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What are coronavirus risks from riding trains? A new Chinese study analyses passenger data
Is it safe to travel by train for hours during the Covid-19 pandemic? Will fellow passengers be infected if a traveller turns out to be a patient?There are no simple,…
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Coronavirus: South Korea arrests Shincheonji church leader for stalling virus containment efforts
The leader of a controversial religious group that was a hotbed of infection in the early stages of South Korea’s coronavirus outbreak was arrested on Saturday morning on suspicion of…
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Hong Kong third wave: Korean restaurant opening went ahead a day before dine-in dinner ban kicked in
The announcement earlier this week that the Hong Kong government was implementing stricter measures to slow down the third wave of coronavirus cases should not have come as a surprise.Nobody…
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Coronavirus: China’s stranded migrant workers desperate to return home as savings dry up
Zhu Bowen was excited about the possibility of landing an IT job when she travelled to Tokyo in December. Now, with the coronavirus pandemic having completely upended her life, the…
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Japanese tourists hope to say ‘Aloha’ again after Hawaii listed as safe destination
The first time Takako Tomura visited Hawaii, she was a high school student. It was love at first sight. Now a 40-year-old housewife, she says she has visited Hawaii at…
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US government set to pay US$2.1 billion to drug giants Sanofi and GSK in coronavirus vaccine deal
The US government will pay US$2.1 billion to Sanofi SA and GlaxoSmithKline Plc for Covid-19 vaccines to cover 50 million people and to underwrite the drug makers’ testing and manufacturing,…
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‘We have to change to survive’: Japanese bathhouses’ future in doubt amid plunge in customers
Craft beer, live music and lodgings featured in renovation plans that Takuya Shimbo had for an ageing Tokyo bathhouse, hoping to rescue a fading industry from extinction by reinventing the…
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Coronavirus live news: WHO reports record daily rise in global cases
The Prince of Wales gave a “morale boost” to health workers as he visited Caithness General Hospital in the north of Scotland. Staff at the hospital in Wick said they…
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House hearing finds US no closer to plan as coronavirus is ‘raging out of control’ – live
A federal appeals court has overturned Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death penalty sentence for helping carry out the 2013 attack, which killed three people and wounded more than 260…
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Central banks’ coronavirus bailouts are distorting the market, but do they even realise it?
When the US Federal Reserve announced on last Wednesday that it was “committed to using its full range of tools to support the US economy in this challenging time”, the…