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New Zealand: another Covid case linked to Pullman Hotel
Announcement means five people with links to Auckland isolation facility have tested positive Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage A fourth person who was released from managed…
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Coronavirus: WHO chief urges ‘massive scale-up’ in vaccine production
The World Health Organization chief on Friday called on vaccine makers to share technologies to help dramatically boost production, warning that without more access to the jabs, progress against the…
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Martin Rowson on plans to detain some arrivals to the UK in quarantine hotels – cartoon
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‘All the markers of youth are being extended’: higher education, Covid and the debt burden
With graduate employment at a low ebb and some degrees costing more, young people are starting their adult lives with onerous debt Read how the pandemic is shaping a generation…
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How deadly diseases change personal as well as national histories | Jim Waterson
My grandfather lost his life to TB, but his brother would go on to be part of the scientific team that coined the term ‘coronavirus’ When my grandfather’s lungs finally…
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Oxford Covid vaccine almost as effective against Kent variant, trials suggest
Scientists say it offers only slightly lower protection compared with original Covid Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine is just as effective at…
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Senate passes budget plan to allow Biden’s $1.9tn Covid relief package without Republicans – live
Kamala Harris uses casting vote to pass resolution Pelosi says House will pass coronavirus relief by end of the month US records more than 5,000 Covid deaths in single day…
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UK Covid live: Oxford jab ‘protects against UK variant’; no plans for vaccine passports, says No 10
Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine as effective against UK variant as original virus, research suggests; no plans for vaccine passports Oxford Covid vaccine just as effective against Kent variant, trials suggest All over-50s…
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Birmingham Indian restaurant to offer in-car lockdown meals
Varanasi will serve three-course meals styled on business class aeroplane food direct to customers’ cars Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage With restaurants facing a Valentine’s Day…
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English schools to get extra £10m to open sports facilities after hours
Move taken in response to rising concern over lack of provision for young people during lockdown Schools in England are to receive extra funding to open their sports facilities outside…