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Covid live: Netherlands expected to drop Omicron measures; Russia sets cases record for fifth consecutive day
7pm Dutch announcement expected to ease curbs despite high national caseload; New cases in Russia top 67,000 for first time Boris Johnson faces fresh outrage over lockdown birthday party A…
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Australian Labor ‘will always be better’ than Coalition on health, Anthony Albanese says
Opposition leader’s comments are a sign Labor will outbid Morrison government on health funding in lead-up to election Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Follow our…
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A third of mainland Chinese employees find their work hours ‘distressing’, study by insurance giant AXA shows
Almost a third of workers in mainland China find the hours they work “distressing”, according to a global study of mental health and wellbeing by insurance giant AXA.At 31 per…
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Feeble oversight of UK’s Covid loan schemes was a gift to fraudsters
Analysis: Even the Treasury showed ‘little interest’ in who got handouts; now more than £4bn is missing When it was announced in the first days of the coronavirus pandemic in…
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China’s Covid-19 cases at two-month low as it braces for Lunar New Year and Winter Olympics
China on Tuesday announced its lowest combined total of local and imported symptomatic Covid-19 infections in eight weeks.The National Health Commission reported 18 local symptomatic infections and 27 imported symptomatic…
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UN data reveals ‘nearly insurmountable’ scale of lost schooling due to Covid
Up to 70% of 10-year-olds in low- and middle-income countries lack basic reading skills, with learning losses seen from US to Ethiopia The scale of the number of children who…
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Nation records 76 Covid deaths as Albanese reveals Labor election priorities – as it happened
Labor leader outlines election priorities; nation records 76 Covid deaths; Peter Dutton warns against Russia invasion of Ukraine; giant ram survives 4.7 magnitude earthquake in WA. This blog is now…
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Home births in England may be denied if midwives without Covid jab lose jobs
Women could also be unable to give birth at their local hospital as understaffed maternity units face loss of up to 2,000 midwives Hospital bosses fear that pregnant women could…
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Neil Young demands Spotify remove his music over Joe Rogan vaccine misinformation
‘They can have Rogan or Young. Not both,’ writes musician in an open letter to his management that has since been taken down from his website Neil Young has demanded…