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Coronavirus: new travel restrictions in Australia as outbreak hits Sydney
After Australians had largely been able to travel freely within the country, a coronavirus outbreak in one part of Sydney has brought back some border restrictions and raised fears travel…
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US surpasses 17m coronavirus cases just a day after setting record death toll – as it happened
Biden picks Deb Haaland for interior secretary – report Congress closes in on $900bn Covid aid bill as Friday deadline looms FDA says extra doses of vaccine contained in Pfizer…
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Hong Kong fourth wave: new round of coronavirus relief funding not enough, but ‘better than nothing’, business owners say
Members of Hong Kong industries battered by the abrupt tightening of social-distancing restrictions earlier this month have said the government’s latest round of financial aid is not enough to rescue…
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Coronavirus: how Singapore went from hero to zero, and back to hero again
Since the coronavirus pandemic swept the globe this year, cities from Asia to the United States and Europe have become stuck in a cycle.Cases rise, so they lock down. Cases…
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Coronavirus: FDA panel recommends use of Moderna vaccine in US
A panel of outside advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday endorsed emergency use of Moderna Inc’s coronavirus vaccine, as the United States passed another grim milestone…
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Recommendation paves way for FDA authorization of Moderna Covid vaccine in US
Advisory committee recommends authorizing second vaccine More than 300,000 Americans have died amid ‘third wave’ An advisory committee for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended the agency…
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Coronavirus: how France’s Emmanuel Macron let social distancing slip
Once an early adopter of the coronavirus-proof “namaste” greeting, French President Emmanuel Macron was showing signs of letting his guard down almost a year into the pandemic.On Monday, three days…
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States and territories reinstate Covid border restrictions for NSW, throwing Christmas plans into disarray
NSW arrivals into Western Australia and people travelling from Sydney’s northern beaches to Victoria, Queensland, NT and Tasmania will have to quarantine for 14 days after Covid cluster rises to…
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US surpasses 17m coronavirus cases as vaccines are distributed
US confirmed 247,403 new cases on Wednesday and 3,656 Americans died of the coronavirus in a single day The United States on Thursday surpassed a total of 17m coronavirus cases,…
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Putin’s aggressive policies show sign of a worried regime
Analysis: amid constitutional changes and Navalny poisoning, Russian president strives to maintain power For a man who has spent much of 2020 in social isolation, it has been a busy…