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Australian health officials cast doubt on claim new UK Covid strain more infectious
Minister Greg Hunt says Australia will not ban flights from UK because it has mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine Cases of a Covid-19 strain that has plunged the UK into chaos…
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Sydney Covid community transmission spreads outside northern beaches as cluster grows to 83
NSW government continues to refuse to make mask use compulsory as 15 new coronavirus cases reported NSW Covid hotspots Sydney Covid restrictions explained Australia border restrictions: new state and territory…
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SA apologises to travellers from Sydney wrongly instructed to quarantine
Travellers who arrived in Adelaide on Sunday night were given the wrong information by police South Australian authorities have moved to clarify rules for people arriving from Sydney as new…
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After the northern beaches outbreak, we must be ready to change Christmas plans at short notice | Catherine Bennett
NSW knows what happened in Victoria during the second wave. This should encourage people to wear masks, test and isolate Covid-19 is, by its very nature, unpredictable, and it can…
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Singapore’s love affair with property resumes amid coronavirus optimism
Singapore may be undergoing its worst recession since independence, with retrenchments and job losses at record levels, but property-obsessed Singaporeans are still queuing up to buy multimillion-dollar homes. While the…
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US Congress seals deal on US$900 billion stimulus package
US lawmakers reached a deal on Sunday for a nearly US$900 billion Covid-19 relief package for millions of Americans as the nation struggles against the world’s largest outbreak of the…
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China has been plagued, and shaped, by epidemics – it has also overcome them
What a year it has been! For the greater part of 2020, the whole world has been held hostage by a microscopic pathogen that’s not even considered a living thing.…
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Europe bans travel from the UK over new Covid strain: what we know so far
France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Bulgaria and the Netherlands have all said they will halt flights arriving from the UK Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage A…
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Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau to be vaccinated publicly ‘when his turn comes’
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will receive the Covid-19 vaccine in public once those in his age group are in line to be vaccinated, he said in an interview broadcast…
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EU ambassadors to meet on Monday to discuss new coronavirus strain in UK
EU ambassadors will hold a crisis meeting in Brussels on Monday on travel restrictions to the UK after the emergence of a new coronavirus strain there suspected to be very…