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Singapore trades Covid-Zero for ‘Covid Resilience’. How will it work?
Singapore will from September remove quarantine requirements for vaccinated travellers from Germany and Brunei, in a signal to the world it is cautiously reopening while managing the Covid-19 threat.It has…
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How does ‘zero-Covid’ end? From Hong Kong to Australia and New Zealand, questions mount over exit strategy
When Hong Kong announced in June that vaccinated residents would be able to shorten hotel quarantine with a positive antibodies test that would remain valid for three months, frequent business…
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Anti-vaxxers and Covid conspiracists may seem wackier – but pandemic protest isn’t new | Jason Wilson
Resistance to measures to limit disease spread are part of history. How extreme they are depends on what leaders do, and what they allow In the pandemic’s second year, a…
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Yes, Australia craves Covid-normal – but nobody wants that at children’s expense | Katharine Murphy
Scott Morrison is pushing for his Christmas miracle – a Doherty-backed reopening. But will parents be willing to expose their unvaccinated kids? Follow our Covid live blog for the latest…
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Coronavirus live news: Sri Lanka to impose nationwide lockdown; one in 80 people in England had Covid last week
Sri Lanka government bows to intense pressure from experts as hospitals overwhelmed; prevalence in England falls slightly on previous week New Zealand Covid outbreak spreads to Wellington as cases grow…
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9,000 Covid cases linked to Euro 2020 games in mass events scheme
Study paper says England’s progress to final ‘generated a significant risk to public health across the UK’ Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage More than 9,000 Covid…
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North-east Florida becomes hotspot as Covid ravages areas of low vaccination
• Jacksonville hospitals ‘bracing for the worst’ • Acute ICU demand in Florida, Texas, Alabama and Georgia As quickly as one Covid patient is discharged, another waits for a bed…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong’s 21-day quarantine bombshell triggers hotel scramble with availability all but wiped out until mid-September
Travellers needing to book three weeks of hotel quarantine in Hong Kong will probably have to wait until mid-September for availability, according to a Post analysis, after the sudden imposition…
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Nine in 10 in UK still wearing masks despite end of Covid controls
ONS data suggests some Covid-enforced changes to daily life will remain after pandemic subsides Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage About nine in 10 people in the…
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China could reach herd immunity against Covid-19 by end of year, Zhong Nanshan says
China’s top respiratory disease expert Zhong Nanshan on Friday said the country could reach herd immunity against Covid-19 by the end of the year if more than 80 per cent…