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Coronavirus: Canto-pop star Aaron Kwok to hold fundraising concert to help city’s struggling dancers and film industry workers
Canto-pop star Aaron Kwok Fu-shing is to throw a charity concert online on Saturday to raise funds for dancers and film crew hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.The Cheer Up…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong school pupils to be kept a metre apart, with half-day classes
Hong Kong school pupils will have to stay about a metre apart from each other and will only attend classes for half a day should face-to-face lessons resume as expected…
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New Zealand, Australia discuss coronavirus ‘travel bubble’ to allow two-way movement
Australia and New Zealand are discussing the potential creation of a “travel bubble” between the two countries, officials said on Monday, even as Australia reported its highest number of coronavirus…
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Is air pollution making the coronavirus pandemic even more deadly?
In many respects, it makes perfect sense. Patients with severe Covid-19 are twice as likely to have had pre-existing respiratory diseases and three times as likely to have had cardiovascular…
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Green bonds gain popularity, a defensive bet as coronavirus pandemic weighs on markets, investment managers say
As banks and other publicly traded companies face pressure to demonstrate the measures they are taking to address climate change, green bonds are gaining popularity among issuers and investors in…
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100,000 dead Americans: Trump revises US coronavirus toll forecast
US President Donald Trump has sharply revised upwards his projected toll of the country’s coronavirus deaths, saying that fatalities could reach 100,000, even as he defied warnings from leading public…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong to relax rules on public gatherings
Hong Kong is to relax its rules on public gatherings after the coronavirus epidemic showed signs of abating in the city, the Post learned on Monday.Groups of up to eight…
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Coronavirus: Italy begins to emerge from nine-week lockdown, world’s longest
Stir-crazy Italians were free to stroll and visit relatives for the first time in nine weeks on Monday as Europe’s hardest-hit country eases back the world’s longest nationwide coronavirus lockdown.Four…
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Indonesian, Malaysian Tablighi Jamaat members left stranded by India’s coronavirus lockdown
Indonesia is trying to repatriate 727 of its citizens from India who attended a mass gathering organised by Muslim missionary group Tablighi Jamaat in New Delhi in March and ended…
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Coronavirus: Brazil’s Bolsonaro eggs on huge crowd of lockdown protesters, blames governors for ‘destroying jobs’
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has railed against the country’s lockdown in a speech to thousands of anti-confinement demonstrators as the number of confirmed Covid-19 infections passed 100,000, with more than…