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Life after lockdown: how do we best recover from the pandemic?
Two years of Covid have wreaked havoc with the nation’s mental health. What can be learned from the survivors of other traumas and is there a way of thinking ourselves…
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Hong Kong budget: NGO calls for financial assistance for those left jobless, underemployed by strict social-distancing rules
Hongkongers left jobless or underemployed by the recent reimposition of strict social-distancing rules should be singled out for special financial assistance in the upcoming government budget, an advocacy group has…
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Coronavirus vaccination: will extending jabs to younger Hong Kong children lead city out of tough, zero-Covid policy? Experts urge move, but parents fear long-term effects
Vaccinating children against the coronavirus will enable Hong Kong to exit its tough zero-Covid policy, medical experts have said, even as parents raised concerns about giving the German-made BioNTech jab…
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Novak Djokovic live news updates: world No 1 issues statement saying he ‘respects’ ruling upholding visa cancellation, will leave Australia
Djokovic issues statement after federal court dismisses visa cancellation appeal; Victoria records 13 Covid-19 deaths and 28,128 new cases; NSW records 20 deaths and 34,660 new cases; Queensland records three…
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In two pandemic years, how political divisions and policy missteps have failed the world
If our fate during the Covid-19 pandemic had rested in the hands of scientists and the medical profession, we would have been in good hands. Almost certainly the pandemic would…
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Covid news live: Novak Djokovic to be deported after Australian court backs visa cancellation
Latest updates: Serbian tennis player says he respects court’s decision; Boris Johnson’s future in the balance after week of party revelations Novak Djokovic to be deported from Australia after losing…
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This is a Boris Johnson scandal that even the great trickster can’t blag his way out of | Andrew Rawnsley
Tories are paying a deserved price for giving the keys to Number 10 to a man they knew was unfit to be prime minister The defenestration of a prime minister…
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Being ill is no fun, especially if you don’t even have Covid | Eva Wiseman
Not catching Covid when the rest of the family have all got it can give you a bad case of Fomo In December my daughter brought Covid home from school…
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Omicron: Fears of new Hong Kong cluster emerge as recent returnee tests positive for Covid-19 after leaving quarantine; city uncovers new untraceable case
Fears of a new cluster in Hong Kong’s ongoing Omicron outbreak emerged on Sunday as health authorities found that a woman who recently returned to the city from Pakistan tested…
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How antivirals provide hope to vulnerable Covid patients
Pfizer says its recently approved Paxlovid drug has almost 90% success in preventing severe illness if taken soon after infection The recent decision by regulators to approve the antiviral agent…