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‘Enter through the back door’: secret church services in Mexico and Brazil defy Covid-19 rules
The invitations arrive via text message or social media. “They ask you for a kind of password to let you in,” said Jesús Preciado, whose father has attended the secretive…
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Singapore retailers step up safety measures with glass partitions, sanitiser and gloves ahead of Friday reopening
Retailers in Singapore are taking precautionary measures up a notch as they prepare to welcome customers into their stores for the first time in more than two months on Friday.Some are…
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New Zealand orders military to watch over borders after quarantine bungle allowed coronavirus back in
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ordered the military to oversee the country’s borders Wednesday after a quarantine bungle that allowed Covid-19 back into the country.A 24-day run with no…
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Coronavirus: Chinese firm says its vaccine candidate passes phase two clinical trials
A potential Chinese Covid-19 vaccine, which has completed phase one and phase two human trials, is generally safe and can generate immune response in test subjects, the vaccine’s developer, China…
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Hong Kong protests and coronavirus see Prada, Tissot make way for cheap phone store on world’s most expensive shopping street
For years it was the world’s most expensive shopping street, overshadowing anything Paris or London had to offer, its pavements brimming with shoppers hunting for Prada bags, Chanel perfumes and…
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‘Snowden refugees’ call for family reunification in Canada amid coronavirus crisis
From his home in Hong Kong, Supun Thilina Kellapatha has been anxiously following the news coming out of the Canadian city of Montreal. In its province of Quebec alone, there…
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With Trump’s re-election hopes on the line, Florida’s DeSantis defies critics as coronavirus spreads
This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Marc Caputo on politico.com on June 16, 2020Florida Governor Ron DeSantis proudly welcomed the Republican…
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Covid-19 outbreaks in New Zealand and China highlight stark choices
Beijing and New Zealand had both declared themselves Covid-19-free by mid-June, life returning to an enviable normality of schools and shops, work and human contact. It didn’t last long. Last…
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12 per cent of Americans may not need coronavirus vaccine because of previous exposure, US officials say
A Covid-19 vaccine that the Trump administration hopes will be available by January may not be equally effective for everyone, US officials said on Tuesday.But, they added, they expect as…
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Coronavirus exposes the inequality in America, and may exacerbate it
Well before Covid-19 struck, there was another rampant epidemic in the United States, killing more Americans in 2018 than the coronavirus so far. What we call “deaths of despair” –…