COVID-19 Updates
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What does Africa need to make more coronavirus vaccines?
Just 18 months after the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Egyptian vaccine maker Vacsera passed a milestone.Last weekend, the company celebrated the production of its first million doses of a…
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Six diet and lifestyle strategies for post-Covid-19 recovery – Indian doctor’s blueprint to get rid of lingering symptoms
Fellow Covid-19 survivors will immediately connect with the opening line in Dr Vishakha Shivdasani’s book, Covid and Post Covid Recovery. “Surviving is not the same as recovery, doctor. I have…
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‘Inadequate’: Covid breaches on the rise in Australia’s hotel quarantine
Experts say the current system is bound to leak and might be unsustainable in the face of more transmissible strains such as Delta Breaches of Australia’s quarantine system have substantially…
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Amid Delta variant surge, Israel to offer Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine booster shots to adults at risk
Israel said on Sunday it will begin offering a third dose of Pfizer’s vaccine to adults with weak immune systems but it was still weighing whether to make the booster…
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China tightens Covid-19 controls on Myanmar border amid Delta variant fears
Epidemic controls in parts of China’s southwestern province of Yunnan were tightened over the weekend as the region scrambled to contain a Covid-19 outbreak on the border with Myanmar.The city…
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Covid live: public in England expected to wear masks when measures lift; Indonesia reports 1,007 daily deaths
UK minister says mask guidance indoors is set to stay in England; Indonesian death toll rises to total of 66,464 after deadly day Tory MP fears Boris Johnson will delay…
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Tory MP fears Boris Johnson will delay Covid restrictions needed after summer
Exclusive: Dan Poulter, who works for the NHS, says measures will probably have to return in England Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Covid restrictions will probably…
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‘Openly neglected by an obscene administration’: Sean Penn criticises Trump’s handling of pandemic
Premiering new film Flag Day in Cannes, director and actor likens former president’s approach to ‘someone with a machine gunning down communities that were most vulnerable’ Sean Penn has criticised…
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Vaccines minister says mask wearing will be ‘expected’ after 19 July – video
Masks will still be ‘expected’ in indoor, enclosed places when most remaining Covid restrictions are lifted later this month, Nadhim Zahawi, the vaccines minister, says in a toughening up of…
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I’m an intensive care doctor. Covid patients are younger this time
NHS consultant predicts an awful winter with Covid-denier patients, bed shortages and staffing issues Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage “We’re once again seeing increasing numbers of…