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Spanish police hunt for coronavirus-infected Dutch tourists who fled quarantine
Authorities in southwestern Spain have issued an international health alert to locate a group of Dutch tourists who left a hotel where they were meant to isolate for 10 days…
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Coronavirus: mandatory use of ‘Leave Home Safe’ app could kick in as early as next week at all Hong Kong’s restaurants, bars
Customers at all of Hong Kong’s 16,000 bars and restaurants will be required to use the government’s coronavirus contact-tracing app from as early as next week, the Post has learned,…
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‘Storm clouds’ over Europe – but UK Covid rates remain high
Analysis: likes of Slovakia and Austria have worse figures but UK’s have topped EU average for months Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage As Covid infection rates…
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Part of the ‘great resignation’ is actually just mothers forced to leave their jobs | Moira Donegan
During the pandemic, women have exited the labor force at twice the rate of men; their participation in the paid labor force is now the lowest it has been in…
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What’s your six-word memoir of Covid-19 life? Hundreds of examples shared in new book – such as ‘Missing who I didn’t really meet’
A Terrible, Horrible, No Good Year, Larry Smith’s newest “six-word memoir” book about the pandemic, is the perfect gift for any teacher in your life.As any editor can tell you,…
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Taiwan admits Covid-19 failures after victims’ families file compensation claims
The task force in charge of Taiwan’s Covid-19 response has acknowledged that the island could have done better in fighting the disease after 12 families that lost relatives to the…
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Coronavirus: Austria reimposes lockdown, makes vaccination mandatory as cases soar
Austria will reimpose a lockdown for all and make vaccinations mandatory, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced on Friday, making the country the first in the EU to take such stringent measures…
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Coronavirus: Philippines to reopen to foreign tourists; Singapore restarts conferences
The Philippines will soon welcome back foreign tourists, the government said on Friday, as it prepares a partial reopening to vaccinated travellers 20 months after closing its borders to contain…
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Visit Britain, my friends said – just don’t bring the plague back here | Emma Brockes
No one chooses their holiday destination on the basis of domestic policies. But in this case, it’s hard to ignore them Two weeks ago, before travelling from America to Britain,…
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Covid is surging in Europe. What does it mean for the UK?
As the days get shorter and we huddle indoors, memories of 2020’s catastrophic winter are close at hand. Now a new surge of coronavirus cases is spreading across Europe. But…