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A million jobs in peril as one in 16 UK firms say they are at risk of closure
Research suggests end of furlough scheme could be the UK economy’s ‘inflection point’ A million workers are still employed by businesses at risk of closure over the next three months,…
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Anti-vaxxers using pro-choice slogans make me so angry | Eva Wiseman
Slinging around phrases about body autonomy belittles the pro-choice debate and overlooks issues surrounding pregnancy and fertility I am not an angry person, I get headaches instead. Rage is swallowed…
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Vaccine passports are less a threat to liberty than a mark of solidarity | David Grimes
Anti-vaxxers in France and elsewhere claim personal freedom. But what of brotherhood? In France over the past few weeks, the topic of vaccine passports has induced an avalanche of outrage.…
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Chinese province vows to control Covid-19 outbreak ‘by end of August’
China has reported 53 new symptomatic and 29 asymptomatic coronavirus cases as the authorities vowed to control the country’s month-long outbreak.The symptomatic cases included 24 that were locally transmitted –…
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Australia secures 1m Pfizer vaccine doses from Poland, with half earmarked for Sydney Covid hotspots
530,000 of the new doses to go to 20-to-39-year-olds living in the 12 hotspot LGAs as NSW struggles to contain outbreak Follow our Covid live blog for the latest updates…
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Indonesia’s Covid-hit religious leaders give hope to their flocks
On July 28, Pastor Marselinus Monang Sijabat, the head of the St Lusia Church in Pakpak Bharat Regency in North Sumatra, Indonesia, began to feel decidedly unwell. By August 2,…
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New Covid variants ‘would set us back a year’, experts warn UK government
Vaccine-beating variant is ‘realistic possibility’, say scientists, amid calls for contingency plans to be revealed Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Ministers are being pressed to reveal…
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Coronavirus: number of children hospitalised with Covid-19 in US hits record high
The number of children hospitalised with Covid-19 in the United States hit a record high of just over 1,900 on Saturday, as hospitals across the South were stretched to capacity…
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Labor demands Indigenous vaccine numbers as fears grow over western NSW Delta outbreak
Opposition calls on the Morrison government to ‘come clean’ as Walgett lockdown exposes low vaccination rates Follow the Australia news live blog NSW and ACT hotspots NSW restrictions Vaccine rollout…
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Will we reach herd immunity for the new coronavirus? | David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters
It appears unlikely, but we should try to get as close as possible The Office for National Statistics Covid infection survey estimates that, either through vaccination or infection, an extraordinary…