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Coronavirus state of emergency has the Japanese staying home, hoarding cash
As Japan prepares to extend its state of emergency beyond February 7, the country’s public is largely resigned to its fate. Most people say they are simply battening down the…
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Race to dig graves in Brazil’s ‘Gateway to Amazon’ as Covid-19 death rate soars
With more than 3,000 burials in January alone, the Amazon rainforest city of Manaus does not remember a deadlier month.Its cemetery is expanding at breakneck speed as bulldozers dig dozens…
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Hong Kong fourth wave: authorities order ‘ambush-style’ lockdown for four North Point buildings after Covid-19 outbreak
Hong Kong authorities ordered another “ambush-style” lockdown on Thursday evening, confining residents of four old tenement buildings in North Point district to their homes without advance warning for mandatory Covid-19…
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‘Foundations’ of China’s economic rebound yet to be ‘consolidated’ as fiscal revenue fell in 2020
China’s fiscal revenue fell 3.9 per cent in 2020 from a year earlier, while expenditure rose 2.8 per cent, the finance ministry said on Thursday, underscoring the difficulties in government…
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Coronavirus: Cambodian scientists find close match for pathogen in samples collected in 2010
With a World Health Organization investigation into the origins of the coronavirus which causes the Covid-19 disease under way in China, a laboratory in Cambodia has discovered close relatives of…
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Urgent call for blood donors from Hong Kong’s black community and people of African descent for sickle cell patient with rare blood group
Amy Ansaba is well aware of the heartache and stress caused when families are separated by Covid-19. She is based in London, but her brother lives in Hong Kong, where…
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Japan’s out-of-touch leaders fail to engage young people in coronavirus response
The world’s most rapidly ageing society has long struggled to talk to its youth. That’s a disconnect that’s turning deadly in the pandemic.The difficulty in persuading young adults to upend…
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Coronavirus: Vietnam outbreak fears grow as 82 cases reported; ‘kill switch’ rumours dog Philippines’ vaccine roll-out
Vietnam’s recorded 82 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday, its first community transmission of the virus in 55 days, as fears grow of a wider outbreak, the Ministry of Health…
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FedEx Express balks at Hong Kong’s new coronavirus quarantine measures, will temporarily relocate aircrew and families to San Francisco
FedEx Express is planning a hasty, temporary relocation of its Hong Kong-based pilots and their families from the world’s busiest air cargo hub to San Francisco, making it the first…
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How quarantine rules work and what UK government is planning
Analysis: Arrivals from high-risk countries will have to pay to isolate in a hotel under Boris Johnson’s proposals Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage With new hotel…