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Coronavirus and summer travel: how to stay safe on holiday
With infection rates rising again in the UK, should you test before you fly – and do you need a mask? Whether heading for a scorching Mallorca beach or dancing…
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UK Covid levels rise 30% in a week to estimated 2.3m cases
Number of infections in week ending 25 June highest since late April, with experts expecting fresh wave later in year Covid infection levels in the UK have risen by more…
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Where’s the herd immunity? Our research shows why Covid is still wreaking havoc | Danny Altmann
‘Living with the virus’ is proving much harder than the early vaccine success suggested: this fight is far from over Danny Altmann is a professor of immunology at Imperial College…
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Tory donors behind Betfred pay themselves and family £50m dividend
Rise in online gambling in pandemic offset temporary closure of firm’s 1,470 high street bookmakers The billionaire Conservative party donors behind the gambling firm Betfred paid themselves and their family…
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Nation records 33 Covid deaths as Victoria reports fifth monkeypox case – as it happened
Mark Butler urges Australians to get boosters as new subvariant circulates; nation records 33 Covid deaths. This blog is now closed Western Australia’s EPA urges 50-year extension of country’s most…
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US travel chaos unlikely to improve as Fourth of July looms, experts say
Over the Memorial Day and Juneteenth holiday weekends more than 3,000 flights were canceled and over 19,000 were delayed As Fourth of July travel chaos looms, experts are warning that…
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‘Back in earnest’: Canary Wharf’s post-Covid comeback almost in full swing
A ghost town during lockdowns, the London financial centre has seen a return of people visiting for work and play Lino Caboso has been serving jerk chicken and rum punch…
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North Korea blames Covid-laden balloons sent from South for virus outbreak
Experts sceptical of claim, as state media urge citizens to watch out for ‘alien things coming by wind’ North Korea has blamed its Covid-19 outbreak on balloons sent over its…
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Australia’s 10,000 deaths and the paradox of ‘Covid normal’
The country has fared better than others – but those on the frontline are still wrestling with the agony of the coronavirus pandemic Not just a number: families of five…
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Ten thousand Covid deaths and counting … the road to Australia’s grim milestone
From the first coronavirus case reported in the country in January 2020 to the toll’s steep upwards trend today: this is how we got here Not just a number: families…