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Fully vaccinated people account for 1.2% of England’s Covid-19 deaths
ONS figures show 51,281 Covid deaths between January and July, with 458 dying at least 21 days after second dose Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage People…
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How will the Covid vaccine rollout to 12-to-15-year-olds in UK work?
Chief medical officers have given the go-ahead for jabs for secondary school-age children. How was the decision made, and are schools up to the task? Coronavirus – latest updates See…
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Boris Johnson is right that we have to live with Covid, but he’s not making it easy | Simon Jenkins
Managing the pandemic is a balance of personal liberty and public safety, and the government needs to tread a fine line Eighteen months is a long time in Covid politics.…
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New York hospital to stop delivering babies as staff quit over vaccine rules
• Lewis county hospital to suspend service next week • Covid-19 vaccines compulsory for all New York health workers A hospital in upstate New York will at least temporarily stop…
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No need for Covid-19 vaccine booster shots yet for most people, scientists find
Covid-19 vaccines work so well that most people do not yet need another jab, an all-star panel of scientists from around the world said in a review that is likely…
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Covid passports: what are European countries doing?
While plans in England have been shelved, many other European nations have schemes in place Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage While the government has shelved plans…
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Coronavirus: Cathay Pacific gets discrimination warning after firing unvaccinated aircrew; city confirms 1 imported case
Cathay Pacific has been warned by Hong Kong’s equality watchdog that it could be breaching discrimination laws after the carrier fired aircrew who failed to get vaccinated against Covid-19.On Monday,…
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Chinese vaccines’ value clarified by real-world data as exports near 1 billion
China has exported nearly 1 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines to over 60 countries and pledged 2 billion doses this year, but just how effective the Chinese jabs are, especially…
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Coronavirus: Southeast Asian countries choose to reopen, balancing virus with economy
Even as they struggle with one of the world’s worst Covid-19 outbreaks, nations across Southeast Asia are slowly realising that they can no longer afford the economy-crippling restrictions needed to…