COVID-19 Updates
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Chelsea fans will have to show proof of Covid jabs to go to matches
Premier League club says fans will need to be fully vaccinated to attend games this season Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Football fans attending Chelsea FC’s…
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Hong Kong annual winter shopping festival set for first summer outing, targets sales and spending boost
One of Hong Kong’s most popular shopping festivals is set for a summer outing for the first time next Friday, as organisers look to capitalise on the government’s HK$5,000 (US$643)…
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Why Sinovac’s foreign customers are watching Chile’s Covid-19 experience amid mounting concern over Delta variant
Chile is being looked to as a bellwether for Covid-19 control as cases drop dramatically in Latin America’s most vaccinated county, but concerns about the impact of the Delta variant…
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Tokyo Olympics: record number of new coronavirus cases for Japan and host city
Follow our live coverage of day five here.Japan’s daily total of Covid-19 cases topped 9,000 for the first time on Wednesday, with a surge in infections in Tokyo casting a…
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Sydney extends coronavirus lockdown by four weeks, Phuket sandbox at risk
The Australian city of Sydney extended its lockdown by four weeks on Wednesday after an already protracted stay-at-home order failed to douse a Covid-19 outbreak, with the authorities warning of…
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Are Covid jabs ‘Trump vaccines’? No, but I’ll call them that if it means people will take them | Arwa Mahdawi
Trump sycophant Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the ex-president deserves credit for the jab rollout. If that’s the price of herd immunity, so be it Forget Pfizer or AstraZeneca, the hottest…
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Coronavirus: third child of Hong Kong’s Saudi Arabian consulate staff member confirmed to have Covid-19
A third child of a Saudi Arabian consulate employee was Hong Kong’s sole new Covid-19 case on Wednesday, a week after two of her siblings were confirmed as infected.The latest…
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‘Tortured and killed’: US man who sent threatening emails to Anthony Fauci arrested
A man has been arrested and charged in federal court with sending emails that threatened to harm and kill Dr Anthony Fauci, National Institutes of Health Director Dr Francis Collins,…
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New Sydney Covid lockdown restrictions and update to regional NSW coronavirus rules explained
Covid restrictions extended for greater Sydney, with a hard lockdown expanded to Parramatta, Georges River and Campbelltown LGAs. Some restrictions have been eased with some construction to resume and a…
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Excluding the most vulnerable from Covid payments isn’t just cruel – it jeopardises public health | Alison Pennington
These desperate people face continued compulsion to work, expanding the pool of desperate workers seeking precarious, dangerous cash-in-hand and gig work Builders plea for home renovations to be included in…