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Marriage went against my feminist principles – but the pandemic changed everything | Candice Brathwaite
My experiences during lockdown taught me about the precariousness of life, and turned an old conviction on its head I wasn’t like most brides. Unlike my school friends, who adored…
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Friends lose £6,000 after Ibiza villa owner ‘disappears’
Group forced to cancel because of Covid but got only deposit and service fee back from booking site Vrbo A group of friends who lost more than £6,000 after the…
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Hong Kong housing minister says 3,000 isolation units ready to go as city faces a second day of more than 10,000 coronavirus cases
About 3,000 isolation units converted from one of three public housing blocks are now ready for patients with mild coronavirus symptoms, according to Hong Kong’s housing minister, with the city…
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Vallance and Whitty to step out of spotlight as Covid restrictions end in England
Chief scientific adviser and England’s chief medical officer will focus on health inequalities and emerging technologies Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The government’s two most senior…
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PowerPoint slides and exponential curves: Vallance and Whitty’s best bits
‘Living with Covid’ plan means government’s chief scientific adviser and chief medical officer will step back Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief scientific adviser, and Sir Chris Whitty, England’s chief…
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Australia records 35 Covid-related deaths as WA reports highest cases since pandemic began
Victoria reports 15 deaths while NSW’s slow decline in hospitalisations at odds with best case predictions Follow the Australia live news blog Get our free news app; get our morning…
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From Hong Kong to Malaysia and India, how online learning failed special needs students during the Covid-19 pandemic
In India, a child with ADHD screams at the computer in front of him, frustrated to the point of seizure. In Malaysia, a child with autism stares blankly at the…
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The real problem with Hong Kong’s Covid-19 strategy? Insufficient alignment with mainland China’s model
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Coronavirus: residents of Hong Kong’s subdivided flats forced to sleep on rooftops or streets after catching Covid-19
When a Hong Kong construction worker recently tested positive for Covid-19 along with his wife, they were faced with a predicament: how to isolate at home when they shared a…
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‘Dynamic living with Covid’ is the policy Hong Kong should be pursuing
Whether it is possible to eradicate Covid-19 is, for now, a hypothetical question. While we should not dismiss the possibility in the years ahead, an international expert review of the…