COVID-19 Updates
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‘Forget herd immunity’: Hong Kong experts say better to prepare to live with Covid-19, but more must get their jabs
Reaching herd immunity against Covid-19 is no longer a realistic goal for Hong Kong, medical experts agree, arguing instead for the city to prepare to live with the virus.Their warning…
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Covid: England facing weeks of ‘pingdemic’ disruption to services and food supply
No 10 scrambles to extend self-isolation exemption scheme for critical workers as companies and councils warn of chaos Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage England is facing…
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Atagi changes vaccine advice for Sydney – as it happened
Deputy chief medical officer Michael Kidd says NSW will get additional 50,000 vaccines from national stockpile. This blog is now closed ‘Imprisoned’: south-west Sydney on harsher lockdown and the fight…
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Coronavirus: Australians protest lockdowns; Bali faces oxygen crisis
Thousands of people on Saturday took to the streets of Sydney and other cities in Australia to protest Covid-19 lockdown restrictions amid another surge in cases, and police made several…
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UK holidaymakers booked for France could lose money if they do not go
Some accommodation providers refuse to defer breaks despite Covid quarantine decision See all our coronavirus coverage Holidaymakers who were hoping to head to France in the coming weeks are in…
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Boris Johnson wants to mimic Tony Blair’s project, say No 10 sources
PM wants to echo Blair’s promise of an ‘opportunity society’ and energise those who feel left behind Boris Johnson intends to mimic aspects of Tony Blair’s political project in the…
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Thousands gather across Australia in anti-lockdown protests – video
Anti-lockdown protesters have marched in major Australian cities, as Covid cases spiked to record numbers in Sydney and authorities warned of a ‘continuing and growing problem’. Thousands of angry, unmasked…
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Coronavirus: Singapore’s on-off rules on dining in leave chefs, restaurateurs vexed
Some of Singapore’s top chefs are fed up with the government’s on-again, off-again measures to stop the spread of Covid-19, which include a temporary shutdown of in-person dining.Faced with a…
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Hong Kong cybercrime: ‘pretty girls and strange uncles’ target youngsters spending more time online during pandemic
Henry Huang Qihao learned a lesson in Form One that he never forgot: beware of strangers you befriend online.A gamer he met over the internet tricked him into sharing his…
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Thai volunteers step up as Covid-19 Delta cases send hospitals to ‘point of collapse’
Thanapon Songput, a worker at the non-profit Mirror Foundation, has been arranging to provide oxygen tanks for Covid-19 patients around Thailand’s capital in the past month.The group allocates up to…