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The vaccine is here! We’re saved! Or are we? | First Dog on the Moon
Perhaps it depends on who we mean by ‘we’? Who should get the vaccine first?! Or at all?! Who is on THE LIST? Sign up here to get an email…
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US executes Brandon Bernard, first of five on death row before Donald Trump leaves office
The Trump administration on Thursday carried out its ninth federal execution of the year and the first during a presidential lame-duck period in 130 years, putting to death a Texas…
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Coronavirus live news: American FDA panel approves Pfizer vaccine as Biden advisor warns ‘no Christmas parties’
Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine approved by US panel; Israel abandons Covid-19 curfew plan ahead of Hanukkah; London has highest Covid-19 case rate in England Giuliani leaves hospital after receiving same drug…
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Australia live news: Scott Morrison says quarantine rules to be tightened for airline crews after national cabinet
Queensland border opens to New Zealand and UQ Covid vaccine trial abandoned. Follow latest updates Follow our global coronavirus live blog Full Australian Covid stats; restrictions state by state Download…
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Hong Kong fourth wave: free Covid-19 jabs for all residents as city secures 15 million vaccine doses from Sinovac, Pfizer, with first batch arriving in January
Hong Kong has secured 15 million shots of Covid-19 vaccines manufactured in China and Europe, with the first million expected to be available next month for high-risk groups under a…
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Hong Kong fourth wave: health expert warns against Richland Gardens lockdown, as 86 new Covid-19 cases confirmed
Environmental tests of various parts of a Covid-19-hit Hong Kong housing estate, including toilet exhaust fans, have come back positive for coronavirus, health officials revealed on Friday, as the city…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong Airlines to cut 250 flight attendants in stricken carrier’s latest round of redundancies
Hong Kong Airlines will cut 250 flight attendants in the latest round of coronavirus-related redundancies to hit the carrier and the local aviation sector.As a member of the cash-strapped Chinese…
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World carbon dioxide emissions fell record 7 per cent in 2020 because of Covid-19 lockdowns
Carbon emissions fell a record seven per cent in 2020 as countries imposed lockdowns and restrictions on movement during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Global Carbon Project said Friday in its…
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‘We’ve Marie Kondo’d the birth of Christ’: minimalist nativity scenes perplex the internet
Oddball reimaginings of the story of the birth of Jesus Christ include fruit, poker chips and cacti A couple of pulled apart liquorice allsorts; laboratory sample tubes; several wooden blocks…
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Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine approved by panel clearing way for FDA authorization for emergency use – as it happened
FDA’s expected approval will allow millions of doses to be shipped 3,124 deaths sets new record two weeks after Thanksgiving holiday President Trump makes no public comment on death toll…