COVID-19 Updates
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Price rises should be short-lived – so let’s not resurrect inflation as a bogeyman | William Mitchell
Until full employment is reached, governments need not cut back on public spending A decade ago the financial press, echoing predictions from mainstream macroeconomists, obsessed about whether governments would run…
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Brexit: Eustice attacks ‘nonsensical’ ban on selling sausages as row with EU over Northern Ireland protocol deepens – live
Latest updates: minister suggests US might side with UK over the Northern Ireland protocol if issue is brought up at this week’s G7 summit Stop Brexit ‘blame game’, Northern Ireland…
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Hearing loss, organ failure, fungus, gangrene: as India’s coronavirus hell eases, new threats emerge
India’s ferocious second wave of coronavirus infections is thankfully receding, but the country’s doctors are now grappling with a new threat: a devastating surge in complications among people who previously…
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Cathay Pacific given an extra year to tap Hong Kong government’s US$1 billion rescue loan facility
The Hong Kong government has extended the drawdown period of the HK$7.8 billion (US$1 billion) rescue loan facility it extended to Cathay Pacific, giving the embattled airline another year to…
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South Australia and Western Australia expand vaccine eligibility – as it happened
Victoria reports two new cases as variant traced to returned traveller. This blog is now closed Victoria’s Covid restrictions ‘on track’ to ease from Friday Support for Coalition’s Covid handling…
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Victoria’s Covid restrictions ‘on track’ to ease from Friday as two cases recorded
Delta strain of Covid-19 identified in Melbourne cases linked to traveller who returned from Sri Lanka and entered hotel quarantine on 8 May Victoria’s new Covid lockdown restrictions explained List…
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Socialising again is hard. Just ask the friend whose visit I ruined | Emma Beddington
I had spent 10 months looking forward to our get-together. And I blew it We’re all catching up with family and friends: a joyful but also fraught process, judging by…
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Before Britain vaccinates children, should it vaccinate the world? | Gaby Hinsliff
There’s a debate about giving UK teenagers the Covid jab. But neglecting low-income countries carries a huge risk They started queuing along the beach road first thing in the morning,…
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Can we vaccinate the world against Covid by the end of 2022?
Achieving herd immunity is possible – and necessary – but requires quick action, say experts Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage As ambitious declarations go – even…
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Hong Kong expected to extend civil servant pay freeze for another year amid struggling economy
Hong Kong is expected to extend a civil servant pay freeze for another year, with the administration citing an economy that has yet to fully recover from the coronavirus pandemic.The…