COVID-19 Updates
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Latest Sydney Covid lockdown restrictions: new update to NSW coronavirus rules explained
Covid restrictions for greater Sydney, including residents in the Fairfield, Canterbury-Bankstown and Liverpool LGAs, the Central Coast, Blue Mountains and Wollongong have been extended. Can you have visitors? Is mask-wearing…
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Coronavirus Hong Kong: ‘loophole’ could allow vaccinated arrivals to seek extra doses locally, expert warns; city confirms no new cases
Hong Kong health experts have expressed concerns that fully inoculated arrivals from overseas could seek extra Covid-19 jabs in the city, with one infectious disease specialist urging the government to…
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Zoom to pay US$14.7 billion to buy Five9 to shore up video calls as work-from-home becomes the new norm in age of the pandemic
Zoom Video Communications has agreed to acquire Five9 for US$14.7 billion in its largest ever acquisition, targeting a call centre provider to bolster its popular videoconference app against stiffening competition.Zoom…
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Test and trace is still crucial to curbing Covid, but can it cope with ‘freedom’?
The £37bn system is facing rapidly rising cases and waning compliance as social distancing rules are lifted in England Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The £37bn…
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How coronavirus travel restrictions impact your mental health, and an expert’s five tips for how to safeguard it
Cat Rüst and her husband, Stefan, spend hours every day in Hong Kong monitoring websites for the latest updates on travel restrictions. With three of their four children overseas at…
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Coronavirus: South Korean military confronts largest cluster on anti-piracy ship; Singapore asks unvaccinated to stay home
South Korea’s military has recorded in biggest cluster of Covid-19 infections to date, with more than 80 per cent of personnel aboard a destroyer on anti-piracy patrol in the Gulf…
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How Asean’s Covid-19 recovery measures are missing opportunities for a green future
More than a year after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Covid-19 outbreak a public health emergency, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) – a region with a…
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Maskless clubbers party on ‘Freedom Day’ as England lifts Covid-19 rules
London clubbers on Monday flocked to one of the first rule-free live music events since the pandemic began last year, dancing through the night and rejoicing in human interaction as…
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Malaysia’s Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul on the ‘Bendera Putih’ campaign, job losses and standing for election
Malaysia’s Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz spoke to the South China Morning Post on a wide range of issues concerning the National Recovery Plan, a four-phase road map for…
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Malaysia’s road map for reopening to include opposition input, finance minister says
Malaysia’s government, already under fire for its handling of the Covid-19 crisis, will cooperate more closely with the opposition as it implements a new road map for a progressive reopening…