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Vietnam’s tight lid on the coronavirus leaves many citizens desperate to return, with illegal border crossings on the rise
Nguyen Huu Khanh hasn’t seen his family since he moved to Madrid in 2017 to study Spanish – and he also misses pho with tender beef and the many other…
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Hong Kong fourth wave: slight coronavirus rebound as 45 new cases reported; pandemic adviser praises Sinovac vaccine’s 78 per cent protection rate
Hong Kong reported a slight Covid-19 rebound on Friday with 45 new cases, as a leading government pandemic adviser said the Sinovac Biotech coronavirus vaccine acquired by the city had…
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Singapore PM gets his first coronavirus vaccine dose; Indonesia declares Sinovac shot halal
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong received his first shot of a vaccine against Covid-19 on Friday, he said in a Facebook post.A video showed the 68-year-old being injected in…
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Coronavirus: Chinese urged not to make ‘unnecessary’ trips home for Lunar New Year
Chinese authorities are urging residents not to make “unnecessary” trips to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year holiday, as the country grapples with fresh coronavirus outbreaks.Many local governments have…
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Brisbane’s Covid lockdown: everything you need to know
Here’s what you can and can’t do when Brisbane’s snap, three-day lockdown begins at 6pm on Friday Brisbane and regional Queensland case locations Sydney and regional NSW case locations Melbourne…
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As coronavirus resurges in Thailand, tourism businesses go on life support
Helping to push a stone slab with a carving of a Hindu deity into the earth, Kampon Tansacha said he faced a stark choice in deciding what to do with…
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Coronavirus: how will the vaccine advances of 2020 alter the pandemic path in 2021?
This is the latest story in our series on the Covid-19 pandemic, a year after the first cases were reported in the mainland Chinese city of Wuhan. It explores how…
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In the coronavirus war, the odds are in favour of allowing businesses to carry on
In times BC (that is, before Covid-19), it took about three weeks before one was able to automatically write that year’s date on a cheque, rather than last year’s. Cheques…
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Coronavirus: a Sinovac Biotech vaccine is seen as 78 per cent effective in Brazil
A vaccine made by Sinovac Biotech has been found to be 78 per cent effective against Covid-19 in late-stage trials in Brazil, making it the second Chinese vaccine that has…
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Coronavirus: after the outbreak, asymptomatic cases lurked in Wuhan, study finds
An estimated 168,000 people were infected by the coronavirus during the epidemic in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, with at least two-thirds of the infections asymptomatic, according to a…