspended their programmes over blood clot fears.The kingdom was scheduled to…
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Coronavirus: Joe Biden offers US hope for July 4, but ‘fight’ not over
US President Joe Biden on Thursday offered his coronavirus-weary nation a tantalising glimpse of an almost normal July 4, outlining in a speech how the United States can defeat the…
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As coronavirus cluster linked to Hong Kong gym spreads, are city’s fitness centres safe enough to remain open?
Should gyms be allowed to stay open now that Hong Kong health authorities are battling a super-spreading coronavirus cluster connected to a fitness centre? That was the question swirling around…
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Joe Biden condemns ‘vicious’ attacks on Asian-Americans
US President Joe Biden on Thursday condemned what he called “vicious hate crimes” committed against Asian Americans since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, calling such acts “un-American” and demanding…