COVID-19 Updates
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Has the Delta variant curbed the effectiveness of lockdowns in ‘zero coronavirus’ economies like Australia and Hong Kong?
Each time Covid-19 has flared up, Australia’s major cities have used strict lockdowns to battle cases back down to zero. As the pandemic wreaked havoc elsewhere, the country’s “zero Covid”…
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Dominic Cummings attacks Boris Johnson over coronavirus, alleges plot to oust UK prime minister
Boris Johnson’s former adviser Dominic Cummings has launched new attacks on the British prime minister, accusing him of taking coronavirus lightly and revealing he held conversations about ousting him.In a…
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China is pushing its own coronavirus lab leak theory in latest battle of narratives
Call it a tale of two laboratories: the Fort Detrick Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in the US, the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, and a competing narrative about…
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Red hot US property market to get a further boost when lifting of travel restrictions allows foreign buyers back, analysts say
The return of foreign homebuyers to US real estate once travel restrictions are lifted is likely to further boost prices in one of the world’s hottest property markets, according to…
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Hong Kong Book Fair draws to a close with total of 830,000 visitors; publishers report mixed sales
The Hong Kong Book Fair, one of the world’s largest, drew to a close on Tuesday after attracting 830,000 visitors in total, although publishers reported sales were mixed.Social-distancing rules to…
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Boris Johnson’s ‘get Covid, live longer’ quip an echo of Oxford study
Was prime minister’s anti-lockdown view informed by paper from Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine? An Oxford University paper dubbed by the Daily Mail an “anti-lockdown” plan has emerged as the likely…
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White House calls for social media firms to be ‘held accountable’ for Covid misinformation – live
President walks back ‘Facebook is killing people’ comment White House reiterates: ‘This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated’ 3.01pm BST Following a plunge yesterday brought on by concerns about the…
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Coronavirus live news: 4 million excess deaths in India, study suggests, as official Covid toll passes 414,000
Excess deaths in India are measure of overall impact of pandemic; mainland China records 65 new cases, highest since January India’s excess deaths during Covid ‘could be 10 times official…
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J&J and others reportedly on verge of $26bn US opioid settlement
Drugmaker and distribution companies said to be close to deal Thousands of lawsuits filed by victims of over US opioid crisis The three biggest US drug distribution companies and the…