Coronavirus Latest News
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NSW on a knife-edge: experts urge new restrictions to avoid uncontrollable spread of Covid-19
New South Wales should introduce new restrictions in order to avoid uncontrollable spread of Covid-19, experts have said, after the premier, Gladys Berejiklian, reiterated the state was on a “knife-edge”…
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The ‘dividendkeeper’ shuffle: how jobkeeper payments are flowing to shareholders
The use by companies of jobkeeper money to subsidise payouts to their shareholders exposes flaws in the design of the Morrison government’s flagship coronavirus economic support package. So far, there’s…
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Campsites and holiday cottage bookings for summer 2021 soar
Holiday cottages and camping pitches are already getting snapped up for summer 2021 as ongoing uncertainty around foreign holidays and lack of availability this summer prompts British holidaymakers to book…
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Unions demand US government take charge over ‘inexcusable’ PPE shortage
A large coalition of labor unions and climate action groups have petitioned the US health and homeland security departments to take over the manufacture and distribution of personal protective equipment…
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Coronavirus in Europe: French and Dutch on alert over rise in cases
New daily coronavirus infections in the Netherlands are back to roughly half their level at the peak of the pandemic, while France’s prime minister has said it is crucial for…
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Russia approves Sputnik V Covid vaccine despite testing safety concerns
Russia has approved a controversial Covid-19 vaccine for widespread use after less than two months of human testing, including a dose administered to one of Vladimir Putin’s daughters. The announcement…
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Russia’s coronavirus vaccine: will it work, and is it safe?
The race to find a vaccine against Covid-19 has not always been particularly edifying, driven at times by so-called “vaccine nationalism”, much cautioned against by the World Health Organization, which…
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WHO will start its investigation into coronavirus origins in Wuhan but says case zero may be elsewhere
World Health Organisation research into the origins of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 will start in Wuhan, but the WHO stressed that the central Chinese city might not be the…
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Trump says China failing to meet trade deal commitments, piling pressure on Beijing ahead of review
US President Donald Trump has said China is failing to meet commitments to buy more American goods under the phase one trade deal, a sign of increasing pressure on Beijing…
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Coronavirus latest: New Zealand records new community cases after 102 days; Philippines accepts Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine offer
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Tuesday said authorities had confirmed four cases of the coronavirus in an Auckland household from an unknown source, the first reported cases of…