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UK investigates supplier of NHS PPE over alleged use of forced labour
Malaysia’s Supermax, which has a £316m contract with health service, has been banned from selling in US Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The government has launched…
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Life feels a bit out of kilter, but Covid is not the only reason | Eva Wiseman
Politicians who take with one hand and take away with the other; the joy of star-struck teenagers; the tragedy of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe… The world feels unmoored – is this the…
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Families of coronavirus dead question Japan’s ‘cruel’ stay-at-home recovery policy
Yoshihiko Takeuchi, who ran a small restaurant on the island of Okinawa, told only a few friends he had the coronavirus. When he didn’t answer phone calls from public health…
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Singapore university students start returning to Australia as travel lane opens
A group of international university students arrived in Australia from Singapore on Sunday after nearly a two-year pandemic absence, as a travel bubble between the two countries came into effect.Fully…
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Jollibee drinks up Taiwanese bubble tea shop Milkshop as it ramps up acquisitions to fulfil global ambitions
Jollibee Foods Corporation (JFC), operator of the eponymous fast food chain famous for its crispy fried chicken, is buying a majority stake in Taiwanese company Milkshop International Co Ltd in…
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Australia news live updates: NSW nears 95% first vaccine dose milestone; 1,275 Covid cases, four deaths in Victoria; NT communities in ‘hard’ lockdown
Victoria records 1,275 new local Covid-19 cases and four deaths; NSW records 176 cases and two deaths as state nears 95% first vaccination dose milestone; two more NT communities in…
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How to survive quarantine: people with multiple stints behind them offer tips – and opinions on the rights and wrongs of spending 21 days alone in a Hong Kong hotel room
It is a truth that any article on Hong Kong and Covid-19 must include the line, “some of the toughest quarantine regulations in the world”.But are they in fact the…
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Unusual bedfellows: how gangs are pushing New Zealand’s Covid vaccination drive
Cabinet ministers have been meeting with gang leaders as the country targets an ambitious vaccination rate See all our coronavirus coverage After the needle entered his right arm, the man…
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Coronavirus news of the day as it happened: three in hospital after Rotterdam lockdown protest; UK must not be complacent as cases surge in Europe, experts say
Police fire shots on crowds of rioters in Rotterdam; Covid surge in Europe shows how essential vaccine programme is in UK Unrest in Austria follows announcement of new lockdown plan…
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Craig Kelly awarded Australian Skeptics’ Bent Spoon gong for spreading Covid misinformation
Federal MP declared ‘hands down’ winner of 2021 award for ‘proponent of the most preposterous piece of pseudoscientific or paranormal piffle’ Get our free news app; get our morning email…