COVID-19 Updates
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Police and NRL investigate whether St George Dragons players breached Covid lockdown
Gathering at player’s Shellharbour home on Saturday night was banned under NRL biosecurity bubble New South Wales police and the NRL integrity unit are investigating a number of St George…
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Two-thirds of staff unvaccinated at Sydney aged care home dealing with Covid outbreak
Three SummitCare residents among 16 new local Covid cases in NSW as Gladys Berejiklian says case numbers ‘pleasing’ Police and NRL investigate whether Dragons players breached lockdown Restrictions: Qld; WA,…
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Revealed: rise in stress among those working from home
New research finds that those living and working alone during the pandemic have suffered the worst effects of all Working from home during the coronavirus pandemic has caused increased levels…
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Delta variant will cause Covid surges in less-vaccinated US regions, Fauci says
Biden medical adviser tells NBC vaccination disparities will lead to ‘two types of America’ Nightmare Scenario: Trump, Covid and lasting national trauma The US will see surges in cases of…
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Coronavirus: protesters in Brazil call for impeachment of Jair Bolsonaro over vaccine corruption
Protests against President Jair Bolsonaro spread across Brazil on Saturday, a day after a Supreme Court justice authorised a criminal investigation into his response to allegations of potential corruption involving…
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Delta variant: what do we know about the coronavirus strain in Australian children?
Thousands of students in Sydney’s east are isolating. How much do we know about how young people are affected by the Delta variant? And can they be vaccinated? Border closures…
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A cruise cured couple’s Covid-19 cabin fever, and no wonder – the stimulation of meeting new people on board improves your mental health, a study has shown
For Charlotte Wilkinson, a British expatriate in her early 40s in Singapore, the Covid-19-induced lockdown was beginning to give her claustrophobia. “After nine months on the island we needed to…
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Italy busts schemes selling fake EU Covid-19 passes, purported vaccines on dark web
Italian police said on Saturday they had broken up a number of online schemes offering to sell fake European Union digital Covid-19 status certificates or purported coronavirus vaccines.The investigation, coordinated…
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Coronavirus live news: Iran fears fifth wave due to Delta variant; keep some restrictions in England after 19 July, doctors urge
BMA chair says easing restrictions not an ‘all or nothing decision’; Indonesia locks down Bali and Java in effort to curb surging infections Parents angry at shifting government Covid messages,…
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Singing celebrities make film urging Britons to get Covid jab
David Walliams, Jim Broadbent, Nicola Roberts and Asa Butterfield among stars performing in short film Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Celebrities including the comedian David Walliams…