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UK orders extra Covid vaccines for autumn 2022 booster campaign
Pfizer reportedly asked to supply 35m more doses, with final go-ahead for this year’s programme still awaited Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Ministers have started ordering…
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There is no ‘getting back to normal’ with climate breakdown | Mark Blyth
As the IPCC report makes clear, there are now only unknown and unfamiliar alternative futures that we can choose from Academic papers often take time to leach out into public…
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Victoria Covid exposure sites: full list of Melbourne and regional Vic coronavirus hotspots and trend in cases
Here are the current coronavirus hotspots and Tier 1, 2 and 3 Covid-19 public exposure site locations in Victoria and Melbourne, and what to do if you’ve visited them Victoria’s…
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Latest NSW Covid hotspots: full list and map of Sydney and regional exposure sites and trends in coronavirus cases
Here are the current coronavirus hotspots and Covid-19 public health exposure sites in Sydney and regional New South Wales, and what to do if you’ve visited them. Our analysis and…
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Covid-19 infections rise in eastern China prompts more mass testing
China has tightened Covid-19 control measures in hospitals to prevent infections within health facilities as the country grapples with its most serious outbreak since last year’s peak in the central…
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Singapore’s economy set to grow faster than expected on pandemic rebound
Singapore’s economy is set to expand at a faster clip than the government previously expected as the city state shakes off an uptick in virus cases and looks to reopen…
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Coronavirus: South Korea sees record daily cases; Olympics updates ‘deliberately omitted’ Lambda variant
South Korea on Wednesday reported more than 2,200 new daily Covid-19 cases, its highest number since the pandemic began, as the country grapples with its worst outbreak to date.Despite having…
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Volunteers in Vietnam come to the rescue as coronavirus lockdown hits the vulnerable
When Phuong joined Vietnamese community charity Happy Vegetable Trip over a month ago, she was amazed at the amount of work involved in getting free food to those in need.…
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Larry Brilliant, eradicator of smallpox, proposes ‘ring vaccination’ to combat coronavirus, says herd immunity is not achievable
One of the world’s best known epidemiologists has a stark warning: mass vaccination will not stop a virus, and achieving herd immunity by giving jabs to billions of people is…
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Coronavirus: Thousands need new shots after German nurse ‘swaps vaccine for saline’
Authorities in northern Germany appealed to thousands of people on Tuesday to get another shot of Covid-19 vaccine after a police investigation found that a Red Cross nurse may have…