Coronavirus Latest News
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Workers crammed into windowless containers at Hong Kong’s busiest port sleep in dorms that are ‘hotbeds’ for Covid-19 during third wave
With cargo ships unloading around the clock, workers at Hong Kong’s busiest port are forced to grab what little sleep they can during long shifts in makeshift dormitories crafted from…
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Coronavirus clusters erupt at US universities as semester begins
From the dorms at North Carolina to the halls of Notre Dame, officials at universities around the US scrambled on Monday to deal with new Covid-19 clusters at the start…
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Coronavirus Australia latest update: Victoria hotel quarantine faces further scrutiny as NSW schools on alert
There is a little more on the threatened bus driver strike I mentioned earlier – via AAP: The Rail, Tram and Bus Union NSW has written to the Premier Gladys…
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Coronavirus live news: Lebanon to shut down to stop spread; over 16,000 infections in Spain in three days
Brazil reported 19,373 new cases of coronavirus and a further 684 deaths in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Monday. Brazil has now registered 3,359,570 cases of…
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North Carolina’s flagship university moves online after 130 Covid-19 cases
North Carolina’s flagship university canceled in-person classes for undergraduates just a week into the fall semester on Monday as the school and other campuses around the US scrambled to deal…
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Dido Harding to run agency replacing Public Health England
Dido Harding, a Conservative peer who heads up England’s widely criticised test-and-trace system, has been chosen to run a new institute to replace Public Health England, after the controversial decision…
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Taylor Swift calls Donald Trump a blatant cheat for refusing US Postal Service funding it needs to handle mail-in votes
US pop star Taylor Swift has called out President Donald Trump for his actions related to the postal service in a tweet that urged her nearly 87 million Twitter followers…
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Global report: alarm over Covid case rates in 19 European countries
Nineteen European countries have crossed a key threshold of new coronavirus infections, with Spain’s figures particularly worrying. According to data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the…
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UK coronavirus: university admissions cap to be lifted in England – as it happened
Right, that’s it from me. We’ll be winding this blog down shortly but do continue to follow all breaking coronavirus news on our global live blog here. Have a good…
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Time is of the essence when Covid enters aged care but the government response has been sluggish
The furious debate that has broken out in the past week about whether or not the federal government had a plan for Covid-19 outbreaks in aged care is missing the…