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Coronavirus: Hong Kong doctors, patients groups push for better guidance on vaccine side effects as city’s leader says shots are safe
Hong Kong doctor and patient groups have piled pressure on the government to provide better guidance to vulnerable people on the side effects of coronavirus vaccines, even as the city’s…
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The Joe Biden blitz is coming
This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Christopher Cadelgo and Natasha Korecki on politico.com on March 9, 2021.US President Joe Biden spent…
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Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways in ‘survival mode’ after posting record loss of HK$21.6 billion for 2020 amid Covid-19 pandemic
Cathay Pacific Airways has warned that it is still in “survival” mode after suffering record losses in 2020, making cost-saving and vaccinating staff for Covid-19 its top priorities to get…
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Joe Biden won’t put his name on US$1,400 stimulus cheques, unlike Donald Trump
US President Joe Biden will not be attaching his signature to the US$1,400 relief cheques that are expected to be mailed soon – a break with his predecessor who last…
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Coronavirus frontline health care workers in Hong Kong get boost with ‘thank you’ postcard campaign
At the Wan Chai office of youth empowerment charity Kids4Kids, colourful postcards with uplifting messages and drawings are spread out on a table. “Thank you – you are a lifesaver…
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Australia news live: Dan Andrews moved to trauma ward; Qantas chief highlights risk of long-term border closure
Gladys Berejiklian will be receiving the AstraZeneca jab; Qantas chief Alan Joyce warns tourists and students could abandon Australia. Follow latest updates Follow our global coronavirus live blog 12.26am GMT…
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House will vote Wednesday morning on $1.9tn Covid relief bill – live
Steny Hoyer confirms House to take up bill at 9am ET Wednesday FBI releases video of suspect planting pipe bombs in DC on 5 January Outrage as Georgia Republicans advance…
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Coronavirus live news: Brazil sees record deaths; Japan may stage Olympics without overseas spectators
Greece to allow tourists with Covid vaccines, antibodies or negative tests; Palestinian ICUs at capacity Greece hopes to open to tourists from 14 May ‘A once-in-a-generation event’: lessons from a…
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Swingeing cuts on cards as councils in England face funding crisis, watchdog warns
At least 25 councils nearly bankrupt as Covid puts pressure on finances, says National Audit Office Residents face years more swingeing cuts to local services, from social care to libraries,…
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Covid has exposed dire position of England’s local councils
The pandemic has wrecked finances as well as revealing deeper roots of a funding crisis in local government The pandemic has a habit of bringing hidden social crises into the…