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CDC coding error led to overcount of 72,000 Covid deaths
Calls for agency to communicate clearly and transparently after error, corrected last week, inadvertently added deaths to tracker A quiet change to how the US Centers for Disease Control and…
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Covid-19 in China: ‘Don’t forget people must still live and earn as we fight Omicron,’ says Shanghai expert
The daily lives and businesses of Shanghai residents should not be neglected by authorities as they battle a surge in Omicron cases in China’s bustling east coast metropolis, prominent epidemiologist…
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Why can’t some scientists just admit they were wrong about Covid? | Devi Sridhar
Our understanding of the virus has changed so much. Yet some ‘experts’ doggedly cling to theories they proposed two years ago Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health…
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Two years on, what have we learned about lockdowns? – podcast
Over the past two years, countries around the world have shut down their societies in last-ditch efforts to contain the pandemic. Some, like China, have enforced strict lockdowns as part…
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Coronavirus Hong Kong: no one size fits all approach to combating pandemic, city leader says, as Singapore reveals broad easing of restrictions
Hong Kong will chart its own path out of the coronavirus pandemic, its leader has said, emphasising no “one size fits all” approach exists as regional rival Singapore announced a…
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Covid outbreaks in Samoa and Vanuatu chip away at Pacific islands’ virus-free status
Case numbers in the two Pacific nations have exploded over past week following first cases of community transmission Read all our coronavirus coverage Covid outbreaks in Samoa and Vanuatu have…
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Australia news live updates: Nauru refugees to be resettled in New Zealand; Ash Barty speaks about retirement; 25 Covid deaths
PM calls resignation of Hillsong founding pastor ‘entirely appropriate’; Japanese encephalitis declared disease of national significance; Liberals select candidate for Bennelong; fifth arrest this week over climate crisis protest; Morrison…
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Singapore to shed outdoor mask mandate, remove travel curbs so it’s ‘almost like before Covid-19’
People in Singapore will no longer be required to wear masks outdoors and the city state will put in place its most significant easing of Covid-19 restrictions from next Tuesday,…
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Coronavirus: vaccine passports redundant as jab rates rise, Star Alliance chief says
Vaccine passports will probably become redundant as more people are inoculated against Covid-19, and efforts to create a common standard are stymied by differing entry requirements, the head of the…
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Matt Hancock failed to disclose messages with Owen Paterson over Covid contracts
Health department did not keep full records of meetings with healthcare firm Paterson lobbied for, NAO finds Matt Hancock, the former health secretary, failed to notify his officials about private…