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Indonesia’s Joko Widodo seeks to balance health and economy during coronavirus pandemic
Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Monday in his annual state-of-the-nation speech that there was a need to strike a balance between health and economic interests amid a surge in…
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We hate Covid but we hate it even more when politicians try to police their way out of a public health crisis | First Dog on the Moon
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NT and ACT Covid update: Canberra extends lockdown and Northern Territory goes into lockdown – video
Darwin, Palmerston, the rural Darwin area and Katherine in Northern Territory enter lockdown on midday Monday until midday Thursday after a new case of Covid-19 was recorded overnight. ACT extends…
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Coronavirus: China’s local transmission crisis eases, eclipsed by imported Covid-19 cases
China has seen far fewer locally transmitted Covid-19 infections than imported cases for four straight days, according to health authorities, a sign the country’s efforts to suppress the transmission of…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong tightens entry rules for arrivals from 16 countries battling Covid-19 resurgence, increasing quarantine to 21 days
This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing.Hong Kong will tighten entry restrictions starting on Friday for…
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Coronavirus: Sydney reports deadliest day and record cases, as roadblocks set up to enforce curbs
Australia’s most populous city recorded its deadliest day of the Covid-19 pandemic on Monday, as hundreds of unarmed military personnel were deployed across Sydney in a desperate attempt to quell…
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Should teachers let their students sleep in class? Yes, some mental health experts say, and point to possible underlying reasons for the behaviour
You know the image from TV and films – the delinquent, defiant student slumped over his desk, fast asleep in class. But some teachers today are making waves on social…
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Global success in fighting flu shows a way out of coronavirus lockdowns
It was obvious, but I had not thought about it until I opened my August edition of Scientific American to the headline: “What Happened to the Flu?”. In short, the…
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Thousands join convoy protests in Bangkok to demand resignation of Thai prime minister
Thousands of protesters in cars and on bikes massed in Bangkok’s central shopping district on Sunday, one of several mobile rallies across Thailand demanding Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha resign over…
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The Guardian view on Sunak’s task: build a society fit for industrial change | Editorial
Post-Covid, the state can help workers find new jobs in blossoming sectors when old jobs in obsolete ones wither away Last August, Rishi Sunak was so confident that Covid was…