COVID-19 Updates
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India’s asylum seekers vulnerable to Covid-19 infection with no access to vaccines
Zabi Astanikzai has tried several times in the past month to register himself and his family of five to receive Covid-19 vaccine jabs, but every hospital in New Delhi he…
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Coronavirus: Cambodia to mix Sinovac, AstraZeneca vaccine shots as boosters; Indonesia probes how zoo tigers got infected
Cambodia will begin offering a booster shot against Covid-19, switching between the AstraZeneca and Chinese Covid-19 vaccines in an effort to fight the spread of the coronavirus in the Southeast…
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Johnson’s scapegoating the young over Covid jabs is not a wise tactic | Larry Elliott
If the Conservatives want to win the hearts and minds of the under-25s they’d do better by incentivising vaccination Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The Conservative…
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Coronavirus Hong Kong: vaccine outreach targeting domestic helpers covers more than 260 Indonesians; 3 new imported cases confirmed
More than 260 Indonesians have been vaccinated through the Hong Kong government’s latest outreach programme targeting domestic helpers, while the city on Sunday confirmed three new imported Covid-19 cases.Civil service…
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Covid-19: China considers plans to give most vulnerable people vaccine booster shots
China is considering plans to give vulnerable people a booster shot of Covid-19 vaccine as the Delta variant causes a surge of cases around the world.Shao Yiming, an infectious diseases…
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Covid caution dampens the heady promises of ‘freedom day’
Customers remain hesitant as lockdown habits and the prospect of crowded venues put people off going out Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Statistics suggest that very…
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Australia Covid update: NSW reports 239 new cases and seven ICU patients in their 20s
Gladys Berejiklian says higher vaccination rates the ‘only way to live with Delta’ as Queensland cluster grows to 18 on first day of snap lockdown Follow our Covid live blog…
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NSW records 239 new cases as Queensland reports nine – as it happened
Australia administered 4.5m vaccine doses in July; three million people across Queensland in first full day in lockdown; Victoria records four new local Covid cases. This blog is now closed…
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Daily cases can be falling while the number of people infected still rises | David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters
Just think of filling a bath when you forgot to put the plug in At present, confirmed cases in the UK are declining; by specimen date in England, they fell…
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Uber and Deliveroo discounts to lure young people in UK to get Covid jab
Companies will offer credit and price reductions in government push to boost vaccination rates Cheap taxi rides and discounts from the biggest takeaway companies are to be deployed by the…