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Australia coronavirus news live: Tighter restrictions in force for NYE as Sydney’s Croydon cluster causes concern and Victoria announces new cases
People urged to stay home as investigation continues into source of Croydon cluster in Sydney and cases in Melbourne. This blog is now closed Victoria mandates mask-wearing after Covid outbreak…
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UK pledges an extra £47m in aid as agencies warn of ‘catastrophic hunger’
Coronavirus, conflict and cuts to UN funding are increasing the risks of food insecurity and acute malnutrition in 2021 The government has promised £47m in extra emergency aid for 2021…
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The government has pitted England’s schools against health. It didn’t have to | James McAsh
Closing schools isn’t the only answer: with proper investment, teachers and pupils could be safe and supported As a teacher, I am used to doing the same thing over and…
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LBD out, kitchen disco in: NYE 2020’s pandemic party trend
This year, cocktail frocks and heels are out in favour of fancy pyjamas, velvet slippers and sparkly knits Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage In any normal…
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Coronavirus: US records deadliest day at end of grim 2020
The US logged its highest ever daily death toll from the coronavirus Wednesday as the world prepared to turn the page on a grim year defined by the pandemic, with…
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Hong Kong insurers HSBC Life, AXA, OneDegree roll out coverage for side effects of Covid-19 vaccines
Some of the city’s biggest insurance companies are offering coverage for the side effects of Covid-19 vaccines, as Hongkongers prepare to start receiving their jabs as early as January.French giant…
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Whatever kudos Gladys Berejiklian has won from handling the pandemic, it’s diminishing | Malcolm Farr
The NSW premier is aware she has been seen by critics as the wimp of the virus fighters. Still she flinches Gladys Berejiklian flinched from pandemic-fighting measures taken by other…
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Silver lining amid coronavirus pandemic: sick girl, four, at home for Christmas and New Year for the first time
Coronavirus has kept many loved ones apart this holiday season, but it has brought four-year-old Yu-yan closer to her family. Diagnosed with a rare condition at just two months old,…
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Coronavirus: Singapore identifies two people who may be infected with new strain; Tokyo cases soar
Two people in Singapore who came back from the UK have been preliminarily tested to have a new Covid-19 strain that is circulating there, the Ministry of Health said in…
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Fosun Pharma rushes logistics plan for possible BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine deployment from January
Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical is pulling out all the stops to build cold-storage facilities ahead of the possible deployment of BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine in China from as early as next month,…