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Coronavirus Hong Kong: 200 extra quarantine slots ‘nowhere near enough’ to ease city shortage of domestic helpers
Hong Kong will release another 200 rooms at an official quarantine centre for inbound foreign domestic helpers, but employment agencies have slammed the move as woefully inadequate for easing the…
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Harbin residents told to stay home for the holiday amid Covid-19 outbreak
Residents of Harbin in northeast China have been told to stay home and avoid unnecessary travel during the week-long National Day holiday, as the city grapples with a Covid-19 outbreak.Multiple…
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Inside the San Francisco Bay Area’s pandemic murder surge: ‘No one knows this pain but us’
Guardian analysis reveals region-wide increase in violent deaths, but Black and Latino residents make up majority of victims On the night of 3 September 2020, Sonya Mitchell got a call…
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This fourth grader just wants to go to school. Florida’s risky Covid policies force her to stay home
Governor DeSantis’s ‘soft-on-Covid approach’ makes the classroom too dangerous for immuno-compromised children The only place nine-year-old Reefy Kinder wants to be is in school with her friends. She has missed…
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‘My future is overseas’: Tunisians look to Europe as Covid hits tourism
As the pandemic deals a death blow to an already struggling sector, former workers see little hope for recovery The seafront along the town of Hammamet in Tunisia is deserted.…
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Australia’s reopening unlikely to immediately bring foreign buyers to residential property market
A planned reopening of its borders is unlikely to have foreigners rushing back to Australian residential property, giving locals some space to cope with soaring home prices, analysts said.Last week,…
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Australia can’t get back the time lost to lockdowns – but an extra hour of daylight saving would help | Elias Visontay
It could offer health, economic and environmental benefits while giving us more time outdoors this summer State governments have released reopening roadmaps and are on their way to vaccinating us…
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Coronavirus: Malaysia mulls reopening border; Japan to lift state of emergency
Malaysian authorities are considering reopening the country’s borders amid expectations a ban on interstate travel will ease next month, The Star reported, citing National Recovery Council chairman Muhyiddin Yassin.Ministers this…
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Covid live news: UK records 40 more deaths and 37,960 new cases; Japan to lift state of emergency
UK records 40 coronavirus-linked deaths in the past 24 hours; Japan to lift Covid state of emergency in all regions at the end of September Covid has wiped out years…
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Biden officials move to protect Dreamers brought to US as children – live
Proposal designed to ‘preserve and fortify’ Obama-era Daca program President Biden given booster amid confusion over eligibility House aims to pass $1tn bipartisan infrastructure bill Sign up to receive First…