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Covid vaccine rally fuels market optimism of a faster global recovery
News of potentially effective vaccine helps persuade politicians to keep policies to prevent lay offs and bankruptcies The timing could hardly have been better. In the week that the daily…
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Covid jobs crisis could have lasting impact on young people’s pensions
New figures show only a few years out of the workforce can have a big effect on a retirement fund The rise in the youth unemployment rate caused by the…
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Pandemic drives ebook and audiobook sales by UK publishers to all-time high
Printed book sales plunge in first six months of 2020 on back of shop and school closures See all our coronavirus coverage Sales of digital books by British publishers are…
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‘It’s a nightmare’: woman faces £1,300 demand due to universal credit fraud
Scammers took advantage after the government suspended face-to-face interviews with claimants A Hampshire woman, whose identity was used by fraudsters to apply for a £1,300 universal credit advance, has been…
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Western Australia opens hard border as Victoria records 15th day of zero coronavirus cases
NSW, South Australia and Queensland all report Covid-19 cases of people in quarantine Follow today’s live blog Pepper spray and arrests as riot squad breaks up Sydney party Hundreds of…
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Hong Kong tycoon and International Chamber of Commerce adviser calls on G20 to cooperate to save SMEs amid pandemic
The International Chamber of Commerce, to which prominent Hong Kong businessman Victor Fung Kwok-king is a top adviser, has urged the Group of 20 to take urgent action to avert…
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China has zeroed in on frozen food imports as it tries to keep a lid on Covid-19
China is zeroing in on potential Covid-19 transmission from frozen food after cases were linked to contaminated packaging in recent months, but the World Health Organization and public health experts…
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Russia, China in lead as Philippines seeks deals for Covid-19 vaccines
As the Philippines battles a coronavirus pandemic that has cost it nearly 8,000 lives out of more than 400,000 cases reported, it is banking on several of the Covid-19 vaccines…
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US sets new coronavirus record, as Biden adviser says no plans for nationwide lockdown
President-elect Joe Biden’s top coronavirus adviser said on Friday there were no plans for a wholesale nationwide lockdown to curb the surging pandemic, as the US set a single-day record…
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Not Covid-safe: pepper spray and arrests as riot squad breaks up Sydney party
Two police officers were injured and three people arrested at Surry Hills party that broke NSW coronavirus restrictions Two police officers have been hurt and three people arrested after a…